Keywords: Trinity College
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EUREKA STREET TV
- 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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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 29 July 2011
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RELIGION
- Andrew McGowan
- 19 May 2011
14 Comments
Anglican bishops are not appointed more democratically or transparently than Roman Catholic bishops, although there are better-known processes and lines of accountability. And they would have better legal redress should anyone try to get rid of them.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 17 May 2011
31 Comments
I have known Bill Morris as priest and bishop for 30 years. He is a good man — no flash academic but the most down to earth pastoral guy you could meet. His forced departure from Toowoomba has been some years in the coming. He is right to claim that he has been denied natural justice.
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 10 February 2011
3 Comments
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 10 February 2011
Lay Catholic theologian Neil Ormerod's approach was strongly coloured in the early 1990s when he and his wife Thea became activists on behalf of survivors of clergy sexual abuse.
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 22 October 2010
6 Comments
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EUREKA STREET TV
- 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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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 08 October 2010
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EUREKA STREET TV
- 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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RELIGION
- Andrew McGowan
- 30 September 2010
1 Comment
The Australian Anglican Church is divided on questions of women's ordination, sexuality, lay presidency and liturgical texts. But the recent assembly in Melbourne was relatively polite, although the question of the conservative, evangelical Sydney Diocese's relationship with the rest was never far from the surface.
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RELIGION
- Andrew McGowan
- 16 July 2010
17 Comments
Gay and lesbian youths are at greater risk from suicide and mental
illness, and from religious and other forms of exclusion than from their own sexuality. Jesus cared less about the risk he might 'promote'
Samaritanism than about the need to promote an ethic of unconditional
acceptance.
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