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The story of divine love
A secular thinker traces how the idea of divine love once bound people together — and asks what replaces it when belief fades.
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The way the Church becomes Church
Courses and timetables treat initiation as a service delivered, like getting the washing machine repaired. Accompaniment, not added hurdles, offers a gentler, more personal road into the life of the Church.
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Ultimately abusive power never wins
Babylon called its violence holy, and Genesis called it folly. The pattern still repeats wherever power wraps cruelty in sacred language.
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Claiming public space: who gets left out?
Christianity, indigenous spirituality and secular values compete for public space. Compliance divides us, and connection is what holds us together.
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When questions get louder than fear, power starts to listen
Citizens who once stayed quiet now press leaders with hard questions, and a government unused to accountability has begun to respond.
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The quiet virus that drains family and group life
Petty talk and gossip slips into families and groups with speed and stealth, hardening hearts and sapping the energy that keeps people together.
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The Church — a test of Christ’s compassion
Compassion takes shape in ordinary human lives, in small acts of presence that make divine love something people can touch.
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The synod that forgot what it heard
When a process omits its own findings, listening begins to look like selective hearing, and discernment begins to look manufactured.
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Stories of suffering need more than outrage
Personal stories keep policy human, but they can hide trade-offs, breed self-righteousness and blind us to the imperfection of every system.
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Is the Church’s case against gay sex biblical?
Genesis 19 is ambiguous, the Gospels are silent on homosexuality, and the wider Bible ties Sodom to hostility toward guests.
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