TMA this month
Discuss July TMA
Monday, 5 Jul 2010, by Anglican Media
Women and gay people fit to lead
Integrity of Scriptures challenged by US move
Dr Cleary bows out to music, praise and a cry for justice
New Synod member? Help is at hand!
Australians have 'written off' church: Bp Parkes
Bishopscourt historian required
Mission surge urged by Fresh Expressions couple
Dr John Davis to move back to Wangaratta
Archdeacons' moves in Melbourne
Readers' letters: The leadership cost of TMA's independence
Indigenous priest in NT recognised for 40 years' service
Abp Sentamu says Jesus is on trial in the modern world
Spong's 'last word' old hat and without hope
The Vertical Self a guide to faith development in a self-obsessed age
Vale Lesley Oliver
Christian yoga helps care for our earthen vessels
Mother & Child - motherhood's agony powerfully portrayed
MasterChef plates up a challenge for the insecure cook
Sea Patrol has plenty of hard knocks, and plenty of stupid
Hostility to women in Melbourne diocese?
Wednesday, 16 Jun 2010, by Anglican Media
Men lead, women obey?
There is a growing backlash against women being treated as equals in churches around Australia, with some women being pressured not to become priests. Barney Zwartz reports on the battle looming. [The Age]Barney Zwartz has written a long article quoting the experience of people from both sides of the debate in Melbourne.
Previously:
Numbers of young men now being ordained are hostile to women in ministry, according to the Revd Dr Kevin Giles.
"...In earlier years, Evangelicals in Melbourne had been leaders in support for women's ordination through the advocacy of Ridley College principal, Bible scholar Leon Morris. But since 1995, the atmosphere had changed significantly, Dr Giles told a meeting at St Mark's, Templestowe last month ...
... The view that God had put men in charge of the church and the home had increased in recent years, he said. The strategy of not mentioning it in the hope that the opposition to women would go away had meant that the situation has just got worse, he added.
But the church was healthier when men and women shared leadership, said Dr Giles, a retired Melbourne vicar and scholar who has written extensively in support of women's full equality.
Dr Giles said that ordination was just the tip of the iceberg, as he outlined his concern for the damage that could be done through the view that men should be "head" of the home.
"In the home this teaching can encourage men to be selfish, or even to abuse their wives," he explained. "Percentage-wise, there is more abuse in the home in churches that teach male headship.""
The article prompted a strong response from our readers. "The current new wave of anti-women clergy puts the Church at odds with
moves in society to treat women equally with men at work, at home and in
public life," says Alan Nichols in our Readers' Letters this month. However, Clare Rogers, Chair of the Board of Ridley College, says "Ridley Melbourne is proud to be associated with leading women in
ministry".
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Discuss May TMA
Monday, 3 May 2010, by Anglican Media
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Christians must stand up for refugees, says advocate
The case for God
Wednesday, 31 Mar 2010, by Anglican Media
Melbourne will be hosting a global atheists' convention in March.
In this month's special TMA supplement, "The Case For God," Dorothy Lee presents key arguments from Rowan Williams’ commentary on the Creeds, Tokens of Trust; Alister McGrath responds to Richard Dawkins; Roy Williams, author of God, Actually, considers how science supports faith in God; and Colin Goodwin outlines Aquinas’ arguments for the existence of God.
In addition, Andrew McGowan and Peter Adam profile two ‘Heroes of the Faith’, and Roland Ashby reflects on the problem of suffering.
What do you think? Has the case been made adequately? How would you make the case? Do you think it needs to be made?
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More reading on our site:- Belief in an age of unbelief
- The impossibility of atheism [blog and discussion]
- Christopher Hitchens' illogical atheism
- Atheists - don't confuse secularism with atheism
- ‘Ivory tower atheist’ shines selective searchlight
- Andrew Hamilton: Christopher Hitchens and ethics without God
Discuss TMA April 2009
Thursday, 2 Apr 2009, by Anglican Media
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Gov’t climate change response ‘inadequate’
Discuss TMA March 2009
Friday, 6 Mar 2009, by Anglican Media
Ministering in the ashes
Friday, 6 Mar 2009
A strategic MAP for Greensborough
Friday, 6 Mar 2009
Readers' letters - Fires support 'streets ahead'
Sunday, 1 Jan 2006
This month's online stories from TMA - have your say.
Friday, 6 Feb 2009, by Anglican Media
The naming of evil and the need for salvation
Friday, 6 Feb 2009
Fresh connections – the spiritual foundation
Friday, 6 Feb 2009
Readers' letters: ABC needs specialists to cover religious complexities
Friday, 6 Feb 2009
Billy Elliot – from darkness to transcendent beauty
Empty ritual or outreach?
