Zadok Catalogue 2007

World Aid, Development. & International and Interfaith Relationships

Compassion by proxy.
David Fagg
Zadok Perspectives 85, Summer 2004
We are content to sub-contract our responsibility to others through taxation, and perhaps donate extra monies to charities, employing professionals as our proxies.

Slogans, Solidarity, Spirituality.
David & Sue Lyon
Zadok Perspectives 82, Autumn 2004
Reflections from the World Social Forum, January 2004. Western development models are dangerously devoid of spirituality. A Christian view sees humans as spiritual beings who have material experiences: a crucial contribution from south to north could be the reintegration of the spiritual, not a feel good commodity, but a connection with the unseen God.

Apathy on trial: finding Australia's identity in partnership with the world's poor.
Dave Collis
Zadok Perspectives 84, Spring 2004
Why is Australia's partnership with the world's poor seen to be a national chore? If Australia's power for political rhetoric was taken away, and our character was judged on the basis of our funding priorities, what would we see? Would the Federal Budget say the we care about the world's poor?

We're all boat people: a review essay on refugees.
Gordon Preece
Zadok Perspectives 84, Spring 2004
Manne and Corlett paint a damming picture of the near eternal limbo of mandatory detention and the never-ending torment of temporary protection.

Ecotourism as Tentmaking and Development: A case study in innovative mission.
By Daniel Johnson
Zadok Paper S130, Autumn 2004
Tentmakers are described in this paper as Christians who use their work to support their Christian witness. The support may be with finances, access to another culture, and/or a context for service. Witness may be by evangelism, mercy, and/or justice. One option is for a a tentmaking entrepreneur to start a business, minister through its contacts, and operate it with ministry and service goals. Ecotourism is particularly appropriate for Christian entrepreneurs because they can help people enjoy God's creation of Indonesia's diverse environmental and cultural beauty. They could facilitate employment generation, training, advocacy, and a more just and sustainable industry. Furthermore, their business could bring people to Indonesia on cultural exchange tours for learning and community service.

Media Myths & the Middle East: the Achilles heel of Christians
by Christopher Davey
Zadok Paper S128, Summer 2003
Under the Bush administration, Christians are having unprecedented influence on Middle Eastern politics. Where Palestinian-Israeli conflict is concerned, the US Christian approach is driven by theology and a number of myths reinforced in the media. The paper addresses a number of these myths reivealing a gulf between reality and theological expectation. The reality is well understood by many inhabitants of the Middle East who now hold the moral high ground, and with some justification, view Christianity as morally defici
A draft was inadvertently published. The final paper may be found HERE

Another Perspective on Afghanistan.
Deborah Storie
Zadok Perspectives 78, Autumn 2003
With the best of intentions we impose our beliefs, values, systems and institutions on those who have their own vision to follow and would sooner not share ours

Islam and Christianity in Indonesia.
Daniel Johnson
Zadok Paper S123, Autumn 2003
Muslim-Christian relations in Indonesia have been strained since the attempted communist coup of 1965. Muslim political interests have been pushing far and slowly gaining more power, They have managed to limit (but not totally restrict) Christian influence in the country. Christian missionaries have had their visas revoked and there have been reports of violence, church-burning, (and mosque burning) and persecution of Christians in Muslim majority areas. Most Indonesians hope for religious harmony, but Indonesia’s future stability is uncertain, especially after the Bali bombings. This history has changed Christian mission practice. Missionaries and some Indonesian churches are seeking to make their message and worship forms more relevant to their context, while carefully avoiding the syncretism so common in Indonesia.

Baxter Detention Centre.
David Wright
Zadok Perspectives 77, Summer 2002
David Wright was invited on a briefing and guided tour of the Baxter Detention Centre prior to its opening and reflects of what he saw and heard.

They Saw a Star, We See Samaritans; Waging Peace on Islam.
Christine Mallouhi
Zadok Perspectives 77, Summer 2002
Evangelicals believe so deeply in personal conversion and peace, but what is our contribution to world peace?

