Keywords: Anglican Church
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AUSTRALIA
- Andrew Hamilton
- 02 February 2009
19 Comments
Pope Benedict's decision to lift the excommunication of four dissident
Bishops has caused controversy. The decision raises wider questions about the unity of
the Catholic Church, which bear on a current conflict within the Church in Brisbane.
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EDUCATION
- Neil Ormerod
- 26 November 2008
6 Comments
Theological colleges increasingly need to turn to churches for underwriting, yet church congregations are dwindling, which affects them financially as well. Something has to give ... and in Brisbane, it already has.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 07 July 2008
12 Comments
The Church needs to go beyond the benign 'we didn't ask for it' excuse for tolerating the controversial World Youth Day laws, which it can only regard as convenient. Its own right to strident expression of its views is at stake.
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RELIGION
- Charles Sherlock
- 16 April 2008
7 Comments
In May, the Rev. Canon Kay Goldsworthy will become Australia's first female bishop. The role will entail pressures from those opposed to having a woman as bishop,
and those who have been waiting for this moment for decades.
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AUSTRALIA
- John Warhurst
- 12 March 2008
5 Comments
Kevin 07 ended his campaign with a wooden and self-absorbed election-night speech. Supporters took a deep breath and hoped 2008 would be better. So far it has been.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Robin Koning
- 24 January 2008
14 Comments
Too often, generic statements about missionaries colluding with colonialism and destroying indigenous cultures are presumed to say all that needs to be said. Detailed study of mission history is essential if we are to move beyond the clichés.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 31 October 2007
4 Comments
Cardinal Pell does not underscore his climate change denial with theological justification, as he does with his position on issues such as human cloning. It is unfair to him, and to the Catholic Church, to assume that his personal views on climate change represent Church teaching.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 25 October 2007
1 Comment
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RELIGION
- Charles Sherlock
- 03 October 2007
2 Comments
The last pane of the 'stained glass ceiling' was removed last week for most Australian Anglicans. It turns out that a decision made for ecumenical and post-colonial reasons has enabled the change.
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AUSTRALIA
- Keith Harvey
- 27 June 2007
2 Comments
The Government’s "fairness" Bill provided that new agreements should compensate employees for loss of particular award conditions. Since individual agreements remain the cornerstone of the Government’s laws, the fundamental right of employees to bargain collectively and be represented by their union remains absent.
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CONTRIBUTORS
- Richard Treloar
- 17 May 2007
The Revd Dr Richard Treloar is Chaplain of Trinity College at the University of Melbourne, and teaches at the United Faculty of Theology. He is the Vicar-designate of Christ Church, Anglican Parish, South Yarra, Melbourne.
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CONTRIBUTORS
- Chris McGillion
- 17 May 2007
Chris McGillion is an expert in both religion and Cuba; he is the religious affairs columnist for the Sydney Morning Herald, and has written and edited a number of books, including Unfinished Business: America and Cuba After the Cold War, 1989-2001; Cuba, the United States, and the Post-Cold War World, and The Chosen Ones: The politics of salvation in the Anglican Church.
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