Apologetics
The Newtown Massacre: Where was God?
Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion The University of Chicago Divinity School Sightings  12/17/2012 God and Newtown — Martin E. Marty Four daily newspapers greet the Martys at breakfast. The morning after the school killings at Newtown, Connecticut, twenty-four pages of these informed us, while zillions of twitters and tweets and television and […]
John Falzon, The Language of the Unheard
Review: John Falzon, The Language of the Unheard, Garratt Publishing, 2012 In a recent article advocating an increase in the dole, St Vincent de Paul’s Dr John Falzon was quoted as saying it’s a matter of deep shame that unemployment benefits are kept low deliberately ‘as a means of humiliating the very people they were […]
The poor get poorer while the rest get the handouts
The poor get poorer while the rest get the handouts Date December 15, 2012 Suzy Freeman-Greene WHEN will Julia Gillard’s government find the courage to raise the dole? Her party’s website tells us it is working for a ”fairer Australia”. But while middle-class welfare endures, our poorest citizens are living far below the poverty […]
Gun glamour: America’s appetite for anarchy
December 18, 2012 Brian Masters Every day 80 people are shot to death in the US. The Sandy Hook slaughter is not as unusual as it should be. Illustration: Matthew Golding. THE massacre of innocents at a primary school in Newtown, Connecticut, on Friday was indeed, as President Barack Obama put it, heart-breaking. His halting, […]
Christians in the Middle East, December 2012
Syria war fuels Christian flight from Middle East By Kevin Connolly BBC Middle East correspondent The violence in Syria shows no signs of slowing down The Lebanese city of Zahle sits high the Bekaa valley, on the ancient highway that connects Damascus to Beirut and the world beyond it across the Mediterranean. To reach it from […]
Just a cartoonist with a moral duty to speak
Just a cartoonist with a moral duty to speak Date December 11, 2012 Michael Leunig The cartoonist’s task is not to be balanced but to give balance. SEVERAL years ago I was invited to speak at Melbourne’s Jewish Museum on the subject of ”The cartoonist as society’s conscience”. I gladly accepted but within a week […]
Geoffrey Robertson plays with fire…
Hit squads join queue as Geoffrey Robertson plays with fire BY:PETER WILSON, EUROPE CORRESPONDENT From:The Australian November 24, 2012 12:00AM GEOFFREY Robertson’s wife, author Kathy Lette, occasionally jokes that if somebody killed him the police would never solve the crime because there simply would be too many suspects. “I guess I have made quite a few […]
Phillip Adams, Bedtime Stories…
Phillip Adams, Bedtime Stories: Tales from my 21 years at RN’s Late Night Live, ABC books, 2012. Phillip Adams is Australia’s #1 auto-didact/ public intellectual. To that add: premier raconteur, acquaintance of more-interesting-people than anyone, kingmaker (eg. during Bob Hawke/Bill Hayden saga), most-listened-to radio interviewer by people who love ideas, rather than wallowing in the […]
Bishop Gene Robinson: MARRIAGE EQUALITY: 10 Q&R’s
MARRIAGE EQUALITY: 10 Q&R’s Bishop Gene Robinson, God Believes in Love: Straight Talk about Gay Marriage, Knopf, 2012. Gene Robinson is the world’s first openly gay bishop elected to the historic episcopate (2003). He was also the first and only duly elected and consecrated bishop to be excluded – in 2008 – by the Archbishop […]
The Cardinal’s hubris (institutional power corrupts…)
Pell has failed the church and its victims Date November 15, 2012 The cardinal’s lack of empathy reflects a leadership deficit. THE Catholic cardinal, George Pell, is wrong on so many levels. In his response to the Gillard government’s decision to hold a royal commission, which will examine how allegations of sexual abuse were handled […]
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