Prophetic Patience, Active Waiting.
Doug Hynd
Zadok Perspectives 74, Autumn 2002
Despite September 11, the treatment of refugees became last year for many Australians the defining issue in public policy. The stranger has been demonized by the government for their own political ends, and almost no-one is speaking in the public realm for those who carry a sense of frustration and helplessness over the treatment of refugees in this country.

Creating another Mary.
Amelia Koh-Butler
Zadok Perspectives 74, Autumn 2002
Someone, somewhere had made the decision to take an eight month pregnant woman and separate her from her husband in the days before Christmas.

Begging our Pardon.
Deborah Storie
Zadok Perspectives 73, Summer 2002
“I never know what to do with beggars – their incessant demands, their imploring voices, their grabbing, grasping hands…” Deborah Storie reflects on her time amongst Afghanistan’s impoverished and explains what it taught her about how we should treat asylum seekers.

Mission to Muslims: Colonial or Spiritual Power?
Greg Manning
Zadok Perspectives 73, Summer 2002
For most Christians, Muslim has unambiguously meant ‘other’ and difference at the most fundamental level.

Sider's still Bubbling. A conversation between Gordon Preece and Ronald Sider
Zadok Perspectives 69, Summer 2000
The important and interesting questions today are what kind of government intervention is useful for the sake of economic justice, what works and what doesn’t?

Teaching Refugees to Drive.
Doug Hynd
Zadok Perspectives 69, Summer 2000
Gestures of hospitality to the refugee are an integral part of Christian witness. The churches can afford to take on the government on this issue to the extent that at the grass roots they are composed of people who take the time to teach refugees to drive and help them get in contact with the local mosque.

Mutual Obligation as Covenantal Justice in a Global Era.
Max Stackhouse
Zadok Paper S102, Summer 1999/2000
The purpose of this paper is to review the biblical idea of covenantal justice, to identify its trans-contextual elements, and to offers it as the most compelling model available of a just polity, with an inner moral and spiritual architecture for our time. Those who are called to aid developing societies, seek change in established ones, intervene in unjust practices at home or abroad, and, even more, to shape the emerging, increasingly common, world civilisation that now transcends nations, for justice’s sake, can know when they are on firm ground and what their limits are and should be.

A Crisis of Compassion.
Melinda Tankard Reist
Zadok Perspectives 64, Winter 1999
The case of Zhu Quing Ping who was returned to China eight months pregnant to face a forced abortion, apparently was not an isolated incident, contrary to Government claims. It was just the most public example of the erosion of a compassionate Australian refugee policy.

Riding Shotgun for the Indonesians.
Laurie Ferguson
Zadok Perspectives 64, Winter 1999
On many occasions Australia was rightly perceived as being an active proponent of an over-indulgence of Indonesia’s interest in international forums.

No More Debates about 'True Justice.'
Steven Bradbury
Zadok Perspectives 60, Autumn 1998
Ponderous debates about ‘true justice’ often eveal more about the debater than ‘justice.’

Looking for a Reason to be Generous
Brett Parris
Zadok Perspectives 49, July 1995
In this article the author outlines a theological basis for our engagement in third world development programs. He contrasts this rich foundation with what he describes as 'the postmodern ethical vacuum.'

People Centred Development
John Steward,
Zadok Paper R26, 1990
People interested in community development, especially in third world countries, will find this guide a rich source of interesting reading material. Summaries are included of about 50 books and journals on community development, mission and the biblical basis for development.

The End of Apartheid? A reflection on the cycle of oppressor and oppressed
John Harris
Zadok Paper S46, 1990
Apartheid in South Africa is one of many examples of the change from being an oppressed people to people who in turn oppress others. We often read in the Bible how God was affronted by those who forgot God's liberating acts and oppressed others as they themselves had once been oppressed. This paper looks at those biblical themes, with South Africa as a major case study.

Australia and the Third World: a christian perspective
Paul Mercer
Zadok Paper, S16, 1981
A well documented and personally engaging discussion of issues relating to overseas aid and models of economic development.

Rich Against Poor: a reading guide on world development
John Goss
Zadok Paper R17, 1981
As well as a reading guide this paper provides a survey of the major approaches to development of the third world.

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