Zadok Perspectives Issue 94

Tune off / Tune in / Drop in by Alison Sampson

Renewing Creation's energy by Peter Crabb

Human scale and human pace: thinking about 'everyday technology' by Ian Packer

Building Babylon: technology and Christian faith byJan Hext

The nuclear power question in Australia 2007 by Ian Hore-Lacy

The consequences of nuclear power by Helen Caldicott

BOOK & FILM REVIEWS

Babel
The architecture of happiness
Palestine: Peace not apartheid
Performing the faith: Bonhoeffer and the practice of non-violence
Sylvia
Technology reviews

S152 Living Christianly in a world of technology.
Pt II Discerning the technologies of everyday life.
By Ian Barns.
Autumn 2007
In part I of this essay (S144) Ian proposed that we should consider the way technology influences our thinking and our relationships and argued that technological development tends towards the comodification of life and an instrumentalist approach to the world. Here in part II, he considers how we can live faithfully as Christians within a technological millieu. He examines four everyday activities: obtaining our food, caring for our bodies, being at work, and communicating with others. He then outlines a framework for communal Christian reflections on living with technology and explores how this could be applied to those four areas of life.

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S153 Protestants, procreation and the Pill: an ethical examination.
By Rev Megan Curlis-Gibson
Autumn 2007
The author traces the history of the protestant approach to contraception and to sex within marriage from the early church era through to Augustine, Aquinas, the Anglican Lambeth conferences early in the twentieth century and Karl Barth in 1945, finding that official church acceptance of contraception has been historically recent and arose more from sociological considerations than from theological convictions. She challenges the broad acceptance of the Pill on ethical grounds, arguing that it cannot be shown always to act prior to conception. She urges Christian couples to give serious consideration to the ethical implications of their choices regarding family planning.