Zadok Perspectives Issue 72

Spirit at Work by Simon Bibby

Reflections on an Anzac Day Service by Doug Hynd

More than spectators by Dave Collis

Politics of Grace: an interview with Tim Costello

Learning from Africa: an interview with Michael Cassidy

Approaching Politics by John Rees

Jean Carter: Sister of the Son by Tom Mayne

Moulin Rouge
Shrek
Review by Julian Jenkins

No more shall we part: Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Review by John Tait

The Australian Legend and its Discontents
Review by Frank Rees

Australian Religious Communities
Review by Gordon Preece

S114B The Crux of the Struggle: the Cross as Charisma.
By Dave Andrews
Spring 2001
This is the second in a three-part series exploring the place of the cross in the process of transformation. There are no perfect metaphors, no perfect interpretations, and no perfect explanations for what it was that Christ did for us on the cross. Each of the metaphors and each of the interpretations are finite attempts to plumb the depths of an indefinable event that defies full explanation. The author affirms that instead of rejecting the metaphors, we would be better off if we were to reframe our interpretation of ransom and sacrifice in the light of the revelation of God’s love for us.

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S115 Counting the Bodies: Aboriginal Deaths in Colonial Australia.
By John Harris
Spring 2001
A significant debate in Australia concerns Aboriginal history. Some allege that accounts of the massacre of Aboriginal people are mostly fabrications. “Counting the bodies” affirms that there was an immense and appalling reduction in the Aboriginal population during the first 130 years of European settlement. The three major causes of Aboriginal depopulation were massacre, sexual abuse and disease. Closer to the 19th century and early 20th century, writers knew what had been done to Aboriginal people and consciously revised history to exclude their story. Recent historians have been trying to write back into history the story of Aboriginal Australians that has been hidden for so long.

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