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by · 29 March, 2018

Micah calls Australians to confront uncomfortable realities about the poor this Easter

News that the Turnbull government is considering slicing 10 percent - $400 million a year - from the overseas aid budget is deeply problematic for Christians. Like previous and successive aid cuts, it will once again comfort the privileged and afflict the poor. What are we to make of such...

by · 27 March, 2018

Myanmar Rohingya: Responding to God’s call to love ‘the widow, the orphan and the refugee’

Labelled as one of the world’s most persecuted minorities, the Rohingya people are not even recognised by their own government as one of Myanmar’s 135 ethnic groups. Denied citizenship since 1982, they are trapped, unable to leave Rakhine state without government permission.

by · 13 March, 2018

Jesus says, ‘Love your neighbour’: So what does Manus say about us?

Towards the end of 2017 Micah’s Executive Director, Tim Costello, travelled to Manus Island to spend time with the men in the centre there. Tim tells the story of Karam, a Kurdish Iranian who was forced to flee the persecution he faced for publishing poetry in Kurdish. At the time...

by · 27 February, 2018

Suffering in Syria: Where to start when the world seems hopeless

As Christians, God calls us to have a voice. How do we find ours when the world seems so hopeless? Lucy offers us a way forward based on her own deep searching, as she processes the latest horrific news out of Syria.

by · 13 February, 2018

Do Australian Christians ignore Indigenous justice for overseas justice?

It has been a historic week for all Australians as we consider progress against The Closing The Gap Strategy, launched to address Indigenous disadvantage in 2008. Though for many Australian Christians (including our own Campaign Director, Matt Darvas) the week has pricked something deep within us. An uncomfortable truth that...

by · 05 April, 2017

Where are the prophets today?

Jesus and the Prophets didn’t just speak words of judgement, comfort and hope. They embodied those words, sometimes via symbolic acts and sometimes within their own life experiences such as marriage (Hosea), parenthood (Isaiah) and economic transactions (Jeremiah). And just as the biblical prophets made risky performances in the public...

by · 22 March, 2017

World Water Day: Looking at Sustainable Development Goal #6

Today (March 22nd) is World Water Day, and on Sunday many of us heard the story of Jesus and the Woman at the Well in our church services. Water is a resource central to all life, but one many millions of people have poor access to. Rudolph Cleveringa (IPS) reports...

by · 22 February, 2017

A reflection on Luke 13

Reading: Luke 13: 1-5, 10-19 "13 At that very time there were some present who told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. 2 He asked them, “Do you think that because these Galileans suffered in this way they were worse sinners than all other Galileans? 3 No, I tell...

by · 18 January, 2017

Inspiring Justice

In honour of Martin Luther King Jnr. Day, here are 25 of his most inspiring quotes about the pursuit of justice for all:

by · 06 December, 2016

Sermon on Loving Our Pacific Neighbours

Jessica Morthorpe reflects on her experience of Voices for Justice 2016 in this sermon delivered at Rowethorpe Uniting Church, Bentley WA on Sunday 4th of December. Reading: Romans 13: 8 - 10 Tinaai Teaua, Kiribati Vasiti Tebamare, Kiribati Rev James Bhagwan, Fiji

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