Last night the ABC television show ‘Hungry Beast’ featured a piece on three men who have dealt with the temptation of homosexual behaviour while coming from a Christian background. Three very different experiences are shown. It would be understandable if you have not watched the show, it can be pretty rough going at times. One …

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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 …

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