External resources
Capital punishment
- Nguyen Tuong Van and punishment by death - Andrew Cameron
- Read the Reverend Professor Frank Brennan's address delivered in St David's Anglican Cathedral Hobart for the 2007 Tasmanian Opening of the Law Year: Self interest, the death penalty, David Hicks and Australian values
Justice
- 'How we treat the poorest and most vulnerable among us is the measure of the greatness of any nation ... '
- See the website of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas for their statement of principles about justice
Crisis in Anglicanism precipitated by consecration of an openly gay bishop
- Anglican Bishop N.T. (Tom) Wright of Durham, England, is one of the world's leading scholars on the New Testament, and especially on the letters of Paul. He is also a member of the Eames Commission currently pondering the crisis within Anglicanism caused by the consecration of an openly gay bishop in the United States. Read an interview with Bishop Wright in the National Catholic Reporter
'Just' war
- Just War Revisited - Archbishop of Canterbury's Lecture to the Royal Institute for International Affairs
Before the war with Iraq
- Is Attacking Iraq Moral? Christian leaders disagree, too. This article from Christianity Today Magazine, September 2002, has a variety of American Christian leaders discussing the issues surrounding war with Iraq and the application of the doctrine of 'just war'.
- Case for war yet to be made - England House of Bishops - 15 January 2003
Refugees and asylum seekers
- Tasmanians for Refugees facilitated by Anglicare Tasmania
- Asylum seekers in Australia - this is a list of links to information on the Web about asylum seekers in Australia. There's also a list of books and a separate page of news stories.)
Sexuality
- The Gift of Sexuality: A Theological Perspective: Report of the Theology Committee of the House of Bishops of the Episcopal Church (PDF) - March 2003
- Homosexuality in the New Testament - by Glenn Davies
Ecumenism
- If you're interested in the national ecumenical and public role of the church then you might like to read the speech of the retiring president of the Uniting Church at their National Assembly in July 2003.
Racial vilification laws
Religious vilification laws can undermine the very freedom they seek to protect - freedom of thought, conscience and belief.
Premier Bob Carr