An article, ‘Challenging Chappies – Australia’s atheist prime minister wants chaplains in schools,’ has been posted on Christianity Today’s website.
Thanks to Michael Bird for the link and for his own (typically amusing) observation about Australian political attitudes to school Chaplaincy:
I think that for many Americans this would be just mind blowing to even imagine government funding of religious chaplains in State schools. Despite being a very secular country, programs like this are popular and successful because these chaplains are the like the Salvation Army of the school yard. The school chaplains are supported by both sides of politics and the only party that opposes the scheme are the Greens (who probably would prefer to see the funds spent on teaching children how to grow, sell, and use cannabis without their parents or the police finding out about it).
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