Keywords: Religious Conversion
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 28 November 2008
21 Comments
For many young Catholics in the 1960s the defining issue was poverty.
An idealistic social activism was part the contemporary culture. Brian Stoney, who died last week, was a significant figure in shaping ways of accompanying the
poor.
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AUSTRALIA
With the expiry of a five-year ban, former Deputy Prime Minister Anwar
Ibrahim today regains his freedom to contest a Malaysian general
election or internal party election. He is undoubtedly the darling of the foreign press, but many Malaysians doubt his commitment to multiculturalism.
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 27 February 2007
30 Comments
Ultimately, the business of churches is truth, not growth. Of course, a passion for truth might also lead churches to reflect on many of the unnecessary things that alienate people and prevent growth. But the great gift that churches can bring to public life is a care for truth.
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RELIGION
- Daniel Madigan
- 24 December 2006
Pope Benedict is learning the hard way that interreligious dialogue these days is a complex and delicate business. Though he has now affirmed his respect for Muslims, his decision to quote a polemical medieval text against Muhammad and the Qur’an during a lecture last week remains puzzling. From 19 September 2006.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Chris McGillion
- 13 November 2006
2 Comments
No assessment of Fidel Castro’s legacy will be complete without serious attention to his thoughts on religion and to how and why, over the past 20 years, he has turned Cuba from an international troublemaker into a global champion for social justice.
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 18 September 2006
The unrelated cases of the Melbourne schoolgirl, and the Scottish goalie, both invoke two principles that are normally kept quite separate—the right of individual self-expression, and the right of religious freedom.
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RELIGION
- Daniel Madigan
- 18 September 2006
45 Comments
Pope Benedict is learning the hard way that interreligious dialogue these days is a complex and delicate business. Though he has now affirmed his respect for Muslims, his decision to quote a polemical medieval text against Muhammad and the Qur’an during a lecture last week remains puzzling.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Grant Morgan, Anthony Ham, Matthew Albert, Steven Columbus
- 07 July 2006
On your bus, Kerala leads, Sudan in Australia, Coming to terms.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Mark Carkeet
- 13 June 2006
Mark Carkeet celebrates the life and work of Evelyn Waugh.
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RELIGION
- Greg Soetomo
- 12 June 2006
1 Comment
Islam in Indonesia is not monolithic, Indonesian Muslims have generally engaged with other faiths, and are unique in tolerating without outrage the conversion of their people to Christianity.
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RELIGION
Dialogue is no luxury; peace depends on it. The question most simply put is: How shall we live our lives together?
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Guy Rundle reflects on the lives of James McAuley and Harold Stewart.
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