Search Results: forgiveness
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 03 March 2011
9 Comments
New communications technology is shaping Church practices, and in the process is raising more fundamental questions about them. The Church holds that faith should be expressed in bodily and communal ways, but it is increasingly difficult to argue this.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 16 February 2011
1 Comment
Becca is appalled by the insufficiency of religious platitudes. Howie's emotions are unbridled and barely tempered, emerging as a lunging stallion roar. Separated by the obelisk of grief for their dead son, they seek solace individually.
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AUSTRALIA
- Irfan Yusuf
- 22 December 2010
17 Comments
Jesus was born into a family of internal refugees. His mother had to seek refuge, fleeing Herod's nasty dictatorship. It's uncertain whether she used the services of satanic people smugglers.
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MEDIA
- Andrew Hamilton
- 10 December 2010
14 Comments
Winfrey's style is confessional in therapeutic mode. Wikileaks is confessional in a heroic mode. Winfrey will be feted in Australia, while Julian Assange's enterprise will, one way or another, be brought to an end. The grace he offers is not cheap enough.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Definitely simian features beneath those whiskers ... definitely a great big hairy chest .. Beneath that stiff Victorian coat.
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MEDIA
- Binoy Kampmark
- 16 July 2010
6 Comments
The decision by a Swiss judge not to extradite film director Roman Polanski to the US has again triggered the debate about how artists are treated by the law. The case has been running simultaneously to that of Russian musician. The parallels are striking.
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 27 May 2010
23 Comments
Many Catholics complained Carl Williams was allowed burial in a
Catholic Church. Some victims of sexual abuse were angry that bishops and priests glorified the funeral
of a priest who had been charged with sexual abuse.
These responses reflect a changing
understanding of funerals in the Church.
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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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