tolerance

A regular article written by Phillip Jensen in his role as Dean of Sydney at St Andrew's Cathedral.

Britain is Changing- Will Australia?
25 December 2011

In 2003 the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair’s atheist press secretary famously said “We don’t do God”, even though Mr Blair was known as a believer.  Apparently, in 2011 the current Prime Minister, David Cameron, is not under the same media constraint. For celebrating the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible, Mr Cameron has spoken quite openly about religion in Britain. And he has gone on the attack on behalf of the Bible and Christian...

more | Australia, Britain, nation, secularism, tolerance
Beyond Tolerance
25 September 2009

A Biblical word for ‘tolerance’ is ‘patience’.  And within the Bible patience is not just ‘passively waiting’ but ‘enduring suffering without retaliation’. 

Tolerance is one of the modern world’s highest values and yet the Bible hardly ever uses the word.  A search in the concordance will not reveal much.  Bible dictionaries have no articles on the topic.  It is thus hard to see where the Bible...

more | patience, relativism, tolerance
A Christian Nation?
18 September 2009

Public holidays are a strange battlefield of belief.  But of recent time there have been considerable complaint about the Government of NSW upholding our traditional Easter and Christmas holidays.

more | government, society, tolerance
The “Arrogance” of Humility
24 April 2009

Winston Churchill was a master of the one line witty put down.  He described his political opponent Clem Attlee as “a modest man who has much to be modest about” and “a sheep in sheep’s clothing”.

But are these really insulting?  Is it not good to be known for modesty and genuine humility?  Is not ‘arrogance’ the real insult of today?

more | arrogance, humility, tolerance
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