Keywords: Prosperity Gospel
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 24 January 2011
15 Comments
Australia Day is supposed to make us feel good about ourselves as a nation. This year, the scheduling of the four-part TV event Oprah's Ultimate Australian Adventure ensures there's every chance we will feel good about ourselves, but as individuals.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 06 October 2008
'Lee and
Christine Rush are your average Ozzie couple, except that their teenage son Scott is on death row in Bali having been
convicted of being a hapless drug mule. It will not go down well on the streets of Jakarta
if Australians are baying for the blood of the Bali bombers one month
and then pleading to save our sons and daughters the next month.'
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RELIGION
- Richard Mulgan
- 22 January 2007
2 Comments
Kevin Rudd and other Christians have been inspired by Christ’s concern for the disadvantaged. They have seen state-based social justice policies as a way of institutionalising this concern. But such compassion can easily slide into patronising assumptions about the distance between those who give and those who receive.
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 23 December 2006
19 Comments
Family First's claim that it is not a Christian political party should not be surprising. In Mark’s Gospel, the greatest single obstacle to faith is to put family first.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Andrew Hamilton
- 31 May 2006
This Lent the Passion of the Christ has been the biggest Christian show in town.
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AUSTRALIA
Peter Davis examines progress on the road to peace in the Solomon Islands
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Andrew Hamilton
- 27 April 2006
Andrew Hamilton reflects on Marion Maddox’s God under Howard: The Rise of the Religious Right in Australian Politics.
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