Search Results: Continuum
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RELIGION
- Andrew McGowan
- 22 March 2012
9 Comments
When he became Archbishop of Canterbury, he brought with him the hopes of liberal Anglicans and the scrutiny of conservatives, as he appeared likely to lead the Anglican Church further towards acceptance of progressive views. His success or failure would have to be about conversation, not about decree.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 15 December 2011
4 Comments
Three teenagers are lured into the midst of a demented cult waging a brutal crusade against society's sexual profligacy; the Westboro Baptists re-imagined as violent extremists. This is not the first time questioning Catholic filmmaker Kevin Smith has had a go at religion.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 30 June 2011
4 Comments
The Tree of Life is at once sublime and earthy. Watching it has been likened to 'living inside a prayer'. The adolescent Jack bonds with his emotionally distant father after taking his first tentative steps across the threshold of sin and sexuality.
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RELIGION
- Neil Ormerod
- 25 February 2010
33 Comments
It's unlikely people will flock back to mass simply because a new
translation is in place. Far more likely
is that, as with the change at Vatican II, there will be a disaffected
minority who cease to practice because their experience of the
sacred has been violated.
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INFORMATION
- John Ryan
- 30 November 2009
2 Comments
Turnbull has forced his party to see thereis no way forward without serious internal reform. Maybe he will not beable to lead them on, but while lesser members seem blinded byseemingly irrational caution, Turnbull has called the game with ablinding clarity.
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AUSTRALIA
- Catherine Marshall
- 31 August 2009
8 Comments
The issue is not whether South African athlete Caster Semenya is male, hyper-androgynous,
or, as she claims, 'entirely female'. More burdensome is the ferocious public response to a
predicament that clearly called for maturity and restraint.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Cassandra Golds
- 24 April 2009
1 Comment
That Dostoevsky is said to have developed a 'theology of writing' does not mean he arrives forearmed with a set of dogmatic truths. Rather, he practises the narrative and spritual discipline of allowing each character to be heard.
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AUSTRALIA
- Gillian Bouras
- 01 July 2008
4 Comments
'Iguanagate' pariahs Belinda Neal and John Della Bosca can hardly be compared with Bush, Blair and Howard, but they are arguably on the same continuum. Surely the notion that leadership and responsibility go together still has some meaning.
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AUSTRALIA
- Dewi Anggraeni
- 11 July 2007
There may be ideological sympathy on the part of Indonesia's Jemaah Islamiyah for Al Qaeda, but there has been no direct affiliation between between the two groups since 2003. Al Qaeda, it seems, has dismissed JI as ineffectual—they keep getting caught.
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RELIGION
- James McEvoy
- 27 June 2007
A strong theme of 20th century philosophy and social science is humans as 'dialogical' beings. Our sense of self is defined only in relationship with others, and the other is understood on his or her own terms. But in recent years, this view of the world has been contested.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Inna Tsyrlin
- 18 September 2006
A visiting Dutch environmental economist says it may be too late to expect governments to wake up to the dire need to make and implement adequate policies. He says it is time for us to "work on our government", rather than wait for the government to work on us, to change the way we live.
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EDUCATION
- Christopher Gleeson
- 05 June 2006
Recent statements by government leaders accusing their own schools of ‘values neutral’ education demonstrate clearly how out of touch they are with teaching and learning in the nation’s classrooms.
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