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A hybrid Christianity for Aboriginal Australians
- Peter Kirkwood
- 05 November 2010
Prominent Aboriginal elder Tom Calma was brought up Catholic but no longer sees himself as a Christian. While he has gravitated towards his Aboriginal spiritual heritage, he envisions a positive engagement between Christianity and Aboriginal spirituality, and urges the Churches to be open to a hybrid Christianity that embraces both.
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A hybrid Christianity for Aboriginal Australians
- Peter Kirkwood
- 05 November 2010
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Troublesome nun's faith and feminism
- Peter Kirkwood
- 22 October 2010
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Troublesome nun's faith and feminism
- Peter Kirkwood
- 22 October 2010
Like Mary MacKillop before her, Sandra Schneiders is fearless in calling the male Church hierarchy to account. She warns of the dangers for the Church in seeing itself above and separate from the world.
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Shedding light on Christian Australia's bleak prognosis
- Peter Kirkwood
- 08 October 2010
Renowned sociologist Gary Bouma is one of most respected observers of religion in this country. He predicts that, by 2021, less than 50 per cent of Australians will call themselves Christian.
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Shedding light on Christian Australia's bleak prognosis
- Peter Kirkwood
- 08 October 2010
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Aussie Zen Buddhist's religious prize
- Peter Kirkwood
- 24 September 2010
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Aussie Zen Buddhist's religious prize
- Peter Kirkwood
- 24 September 2010
Australian poet Tasha Sudan just won the Blake Prize for Religious Poetry, and in October will be ordained in a Zen Buddhist monastery. In simple but evocative language the poem speaks of the Buddha from his son's point of view.
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AUSTRALIA

Pope-hate in broken Britain
- Michael Mullins
- 20 September 2010
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Social commentator Frank Furedi wrote that the Pope's UK visit provided Britain's cultural elite with 'a figure that it is okay to hate'. We might regard the angst as a manifestation of the growing pains that are to be expected in a world of emerging pluralism.
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Art prize tests religious convention
- Peter Kirkwood
- 03 September 2010
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Art prize tests religious convention
- Peter Kirkwood
- 03 September 2010
The annual Blake Prize for Religious Art has never been far from controversy. Works honoured this year include Sydney artist Rodney Pople’s Cardinal with Altar Boy, which is a provocative painting dealing with clergy sexual abuse. Its setting is the interior of a beautiful baroque church, and it portrays a headless prelate dressed in ecclesiastical finery, with an altar boy in his lap.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Man of faiths
- Peter Kirkwood
- 01 September 2010
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On his return to Europe after many years absence, Raimon Panikkar said: ‘I left as a Christian, I found myself a Hindu, and I return a Buddhist, without having ceased to be a Christian.' This statement of his own multiple religious belonging is just one of many challenging insights and ideas that he wrote about with passion and eloquence.
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