Apologetics
Leadership (background: recent Australian Liberal leadership dramas)
Leaders must recognise the difference between whingeing and true concern September 19, 2015 Being a good leader doesn’t necessarily mean you must defend your staff at all costs and ignore complaints, writes Jim Bright. A leader in possession of a large organisation must be in want of a dog. Photo: Kerrie Leishman It is a […]
Understanding Internet Trolls
The roots of troll culture are closer than we think Jeff Sparrow
Refugees / asylum seekers – quo vadis?
Now for a rethink on our response to refugees… Date September 17, 2015 Louise Newman We now have the opportunity to reaffirm our social commitment to children’s wellbeing and make compassion a reality. Illustration: Rocco Fazzari Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull inherits several matters demanding attention, including a complex legacy of distress and damage to asylum […]
Village where girls turn into boys at puberty
The astonishing village where little girls turn into boys aged 12 In a remote village in the Dominican Republic girls become boys at puberty because of a rare genetic disorder Catherine and his cousin Carla photo credit BBC/Jon Sayers By Sarah Knapton, Science Editor 20 Sep 2015 In every way, Johnny is physically and biologically […]
Religious Responses to Refugee Crises
Refugee Crisis By MARTIN E. MARTY SEPT 21, 2015 The floods of ocean waters in tsunamis occasioned by earthquakes and the floods of humans as refugees occasioned by deathly regimes, revolutions, and food-and-shelter shortages, dominated recent headlines. What their topics have in common is a profound awareness that no one has effective ways frontally to […]
Letter to a new Prime Minister
I was going to write a letter to Australia’s
Japan and the issue of ‘Comfort Women’
Japanese Religions and the Issue of
Review/summary: Changing our Mind, David P. Gushee, 2nd ed., 2015
Throughout history the three major branches of the Christian Church – Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholic, and Protestant – have disagreed on many things, but they have shared a rare point of unity in their antipathy towards the ‘Christ-killing’ Jews. For two millennia this anti-Judaism/anti-Semitism was fuelled mainly by three New Testament passages: Matthew 27:25 (‘his […]
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