Summer Reading & Listening 2026
Here are some of the things stimulating thinking below the hood of Manna Gum, going into 2026. Jon’s top picks Fleming Routledge, The Crucifixion: Understanding the Death of Jesus…
Theme: Understanding the times
Recent articles
What Happened to Intentional Communities?
[Editor’s note: in the winter edition last year I asked: ‘what has happened to the idea of intentional mission communities? Twenty-five years ago, there were quite a number of such communities just in…
Book Review
Against the Machine is an attempt to give voice to a feeling: a feeling that something is shifting—or has already shifted—in humanity’s relationship to, well… pretty much everything. Paul Kingsnorth…
More articles on Understanding the times
-
Against the Machine
Jacob Garrett
-
Why I am a Left-wing Conservative Radical (but not a Progressive)
Jonathan Cornford
-
Why You Should Eat Kangaroo
Jonathan Cornford
-
From Charity to Justice
Clinton Bergsma
-
Summer Reading & Listening 2025
Jon & Jacob
-
Rebels Against the Future
Jacob Garrett
-
When Manna Gum wins the next election...
OMG
-
Grief and hope after the October referendum
Bianca Manning
-
William Cooper, Pastor Sir Doug Nicholls, and the Failed Referendum
Chris Marshall
-
Living on Stolen land
Jonathan Cornford
-
Caring for Those with Climate Anxiety in Church Communities
Jessica Morthorpe
-
A Teenager Faces a Warming World
Charli Lincke
-
How we are all implicated in the suffering of the DRC
Tom Allen
-
Towards constructive climate conversations
Ben Thurley
-
The experience and reproduction of poverty
Dave Fagg
-
A biblical perspective on the agricultural challenges of the coming century
Jonathan Cornford
-
Cheese
G.K. Chesterton
-
What is it about air travel?
Thea Ormerod & Miriam Pepper
-
Ethical consumption & low-income labour
Jonathan Cornford
-
Update on Climate Change
Thea Ormerod
-
The economics of remote Aboriginal communities (5)
Tim Trudgen
-
The economics of remote Aboriginal communities (4)
Tim Trudgen
-
The economics of remote Aboriginal communities (3)
Tim Trudgen
-
The economics of remote Aboriginal communities (2)
Tim Trudgen
-
The economics of remote Aboriginal communities (1) - History
Tim Trudgen
-
Post-capitalism by Design not Disaster
Samuel Alexander
-
Towards Tax Justice
Dr Mark Zirnzak
-
Imagining a new economy
Lauren A.
-
The case for "green growth" is flawed
Samuel Alexander
-
Manna Gum's back-of-the-envelope Budget Papers
Jonathan Cornford
-
The problem of e-waste
Dave Waterworth
-
A journey into the murky world of carbon offsets
Kim Cornford
-
The housing affordability crisis
Chris Newland
-
Repentance, renewal & agriculture
Jonathan Cornford
-
Self-Mastery as Alternative to Consumer Culture
Matthew Anslow
-
Understanding the global food crisis
by Jonathan Cornford
-
The Unrealised Promises of Recycling
Tom Allen
-
Climate change politics in Australia
An interview with Miriam Pepper on climate change politics in Australia
-
Who are the poor and what do they really want?
by Jonathan Cornford
-
Imagining Alternatives to Normalised Destruction
Jacob Garrett
- Perceptions of wealth in Australia
-
The alienation of indigenous groups in our region
Andrew McCulloch
-
Reflections on the economic crisis and stimulus package
Jonathan Cornford
-
Waking up to climate change
Kim Cornford
-
Hard questions about aid
Jonathan Cornford