Publications List

Toni Hassan: Smartphones

26 Sep 2019  |  Author: Toni Hassan  | Theme: Public theology and ethics; The Arts, Sciences and Culture

Without thinking about it much, children mimic their parents. It was when my husband — a veteran journalist — and I found ourselves glued to our phones for work at home, and tweeting compulsively, that I began to worry about what it was teaching our kids.
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Toni Hassan: Alan Jones

26 Sep 2019  |  Author: Toni Hassan  | Theme: Civil society and politics; Leadership and institutions

Toni Hassan argues that remarks by controversial radio DJ Alan Jones represent a public health issue and that he should be taken off air.
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Douglas Hynd Discipleship, Wealth, Worship

13 Sep 2019  |  Author: Douglas Hynd  | Theme: Public theology and ethics; Religions and dialogue

Review of Hargaden, Kevin. Theological Ethics in a Neoliberal Age: Confronting the Christian Problem with Wealth, Eugene, Oregon: Cascade Books, 2018.
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Roadside theology

10 Jan 2019  |  Author: Bill Leadbetter  | Theme: Public theology and ethics; Civil society and politics

In discussions of the role of religion in the public square, it is generally grand questions of conscience which take the focus of analysis. Mostly we discuss, indeed parse, such moral dilemmas as abortion, euthanasia, refugee policy, or crime and punishment. These are important, and fundamental ethical discussions about both who we are as a society, and who we are as Christians. Implicit in all of this discussion is the proposition that theology has something to say, and that what it has to say must apply both to such matters as these, but also to the less pressing but more mundane – indeed, the more immediately relevant.
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One Political Bright Spot

04 Jan 2019  |  Author: Toni Hassan  | Theme: Civil society and politics; Leadership and institutions

There was at least one bright spot on Capital Hill before parliamentarians flew out of Canberra last week. It was the passing of Australia’s first federal law to address modern slavery in the things we buy. It was the passing of Australia’s first federal law to address modern slavery in the things we buy.
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