The Christmas season recalls the fundamental and continuing importance of one of this nation’s and, indeed, our civilisation’s pillars, our Judeo-Christian heritage and values.
That this is a country of different religions, and of those with no religion, was obvious, even at the British settlement in 1788.
Recognising this when he preached the first sermon in this land, the Reverend Richard Johnson began, ‘I do not address you as Churchmen or Dissenters, as Roman Catholics or Protestants, as Jews or Gentiles… I speak to you as mortals and yet immortal.
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