# Roundup: Army chaplains, David Mills, politics, marriage, coal seam gas, crucifixion, Facebook and privacy

> Some wars are fought in the name of God. Why ever and wherever Australians go to war, the men and women of God go, too.

31 October 2012 · News

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## [Afghanistan: Chaplains comfort troops](https://www.sbs.com.au/news/video/2297783069/Afghanistan:-Chaplains-comfort-troops)

Some wars are fought in the name of God. Why ever and wherever Australians go to war, the men and women of God go, too.

## [Humble life that made a difference](https://www.smh.com.au/national/obituaries/humble-life-that-made-a-difference-20121029-28feq.html)

David Mills attended Bardwell Park Uniting Church. His wife Jane Mills was a member of the Synod of New South Wales and the ACT Relations With Other Faiths Committee.

## [Tony Campolo and Shane Claiborne](https://sojo.net/blogs/2012/10/29/tony-campolo-and-shane-claiborne-conversation-about-politics/)

A conversation about politics.

## [Should equal marriage be rejected or celebrated by Christians?](https://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/17245)

The possibility of opening up marriage in Britain by law to same-sex couples has been criticised by some Christians but welcomed by others.

## [Pillaging The Pilliga](https://www.theglobalmail.org/feature/pillaging-the-pilliga/447/)

Alarm bells are sounding over further coal seam gas drilling in northern New South Wales’ vast Pilliga State Forest: dead animals and a toxic chain of ponds, along with the release this week of a damning ecological report.

## [So, what’s it like to be crucified?](https://www.theglobalmail.org/feature/so-whats-it-like-to-be-crucified/436/)

It is not a practice that everyone agrees with — the Catholic Church has let it be known that it doesn’t approve of this form of devotion — but this hasn’t stopped the practice, nor the crowds that arrive each year to watch the spectacle.

## [Facebook, privacy, pluralism and belief](https://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/17239)

For pluralism to work there must be diversity. And for diversity to work we need privacy, that is a personal space in which we are allowed to hold beliefs, with or without reason, which differ from others and quite possibly the majority.