Keywords: Stranger Things
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Dorothy A. Lee
- 23 December 2008
6 Comments
Feminist biblical scholars ask two fundamental questions of the biblical nativity story. First they ask how female characters
are portrayed.
Second, they ask how these biblical myths can be reinterpreted in a woman-friendly (rather than misogynist) way.
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EUREKA STREET/ READER'S FEAST AWARD
- Irfan Yusuf
- 22 October 2008
12 Comments
When a Muslim woman was kidnapped by the
Byzantine empire, the Caliph in Baghdad threatened to
send a vast army to rescue her.
Today, Muslim leaders do nothing to help
women being mistreated and held in captivity in their own countries.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 25 October 2007
Many Australians have reservations about a government poster espousing such values with a quote from an English novelist, George Eliot, proclaiming "Character is Destiny". Others wonder about Simpson's Donkey as the emblematic carrier of these values. But how do schools train their students to be moral agents in the 21st century.
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AUSTRALIA
- Joseph Camilleri
- 18 May 2007
In light of the federal election, Joe Camilleri considers the questions that have yet to be asked
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RELIGION
- Kylie Crabbe
- 16 April 2007
2 Comments
The conversation about work-life balance is only just skimming the surface when it talks about childcare. We need to talk about how to structure employment arrangements to allow for good citizenship, befriending the stranger, and more.
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MEDIA
- Morag Fraser
- 16 April 2007
13 Comments
Jones' reflexes on air are assertive and territorial. A 'power of one' he may be, but he also makes a powerful appeal to the tribal in all of us. When we retreat into the tribe we lose the chance to experience of the kindness of strangers.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Nahum Ayliffe
- 02 April 2007
5 Comments
John Carroll's The Existential Jesus affirms a view expressed by Nick Cave that the bloodless, placid Jesus offered by the Church denies Christ his potent, creative sorrow, and the boiling anger that confronts us so forcibly in the Gospel of St Mark.
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AUSTRALIA
- Juliette Hughes
- 09 July 2006
Juliette Hughes interviews Dawn Cardona, principal of Darwin’s Nungalinya Theological College.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Peter Steele
- 06 July 2006
Peter Steele looks at poetry about the birds and beasts.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Paul Tankard
- 02 July 2006
Paul Tankard reviews 101 Experiments in the Philosophy of Everyday Life by Roger-Pol Droit.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Peter Steele
- 15 June 2006
Peter Steele unlocks the hidden treasures of fine food.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Poems by Evan Jones
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