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Barney Zwartz

Melbourne
As seen in: WAtoday, MSN Australia, Stuff.co.nz, Sydney Morning Herald, Naked City, The Age, The Sunday Age, The Canberra Times, The Christian Post, Brisbane Times, National Catholic Reporter and
Senior fellow, Centre for Public Christianity, former Age religion editor, writer on classical music.
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A black swan event raises the question no one asks

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By Barney Zwartz
| MSN Australia Verified
Barney Zwartz I have read tens of thousands of words over the past fortnight about the Sydney Swans' debacle at Melbourne's Pullman hotel, which has dismantled their season and left the club in crisis. There have been an extraordinary number of permutations and opinions, but one question seems still untouched. To their credit, the Swans hierarchy has expressed the right priorities – decency, the wellbeing of the women involved, responsibility to the wider club and players.
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By Barney Zwartz
| Pearls and Irritations
It has never been more dangerous to be a Christian than today. According to the newly released 2024 World Watch List an authoritative survey by Open Doors, an organisation that supports persecuted Christians 365 million Christians, or one in seven, are at high or extreme risk of persecution every day because of their faith. In 2007, British intelligence agency MI6 reported that 200 million Christians were in daily danger. That number has almost doubled.
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The post-Christian world is not pretty

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By Barney Zwartz
| The Spectator Australia Verified
Historian Niall Ferguson, one of the world’s most influential public intellectuals, is the latest high-profile academic to convert to Christianity after decades of rejecting it. He is not alone. Other notable converts include his wife Ayaan Hirsi Ali, historian Tom Holland, philosopher Roger Scruton, and environmentalist and author Paul Kingsnorth.
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