Phillip Jensen offers a some observations about Samuel Marsden, New South Wales’ second colonial Christian chaplain. To say that Marsden has been a controversial figure in historical evaluation is an understatement. His additional role in the judiciary saw him given the title of the ‘Flogging Parson’. For a time, history recorded something of a disparity …
Scott Clark charges that moralism continues to make its way into Christian theology. The trick is to use the right words, but change the meanings, or just mix the various elements of orthodox belief in unorthodox ways. Clark observes that: “In Reformed circles moralism often persists undetected because it begins by sounding orthodox but like …
An Australia Day reflection. There are two statements/assertions that I run into from time to time. The first of these stems from Pedro Fernández de Quirós, a Portuguese explorer and devout Roman Catholic, who named the lands, previously known as terra australis incognito, either La Australia del Espiritu Santo (The Great South Land of the …
So, for those of you who choose to thank God (in a particular way for the incarnation of ‘the Lord Jesus, the Saviour of his people) today: ‘Merry Christmas’. May we all keep thanking God for the incarnation of the Lord Jesus, the Saviour of his people, every other day as well. (Probably with less …
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