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Spirituality - a Potential Source of Wisdom for Bioethics, and the Regulation of Genetic Engineering Technology
We welcome Greg Hughson back to our site. Greg is the Ecumenical Chaplain at Otago University. He himself is from a scientific background, and this article is a thoughtful and stimulating contribution to immensely important issues that exercise the minds of scientisits and theologians alike.
An eagle's eye view of the G8 summit
Margaret Parkinson 7/05
Justice
Donald Phillipps applies some relevant texts
Worse and worse under GWB
Ken Russell's disquiet
Fahrenheit 9/11
Ken Russell's response to Michael Moore's film
Old faiths, new world
David Lange's 8/04 presentation at Otago University
Power, terror, and leadership
Revd Ken Russell offers a reading of George W. Bush
A better way?
Ken Russell underlines the need for Restorative Justice.
Project Aqua
Elizabeth Brooke-Carr is horrified at Meridian's proposal.
Why no transparency?
Ken Russell asks the question.
Appointment of a gay bishop
Bishop Penny Jamieson reflects on the controversy.
The need for fair terms of food trade
Well-off countries must be practical in their concern for the poor.
so says Bishop Penny Jamieson
The world's thirst for oil
often hurts society's poorest, Bishop Penny Jamieson says
Saddam out, economic bondage in
Bishop Penny Jamieson's ODT column of April 22, 2003.
Embedded journalists
Bishop Penny Jamieson reflects.
Hope in protests as war shifts the focus
Does this begin the globalisation of democracy? – Bishop Penny Jamieson
What's with that?
Melanie Bunce: "If only George W. Bush would do the same."
Pro-war rhetoric is atheism
Dr Peter Matheson's address to a Melbourne peace vigil.
Same old tune in different time
Melanie Bunce identifies with sixties protest.
Working for justice
Dr Gerald Pillay draws on his South African experience.
A fable for our times
A contribution from Aesop
American Methodist Bishop in anti-war TV commercial
Associated Press news item, Jan 23, 2003
It's the Oil
Stan Lusby provides background to current world events.
The Death of the Oil Economy
Ted Trainor explains the prospects.
A modern-day fable
Penny Jamieson sees political implications in The Lord of the Rings.
Raising Cain
Some elements of worship may promote violence, suggests Colin Gibson.
Doublethink dominates discussions over Iraq
Chris Trotter underlines the 1984 connections.
Statement on the threat of war against Iraq
A joint statement by NZ Church Leaders.
Twin Towers anniversary
Bishop Penny Jamieson notes that the world has hardly changed.
Every bloke needs a meaningful hobby
Elspeth McLean offers America's First Lady some advice.
Western 'free trade' puts much of Africa in chains
Bishop Penny Jamieson.
Fund-raising, or gambling on our future?
Bishop Penny Jamieson.
The media turns a blind eye to 'routine' violence
Bishop Penny Jamieson.
Not meeting the gold
standard
Bishop Penny Jamieson.
Weighing options to regain
security
Bishop Penny Jamieson.
Sparing the rod to save te
child
Bishop Penny Jamieson.
Time to think globally for
global good
Bishop Penny
Jamieson.
Race for the moral low
ground
Bishop Penny Jamieson asks: Are
we becoming what we hate?
A small blow against
globalization
Bishop Penny Jamieson reflects
on the People's Bank.
Interchurch Commission on Genetic
Engineering
submission to the Royal Commission on
Genetic Modification, November 2000
Globalization -- there are alternatives
World Council of Churches view.
Engendering jubilee -- a new vision
Debra Vitt's exploration of an important theme.
Designer Genes
A compilation of relevant papers, reviewed by Greg Hughson.
WTO not needed -
in Seattle or anywhere.
Background.
Monsanto earns the 1998 Roger
Award
News release.
Monsanto earns the 1998 Roger
Award
Basis for the judgment.
Corporate Code of
Responsibility
drawn up by the Campaign Against Foreign
Control of Aotearoa.
Nine fallacies
Selwyn Dawson challenges economic and social misconceptions.
The New Right reforms have been a dismal
failure
Kerry Grundy, an Otago
University researcher,
gives a factual analysis of our
experience of the last 15 years.
Cry shame!
Kerry Grundy expresses outrage at the latest attack on the vulnerable in our
society.
Social irresponsibility - where does
the blame lie?
Wesley Wellington Mission tells you what you
have not been told
about the proposed Code of Social
and Family Responsibility.
What NZ's 'economic
miracle' means to too many New Zealanders.
Who owns New Zealand?
Key facts assembled by the Campaign Against Foreign Control of
Aotearoa
Crossing boundaries
William Elderton's annotated list of teenage novels on issues of
sexual abuse
Matike
This title points to pages covering gay and lesbian issues in
church and society.
The Community of Women and Men in Church and
Society
A standing committee of the national
church, based in Dunedin.
Encouraging inclusive
structures and processes within the church;
responding to
gender-related justice issues in the wider community.
Who cares?
There is an intimate connection between the quest for social justice
and the quest for the healing of the planet.
May the anger of Christ be mine
(song)
In a world of restless change
standing for love and faith and justice . . .
Pharaoh's Chief
Executive (Genesis 47:13-26)
The rich and powerful exploit and expropriate the poor -
it's not a new story.
Keep the women in
line (1 Timothy)
We take a
look at what this author (who was not Paul) has to say.
Good News to the Poor
Donald Phillipps reviews a significant book by Theodore W.
Jennings
on John Wesley's evangelical
economics.
The Peoples Charter
The joint statement of a diverse community of communities
concerned for social justice in Aotearoa New Zealand and
beyond.
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