Keywords: Moral High Ground
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 18 July 2011
5 Comments
When I appeared on Q&A with Christopher Hitchens, a young man asked whether we can 'ever hope to live in a truly secular society' while the religious continue to 'affect political discourse and decision making' on euthanasia, same-sex unions and abortion. Hitchens was simpaticao. I was dumbstruck.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Mark Raper
- 17 November 2010
3 Comments
May I tell you about one refugee whom I met during the 20 years I lived and worked JRS? The story has no happy outcome, indeed far from it. But it may help to communicate some of the feelings that inspire many who accompany the refugees.
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AUSTRALIA
- Farid Farid
- 29 October 2010
9 Comments
If smelly shoes are the last objects of resistance then the occupation of Iraq will never end. The culturally co-optive nature of benevolent groups to take on causes and speak on behalf of those who allegedly cannot speak for themselves is disturbing.
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AUSTRALIA
Advocacy from the likes of esteemed psychiatrist Professor Patrick
McGorry continues to highlight Australia's mental health system crisis. If Julia Gillard wants to lead on this issue, she will need to further the Coalition's $1.5 billion electoral commitment to mental health services.
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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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AUSTRALIA
If there is any vestige of democratic socialism left in Labor, the Gillard Government needs to raise taxes without
apology, knowing its social welfare policies are just and
necessary. It also needs to remain committed to redistributing wealth to eliminate huge discrepancies in living standards.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
When I met Peter Steele I noticed a spark, a
shimmer of wit that almost subverted his serious courtesy. There was a wild mind at work and play, and I would have to
run prodigiously fast even to catch at its stirrups. So it has proved: it's been a long, vigorous, and exultantly
grateful following.
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AUSTRALIA
- Catherine Marshall
- 06 May 2010
36 Comments
What's the difference between wanting a thin wife and wanting an invisible wife? Which is more democratic: the western tendency to idealise the porn-star aesthetic, or the old-fashioned imperative for modesty and virtue?
When the chips are down, is raunch culture really more dignifying than discretion?
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 09 February 2010
'Tonight I want to reflect in light of the National Human Rights
Consultation how we as Church can do better in promoting justice for
all in our land. Full text from Frank Brennan's 2010 McCosker Oration, 'The Church as Advocate in the Public Square: Lessons from the National Human Rights Consultation'.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Mark Raper
- 18 January 2010
Significant agreement was achieved in Copenhagen on the present and future
forcible displacement of people because of climate change and
environmental degradation. Can global cooperation for the protection of vulnerable displaced persons be renewed to meet new circumstances?
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RELIGION
- Neil Ormerod
- 05 October 2009
37 Comments
Hitchens, like The God Delusion author Richard Dawkins, views belief in God not just as quaint, but as a sign of intellectual
bad will. The age of muscular evangelical Christianity has been replaced by the age of muscular evangelical atheism.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 18 September 2009
4 Comments
In Life and Death: How do we honour the Patient's Autonomy and the Doctor's Conscience?
Frank Brennan's Sandra David Oration at St Vincent's Clinic, Darlinghurst, Sydney, 17 September 2009.
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