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  • EUREKA STREET TV

    Reconciling preachers' split identities

    • Peter Kirkwood
    • 21 May 2010
    11 Comments

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  • RELIGION

    Why St Mary's conflict had to happen

    • Alan Austin
    • 15 April 2009
    51 Comments

    From the time Jesus decried the Pharisees for their adherence to rules over freedom and love, the leaders of radical Christian ministries have found themselves in bitter contention with their superiors. Peter Kennedy is no exception.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Converting Paisley the Irish demagogue

    • Frank O'Shea
    • 27 May 2008
    3 Comments

    Northern Ireland has celebrated a year of normal political life. If St Paul got hit by a bolt of lightning, what persuaded Ian Paisley to change from a brand-name for bigotry into a reasonable human being?

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    The lowest of the low

    • Mark O'Flynn
    • 11 March 2007
    2 Comments

    On the Metro in Paris.. a man follows his whiskers onto a train.. He holds out a cardboard cup and declares: I have no money.

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  • RELIGION

    What’s wrong with Voting for Jesus?

    • Scott Stephens
    • 27 February 2007
    3 Comments

    I must confess to growing bored very quickly when I hear that our real problem today is the erosion of spirituality, of belief in a deeper dimension of life, and the consequent rampant materialism. From a properly Christian perspective, the problem today is not materialism, but religion itself.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Cheshire grin

    • Eureka Street Editor
    • 16 June 2006

    Touch of the sun, inner happiness, Germaine Greer and too much garlic.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Basil Hume: Spiritual celebrity in secular Britain

    • Michael Ashby
    • 29 May 2006

    Basil Hume died as one of the most respected religious figures of the twentieth century.  He was able to balance London and Rome without losing local liberals, or incurring curial and papal ire.   

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