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ARTS AND CULTURE
During the massacre Rurangwa's grandmother was murdered mid-prayer, various family
members called to god for help, while the killers, fellow parishioners
of the local church, struck their machetes until faith fell with
precious bodies into a pile.
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 13 May 2010
15 Comments
This week's headlines have been about elections in the UK, the economy in Greece, and justice and law in Australia regarding banning the burqa and monstering asylum seekers. The way these are played out leaves little room for love, altruism, forgiveness, restoration, reconciliation and freedom, and no space for grace.
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EDUCATION
- Neil Ormerod
- 16 April 2010
22 Comments
The Sydney Anglican diocese is concerned that proposed ethics classes in schools might attract students away from
existing scripture classes. This looks more like a matter of turf wars, of seeking to maintain numbers and so
justify their continuance.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
In the winter
sun a soul
twitches neck and
head, neck
buried in the pulse
of a round and thinking
flesh.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Devyani Borade
- 03 March 2010
1 Comment
I am a pigtailed nine-year-old in frocks when I first lay eyes on the album. At a glance I can tell my grandfather's obviously old stamps
from my dad's newer ones. Excitement fills me. What a treasure! I am
rich! Now I can buy all the dolls I want!
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 28 January 2010
Are we to accept that the inspiration of sporting victory is alone
sufficient to solve conflict and soothe the way to redemption and
rebirth for a divided nation? If so, it must be said that Eastwood's film is
history rendered as a fairytale.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Leonel Narvaez
- 04 December 2009
2 Comments
Following decades of socio-political conflict in Colombia, we have come to understand that a poor person with anger is
twice poor; that
forgiveness is a powerful way of transforming ungrateful memories into
new languages; that in the
face of irrational violence, victims must offer the
irrationality of forgiveness.
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 20 November 2009
2 Comments
ABC1's The Long Journey Home is based on a book written by the best known alumnus of Fairbridge Farm, David Hill. After the heightened emotions surrounding Kevin Rudd’s apology to the Forgotten Australians, there is talk of forgiveness and compensation.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 06 August 2009
5 Comments
The publicity poster for Beautiful Kate is as ambiguous as the
controversial Bill Henson photographs it so blatantly references. The
film unpacks these ambiguities, not solving but exacerbating them and
making them sing with empathy.
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 23 July 2009
21 Comments
Fr Ted Kennedy's work with Indigenous Australians brought him conflict with police, landowners, parishioners and church authorities. If you live at the margins, you will be marginalised. How best to handle this marginalisation?
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RELIGION
- Herman Roborgh
- 25 June 2009
The scriptures of both Islam and Christianity are full of paradoxes. Some readers of paradoxes simply emphasise only one part of the paradox. (Full text of Herman Roborgh's Dialogue Australasia article, May 2009.)
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RELIGION
- Herman Roborgh
- 25 June 2009
4 Comments
The scriptures of both Islam and Christianity are full of paradoxes.
Some readers of paradoxes simply emphasise only one part of the paradox. Critics of Islam and of Christianity feast on
one-sided interpretation of this sort.
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