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ARTS AND CULTURE

Atheist critic blind to current religious symbols
- Rod Pattenden
- 05 October 2011
12 Comments
Controversial Fairfax art critic John McDonald is scathing in his assessment of the 60th Blake Prize for Religious Art. His frustrated search for traditional religious symbols in the works reveals a lack of understanding of the role of images within Australia’s living religious imagination.
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RELIGION

Making friends not foes of rights and religion
- Frank Brennan
- 13 September 2011
5 Comments
The Church of the 21st century should be the exemplar of due process, natural justice and transparency. While there can be little useful critique of the final decision of Pope Benedict to force the early retirement of Bishop Bill Morris, there is plenty of scope to review the processes leading up to it.
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Religion and republicanism in Australian politics
- Peter Kirkwood
- 26 August 2011
12 Comments
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Religion and republicanism in Australian politics
- Peter Kirkwood
- 26 August 2011
Political commentator John Warhurst has devoted his working life to observing what motivates politicians, particularly their religious beliefs. He sees an Australian republic as a 'logical, necessary and natural evolution of Australian political and constitutional identity'.
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AUSTRALIA

The Census and Labor's Catholic vote
- Brian Lawrence
- 09 August 2011
14 Comments
The Census will play a central role in the planning of the next Federal election. Past results show that while much of Labor's working class base has abandoned it, a solid base of Catholics remains. But many of these supporters are now standing near the door bemused or angry. These figures show that while low income earners have abandoned Labor, a solid base of Catholics have stuck with it.
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The 'Charles Darwin' of human sciences
- Peter Kirkwood
- 29 July 2011
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The 'Charles Darwin' of human sciences
- Peter Kirkwood
- 29 July 2011
Anglican priest Scott Cowdell is a leading proponent of French-American thinker René Girard. He compares him to Charles Darwin due to 'the simple elegance of his theory for explaining a huge amount of diverse phenomena' relating to human motivation, culture and religion.
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Denouncing bad religion
- Peter Kirkwood
- 01 July 2011
3 Comments
The saturation coverage of the assassination of Osama bin Laden helped the cause of anti-religionists such as the New Atheists, who make blanket denunciations of religion. Theologian Peter Vardy says it’s not enough for believers to shine the light on good religion. They must denounce bad religion as well.
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ENVIRONMENT

Carbon price will cause pain
- Charles Rue
- 21 June 2011
12 Comments
Our lives will change forever as we face the creative challenge posed by the carbon tax. We will pay the real cost of producing food, and cheap and frequent overseas trips will slow. But we must not let a grasping spirit hold us from imagining an economy and lifestyle that can thrive on alternative energy.
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ENVIRONMENT

Cardinal Pell's climate hot air
- Tim Stephens
- 20 May 2011
79 Comments
The difficulty is not his privately-held heterodox views on climate change, but that Australia's most senior Catholic clergyman vigorously advances a position that could be interpreted as a statement of the official stance of the Catholic Church in Australia.
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RELIGION

Atheist's Easter guilt
- Debi Hamilton
- 21 April 2011
7 Comments
My exposure to the Bible gave me a store of rich language and evocative imagery, a sense of history, and illustrations of moral principles. Does it matter that I know something of the story of the Crucifixion and the Resurrection, come Easter, and my children only think of holiday? Well, yes.
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Drawing Julia Gillard
- Peter Kirkwood
- 11 March 2011
2 Comments
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