Keywords: Interfaith Dialogue
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 03 December 2009
In the early 1990s Mark Whitacre, an executive at American agricultural
powerhouse Archer Daniels Midland, became an informant for an FBI
investigation into price-fixing. But Whitacre is not the 'white hat' he claims to be.
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 28 August 2009
3 Comments
Members of the Interreligious Coordinating Council in Israel are remarkably sanguine about the
future. Within their lifetimes, they expect peace to reign after
implementation of the two state solution.
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MARGARET DOOLEY AWARD
Multi-faith dialogue is just a conversation, over time, between dear friends.
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EUREKA STREET/ READER'S FEAST AWARD
Reader's Feast Bookstore is delighted to once again join with Eureka Street to offer an award in the area of social justice writing. Funded by Reader's Feast Bookstore and organised by Eureka Street, the theme for the essay was 'Climate change and the global financial crisis: can we afford to save the planet?'
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 27 April 2009
21 Comments
Christians committed to interfaith dialogue were shocked that some Christian leaders have opposed the building of an Islamic school in Sydney. Rather than welcoming the newcomers, leaders' statements will bolster opposition based on fear and ignorance.
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RELIGION
- Neil Ormerod
- 25 March 2009
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The parish acts as a beacon in social justice and inclusion. It is hard to see why they can't do this without breaking the Church's rules. Dorothy Day of the Catholic Worker Movement managed to marry social activism with a conservative religious life.
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AUSTRALIA
- Peter Kirkwood
- 18 March 2009
3 Comments
When asked if America was winning the war in Afghanistan, Obama answered: 'No'. His call for dialogue with the Taliban reflects a form of inter-religious dialogue that goes beyond a lovey-dovey, 'underneath we're all the same' approach.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Jeanne Conte
- 18 February 2009
2 Comments
The vast majority of Turkey's citizens are Muslim, yet
they preserve and share their cultural history with the nation's Christians. Many Christian sites
are revered by Muslims as well.
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RELIGION
- Constant Mews
- 05 February 2009
Obama's inaugural address evoked another great speech. In Chicago in 1893 Swami Vivekananda called for an end to 'sectarianism, bigotry, and
its horrible descendant, fanaticism'. Vivekananda's vision was never realised.
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AUSTRALIA
- John Warhurst
- 21 October 2008
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Kevin Rudd has a patchy record of bipartisanship. Although Rudd and Turnbull together offer the best chance yet for the republican movement, they have traded blows over bipartisan approaches to this and to the the economic crisis.
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AUSTRALIA
Foreign Affairs Minister Alexander Downer said recently: "Muslim extremists are a Muslim issue - not ours." The fault with this view is that it transfers ownership of this challenge from the elected leaders to a minority group who simply don’t have the resources to deal with such a global crisis.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Bede Heather reviews Jacques Dupuis’ Toward a Christian Theology of Religious Pluralism.
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