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  • EUREKA STREET TV

    Interfaith guru's 9/11 moment

    • Peter Kirkwood
    • 13 July 2012
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  • EUREKA STREET TV

    Interfaith guru's 9/11 moment

    • Peter Kirkwood
    • 13 July 2012

    'I was in London on the day of the 2005 bombs. It was my 9/11 moment and had a profound impact on me. I wanted to do something constructive afterwards, so I had the idea of asking people of different faiths for their favourite prayer.' Ros Bradley is the editor of two books of prayers from all the major religious traditions.

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  • Emboldening lay Catholics

    • Peter Kirkwood
    • 29 June 2012
    10 Comments

    Journalist, author and broadcaster Clifford Longley is one of Britain’s leading lay Catholics. He visited Australia to deliver lectures on the issues and challenges in developing a mature Catholic laity in the light of the teachings of the Vatican II.

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    Emboldening lay Catholics

    • Peter Kirkwood
    • 29 June 2012
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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Women heroes of Muslim-Christian unity

    • Tim Kroenert
    • 28 June 2012
    3 Comments

    When a Christian man takes out his anger by literally kicking the legs out from under a crippled child, two women, a Christian and a Muslim, rush to help the child back to his feet. The women keep the peace in this deeply divided village, but the 'unity' is tenuous and to some extent a fantasy.

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    An uneasy conversation with Michael Kirby

    • Gordon Preece
    • 25 June 2012
    71 Comments

    The homosexuality debate in church and society is an uneasy and often destructive conversation that should not be entered into lightly. Both sides thus need to beware: ‘Conservatives’ if they slip from opposing homosexual acts to opposing homosexual people. The ‘liberals’ for frankly writing, as Michael Kirby admits, ‘very easy pieces’. Well before Malcolm Fraser, Jesus said (Christian) ‘life wasn’t meant to be easy’. Kirby, and the FUP authors, in Bonhoeffer’s terms, are cheapening grace.

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    Michael Kirby on sexuality and churches

    • Peter Kirkwood
    • 15 June 2012
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    Michael Kirby on sexuality and churches

    • Peter Kirkwood
    • 15 June 2012

    'My partner Johan gives me a rough time. He says the church has always been horrible to gays; why do you have anything to do with it? But I don't want any old gent in frocks to take my religion from me.' Former High Court Justice Kirby is a practicing Christian and one of Australia's best known openly homosexual citizens. 

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  • EUREKA STREET TV

    Multiculturalism's answer to terrorism

    • Peter Kirkwood
    • 18 May 2012
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    Multiculturalism's answer to terrorism

    • Peter Kirkwood
    • 18 May 2012

    The concept of multiculturalism is under severe strain, with German and English political leaders going as far as declaring it a failure. Melbourne academic Des Cahill sees multiculturalism as an effective means of promoting harmony, and lessening the likelihood of terrorist acts like that of Norway mass murder Anders Breivik.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Big media's NBN convergence challenge

    • Michael Mullins
    • 07 May 2012
    2 Comments

    The end of big media businesses such as Seven, Nine, Ten and the newspapers would be bad for media proprietors like Kerry Stokes and Rupert Murdoch, but not necessarily a great loss for the rest of us, given the NBN's empowerment of small media enterprises and the diversity that implies.

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    Religious fundamentalism is a two way street

    • Peter Kirkwood
    • 04 May 2012
    6 Comments

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