Keywords: City Of Churches
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Andrew Hamilton
- 23 July 2010
8 Comments
In contrast to Luther, John Molony never discovered the grace that would free him from the guilt and anxiety caused by his not meeting expectations. Nor did he reject the pattern of church relationships and theological assumptions that endorsed these expectations. He simply lost hope that he could live as a good priest.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 07 July 2010
Fr Frank Brennan's address to the Melbourne College of Divinity
Centenary Conference, Trinity College, University of Melbourne, 6 July
2010.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Peter Steele
- 30 April 2010
1 Comment
Feed and clothe this Australian poet and lodge him in a library attached to a music venue, and remarkable things would happen. He made of London a country of the mind, its vices, virtues, constant features and mutability there to be inspected and eventually portrayed.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Ben Coleridge
- 22 April 2010
5 Comments
Winter in the Russian industrial city of Yaroslavl has been hard since
the Global Financial Crisis. The 'contract' between Russia's elite and ordinary
Russians, whereby the latter sacrifice their civil and political rights
for economic wellbeing, is not delivering.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Gillian Bouras
- 14 April 2010
4 Comments
When such melancholy descends the only thing to do is walk. I fetched up near a chapel on a hill, for the village is ringed by chapels, six of them, in a kind of
protective belt. Outside
I found a gum tree and a Judas tree standing side by
side: my life, or my
two lives in a neat symbol.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Eleanor Massey
- 17 March 2010
7 Comments
The cockatoo screeched, hurling himself against
the windows of a Pitt Street high-rise. He didn't have a branch to sit on. We Sydney-siders, jammed between tower blocks which cut out the sun, and
pavements shutting off the earth, were in sympathy. Thank God for McDonald's.
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 15 December 2009
34 Comments
Christmas is a time for hospitality, and hospitality is central in the Christian tradition. You may not have thought this was so when, recently, the Anglican Church in Bendigo, Vic., was denied the use of a Catholic cathedral for the ordination of four female deacons.
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RELIGION
- Irfan Yusuf
- 14 September 2009
24 Comments
Tony
Abbott has described the New Testament as
'the core document of our civilisation'. As a South Asian Muslim, I'd like to think many Christians would be as incensed by
attempts to treat Christianity as uniquely Western as I am when Islam is treated as uniquely Arab.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Eleanor Massey
- 24 June 2009
5 Comments
Neither lapsed nor nominal, but wandering — squizzing through
church doors to check the whereabouts of altar, cross and candlesticks,
before slipping into the back row. Last up to Communion, first out the door. A True Anglican.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Michael Mullins
- 08 April 2009
2 Comments
Prior to the devastation of Monday's earthquake, L'Aquila was a
picturesque hillside city of 75,000 inhabitants nestled in the Gran
Sasso mountains. It was not always a plagued, razed purgatory.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Malcolm King
- 21 January 2009
1 Comment
Adelaide has a large, country-town feel about it. Sputes (sports utes) abound and the word 'bogan' is a term of endearment. The mullet hair cut, check shirt and ugg boots have never really gone out of
fashion here. These are my people.
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AUSTRALIA
- Ben Coleridge
- 16 January 2009
2 Comments
When it comes to political debate, being a foreigner can be difficult. Former president Vladimir Putin's recent State of the Nation address, made on the eve of his departure from the presidency, called for national unity and 'stable development' to the exclusion of foreign influence. (March 2008)
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