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Keywords: Happiness

  • 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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  • RELIGION

    Pope's speech gives rise to bigger questions about reason

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 27 February 2007
    3 Comments

    Andrew Hamilton reflects further on the furore provoked by Pope Benedict's speech at Regensburg.

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  • RELIGION

    Faith and Reason in Limbo

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 27 February 2007
    10 Comments

    What is missing in this theological use of reason is an imagination grounded in ordinary humanity and, in the case of Christians, in the humanity of Christ, the criterion for our knowledge of God.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Harsh lighting exposes moral wrinkles

    • Tim Kroenert
    • 27 February 2007

    Comprehensively drawn characters demonstrate that guilt has a way of catching up with people, forcing them to make a clear choice regarding where they will seek long-term happiness.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Tower of Babel

    • Meg McNena
    • 11 December 2006
    1 Comment

    Lean Cuisine and single flannelette sheets to the heaven / of anywhere else. Born for higher things, a fair share / of paradise beyond the pale of suburban confinement.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    The elusive ideal of a "normal" family

    • Sebastien de Robillard
    • 30 October 2006
    1 Comment

    Although the characters in Little Miss Sunshine are extreme in many ways, it is this very quality that allows us to most relate to them. They are a very sympathetic group, and the message of the film is that few families are truly "normal".

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Young Bobby Darin meets mature Bobby Darin

    • Sebastien De Robillard
    • 24 July 2006
    2 Comments

    Director Kevin Spacey has no need to use normal screen tricks to indicate time or emotion in Beyond the Sea. He achieves this by having young Darin and older Darin interacting thoroughout the film

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Film reviews

    • Morag Fraser, Brett Evans, Juliette Hughes, Gordon Lewis
    • 08 July 2006

    Reviews of the films The Quiet American; Tadpole; Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets; Lovely & Amazing and The Fellowship of the Ring (extended version DVD).

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Pastoral Dreams

    • Matthew Klugman
    • 06 July 2006

    Are they utopian or can they be realised? Matthew Klugman reports.

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  • RELIGION

    Problems with belief

    • Lyn Riddett
    • 26 June 2006

    Lyn Riddett struggles to explain her unbelief to believing friends.

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    The king of children

    • Moira Rayner
    • 24 June 2006

    Moira Rayner on Janusz Korczak and the early history of children’s rights.

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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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