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Keywords: Midlife

ARTS AND CULTURE

The problem of new nihilism
- Joel Hodge
- 05 October 2021
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Does life have meaning? Or, as the new nihilists suggest, is life meaningless? A new book, The Sunny Nihilist, by writer and journalist, Wendy Syfret, puts the case for nihilism as an antidote to the obsessive search for meaning and purpose that many modern people experience.
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RELIGION

St Ignatius Loyola and the midlife journey
- Gerald O'Collins
- 20 May 2021
24 Comments
Over forty years ago I drew on the doctoral work of Bridget Puzon to produce The Second Journey and reflect on midlife journeys. Human history, as I realised then and later, throws up everywhere examples of such journeys: from Abraham and Sarah to Moses, from Paul of Tarsus to Mother Teresa of Calcutta, from Dante Alighieri to Eleanor Roosevelt, from John Wesley to Jimmy Carter, from John Henry Newman to Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
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RELIGION

Wherever faith resides
- Julian Butler
- 29 April 2021
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Even as it is an ‘inner light’, illuminating all else, having faith isn’t without critical reason. Philip’s ‘appreciative but never uncritical’ approach to faith might be said to characterise the approach of a growing number of young people, too.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Around the world in 18 ways
- Ian C. Smith
- 31 July 2018
In Tahiti I fall ill, bronchitis amid humid splendour. At a summer camp in Dutchess County I get the sack. Cops warn me for hitch-hiking after sundown in Maine. In the wintry Cotswolds I wheeze in a bedewed attic. A lost aunt is found in Liverpool post-Toxteth.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Atheist Clive James' hymn to God
- Philip Harvey
- 10 June 2014
8 Comments
Rumours of his death are greatly exaggerated, but Clive James has since 2010 made a public art of dying. It is in this intense moment of re-evaluation of life that we read his translation of Dante's Divine Comedy. Possibly no great poem is so immersed in the connections between our life here and now with life after death. It's striking that an avowed atheist produces the best poetry in Paradiso.
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RELIGION

Church and ordained ministry in the 21st century
- Frank Brennan
- 23 May 2013
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Fr Frank Brennan's keynote address at the Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn Clergy Assembly, St Clement's, Gaylong, on 22 May 2013
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AUSTRALIA

America's choice through Australian eyes
- Tony Kevin
- 01 November 2012
9 Comments
If citizens of other nations could vote, it should be Obama by a mile! Outsiders are perplexed by polling that suggests a cliffhanger in the contest between the incumbent Obama and the Republican compromise candidate Romney. The issues – many of which are vital for Australia – are clear, but the outcome is not.
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RELIGION

Greater transparency will evolve the Church
- Frank Brennan
- 24 May 2012
44 Comments
Bishop Morris wrote at considerable length to Archbishop Chaput, in a highly respectful and fraternal tone. To be fair to Chaput, I will quote his breathtaking response in full. It illustrates what still passes for due process and pastoral care in the Roman Church. We have to insist on something better. And with greater transparency, we will get something better.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

The alien landscape of a tumultuous midlife
- Tim Kroenert
- 15 May 2008
Helen Hunt has entered middle age gracefully, and appears both physically and emotionally haggard in this proudly adult drama. An unashamed tearjerker, the real triumph of Then She Found Me is that it's also very funny.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Film reviews
- Morag Fraser, Allan James Thomas , Zane Lovitt, Siobhan Jackson
- 29 April 2006
Reviews of the films Alexander, Closer, Sideways and Million Dollar Baby.
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Keywords: Midlife