Double-Minded. A Book Launch

17 February 2024 at Bread of Life Church, 7/25 Chapman St, Blackburn North VIC 3130, Melbourne, Australia. 6.45pm for 7pm Start.

Speakers: Mark Durie and Gordon Preece, editor of Zadok Perspectives and Director of the Ethos Centre for Christianity.

In Double-Minded, Mark Durie explores the impact of the sexual revolution and changing sexual ethics upon Australian Christians, and how diverse responses to these changes are informed by differences in church governance and theology.

He argues that a parting of the ways among Christians is driven by divergent understandings of what it means to be human. This timely book draws attention to deep ethical divisions facing Australian society.

Mark Durie speaks and writes on relations between monotheistic faiths, human rights and religious freedom. He is the founding director of the Institute for Spiritual Awareness, a Writing Fellow at the Middle East Forum, and a Senior Research Fellow of the Arthur Jeffery Centre for the Study of Islam at the Melbourne School of Theology. Click here to read more on Mark Durie.

This highly accessible book reflects the deep scholarship and insights of its author. As we all seek to understand massive changes in our culture it superbly sets out the extraordinary divergence between modern and traditional Christian worldviews, which accounts for so much of the profound confusion that characterises our times.

 – John Anderson, Former Deputy Prime Minister of Australia.

Mark Durie has provided a welcome resource on how Christians have reacted to the sexual revolution in our times. He covers the varied spectrum of Christian denominations and movements, so there is bad news and good news. While he writes calmly, describing a complex time of transition, we are confronted by the urgent question: Where do we go from here?

 – Bishop Peter J. Elliott, Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus in Melbourne, and author of The Sexual Revolution, History, Ideology, Power. 

The question "What do Christians believe about sex and identity?" is simple, but the answer is complex and not well understood, even by Christians themselves. In his excellent and concise book, Mark Durie gives an illuminating and scholarly analysis of the breadth of Christianity in Australia and its teachings and ethics on sex, identity and what it means to be human.  Mark bursts though a fog of cultural confusion and general religious illiteracy to provide, not only a forensic overview of what church movements believe on sex and identity, but also a penetrating analysis of why these issues are important and what it means for the future of the Church in Australia. This is an exceptionally valuable resource for Christian and non-Christian alike.

– John Steenhof, Managing Director, The Human Rights Law Alliance

This event is co-hosted by Missions Interlink and Bread of Life Church.

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