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Ping pong power against injustice

QLD Synod Webmaster — Sat, 01 Oct 2016 23:02:40 +0000

It may be a perennial party favourite but ping pong is at the heart of a nation-wide campaign to help end the exploitation and trafficking of young people throughout South East Asia. Ben Rogers reports on the Ping Pong-A-Thon and one Uniting Church teenager picking up the paddle to make a difference. In 2011, a ...

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The gospel according to Pasolini

QLD Synod Webmaster — Sat, 01 Oct 2016 04:14:00 +0000

Since his violent death—shrouded in the kind of controversy that plagued his working life—history has yet to produce a cultural figure quite like Pier Paolo Pasolini. Known in his native Italy for his reputation as a Marxist, gay atheist, Pasolini stretched the definition of a multi-hyphenate to its limit when it came to his professional ...

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Ken Ham: A Queenslander with all the Answers

QLD Synod Webmaster — Mon, 08 Aug 2016 11:37:51 +0000

When it comes to divisive Australian Christians, they don’t get much bigger than Ken Ham. Ben Rogers interviews the Queensland creationist who is grabbing news headlines for his $100 million Noah’s ark replica. The recent public unveiling of Ken’s Ark Encounter attraction in Kentucky, North America, brought the kind of media attention you’d expect from ...

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Expanded: Ken Ham in his own words

QLD Synod Webmaster — Fri, 05 Aug 2016 02:07:08 +0000

When you construct a gargantuan $100 million Noah’s ark replica in the heart of America’s “Bible belt”, chances are you’ll gain attention. Lots of it. Ken Ham is the controversial driving force behind the Ark Encounter and sure enough, the media has flocked to Kentucky, North America to cover his impressive feat of taking the ...

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August 2016 Journey now available

QLD Synod Webmaster — Mon, 01 Aug 2016 00:50:18 +0000

This edition brings profiles of two Christian Queenslanders who offer radically different perspectives on faith: Ken Ham (page 6) and Val Webb (page 10). While Val emphasises the importance of questioning in faith and brings an unmistakable progressivism to Christianity, Ken has an intense certainty in the Old Testament as literal history and is getting ...

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July 2016 Journey now available

QLD Synod Webmaster — Mon, 27 Jun 2016 03:35:49 +0000

The Rogers household has a laugh whenever politicians or government bureaucrats talk about ideologically-neutral educational material in schools. If some are so desperate to remove religion from schools, then shouldn’t they prioritise thinking about how the religion of the “state” is presented to children? The way in which government has omnipotent authority to exempt itself ...

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The Trial of a Country Donkey: Au Hasard Balthazar

QLD Synod Webmaster — Wed, 04 May 2016 00:00:09 +0000

Noted for his austere formal style and unique approach to performance, French filmmaker Robert Bresson is globally celebrated as a master of the cinematic arts. He has inspired generations of filmmakers including Martin Scorsese, Andrei Tarkovsky, the Dardenne brothers and Lars von Trier, and renowned screenwriter Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver) stated he was the “most ...

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