Friday, 5 Dec 2008, by Anglican Media
Weddings, funerals and baptisms are often times of tension between liturgical integrity and generous evangelism and hospitality. How can this be resolved?
Background:
- Baptism requirement a ‘barrier’ to marriage ministry
Synod assented to a provisional canon of General Synod which seeks to amend the requirement for at least one of the bride and groom to be baptised for their wedding to be conducted by an Anglican Minister. - Letters in response to Dr Muriel Porters' The Death of the Funeral, TMA Nov:
Empty ritual
I was moved by Muriel Porter’s article, The death of the funeral (TMA, November) and her recognition of the emptiness of a secular funeral service. However, it’s not the loss of religious trappings and ritual that distresses me, but the loss of a living, transforming faith in Jesus Christ in whose name such services are conducted. The hypocrisy of a funeral with all the Anglican words and rituals, but without trust in Jesus lived out in obedience and love, can be more distressing than a completely secular funeral.
Dr Porter mourns that the church has lost its role as “custodian of our society’s rites of passage”. The symbolism and rituals and tradition of the Christian faith are worthless if there is no meaningful, living faith underpinning them. When people look at church-goers and fail to see that Christianity makes any difference to their lives, is it any wonder that they do not find religion attractive?
Fiona McLean
Mont Albert NorthFunerals lose focus
Muriel Porter’s description of the secular funeral she experienced (TMA November 2008) could, with little real difference, be applied to what happens in many of our churches. There too she will find sentimental claptrap, inappropriate eulogies, mawkish doggerel and an overall focus on the life of the deceased rather than what is essentially the principal focus of Christian funerals – the promise of eternal life in Jesus Christ. Ministers really need to decide whether they are simply customers of the funeral industry, captive to the sentiments of the bereaved, or representatives of a faith that acknowledges the reality of death but not its ultimate victory.
Hugh McGinlay
Thornbury
This month's online stories from TMA - have your say.
Wednesday, 5 Nov 2008, by Anglican Media
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Former Naval Chaplain to be the new Dean of Melbourne
September TMA now online
Monday, 8 Sep 2008, by Anglican Media
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Project Officer appointed for youth initiative
August TMA now online
Friday, 15 Aug 2008, by Anglican Media
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Bishops call world to ‘keep promise’
June TMA now online
Monday, 9 Jun 2008, by Anglican Media
TMA May now online: Historical day as first woman bishop appointed in Victoria
Tuesday, 6 May 2008, by Anglican Media
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All TMA stories online this month:
Historic day as first woman bishop appointed in Victoria
From chrysanthemums to cholera
Monday, 5 May 2008
Programs ‘bend the mind to the god of avarice’
April TMA online this week: Easter calls us to new community.
Monday, 7 Apr 2008, by Anglican Media
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The Christ Files – Jesus is more than objective fact
March TMA now online: Historic day offers chance of healing
Monday, 3 Mar 2008, by Anglican Media
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TMA February now online - Dr Freier prays in the heart of the city
Monday, 4 Feb 2008, by Anglican Media
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Dr Freier prays in the heart of the city
Lenten study part of Abp’s prayer initiative
Concerns raised over abortion paper
Being the ‘face of God’ in places of healing
Childhood campaign gains momentum
Retiring registrar ‘optimistic’ about Church
Western society’s tide is turning – Hugh Mackay
Parishes invest heavily in water savings
School’s in for a small but faithful parish
A creative approach to a new ministry
Bishop helps open door to democracy in Congo
Australia must repent of its ‘original sin’
Readers' letters - Bipartisan ‘sorry’ needed
GAFCON may undermine Lambeth, says bishop
‘I will never forget my sense of outrage’
A new mood aboard this ‘runaway train’
Sitting with Scripture in the gaze of God
Haunting, transcendent music to invoke the Spirit
Golden Compass – good v tyranny and control
Telling the surprising story of Aboriginal Victorians
O’Leary provides lyrical soul food to mull over
TMA online this month
Monday, 10 Dec 2007, by Anglican Media
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November TMA out now
Monday, 12 Nov 2007, by Anglican Media
All November's online stories can be found here. TMA covered a lot of General Synod stuff this month, but because we'd already published it on the General Synod blog, I haven't reproduced it on the TMA site. But feel free to discuss all the General Synod news here anyway!
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TMA October 2007
Monday, 8 Oct 2007, by Anglican Media
All the stories online this month
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September 2007
Thursday, 6 Sep 2007, by Anglican Media
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