Keywords: Melbourne College Of Divinity
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 11 January 2011
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 04 January 2011
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 17 December 2010
Progressive Christianity aims to bring religion into line with the latest scholarship. A leading proponent,, Brisbane Anglican minister Greg Jenks, is co-director of the Bethsaida Excavations Project in Israel, an archaeological site two kilometres from the coast of the Sea of Galilee.
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 03 December 2010
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 03 December 2010
Hamilton allows a broad readership to enter the world of Catholic theology and practice and church history, and also draws out the spiritual dimension in secular events and issues.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Go and open the door .. stare at the bright blue sea .. for boats .. struggling southwards from Sri Lanka and Afghanistan. .. Feel the rippling fear of refugees .. wondering if supplies will last .. or a hand reach out .. or turn and lock the door.
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AUSTRALIA
- John Warhurst
- 11 November 2010
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Nine prime ministers have been observant Christians. Two have been conventional Christians. Ten have been nominal Christians. Five have been articulate atheists or agnostics. One was a nominal atheist or agnostic.
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 22 October 2010
Like Mary MacKillop before her, Sandra Schneiders is fearless in calling the male Church hierarchy to account. She warns of the dangers for the Church in seeing itself above and separate from the world.
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RELIGION
- Katharine Massam
- 15 October 2010
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Mary MacKillop's face is on the Sydney Habour Bridge, at least temporarily. Is she becoming one of the clichés for Australia, alongside bushmen and Hills Hoist mums in our catalogue of national identity?
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 08 October 2010
Renowned sociologist Gary Bouma is one of most respected observers of religion in this country. He predicts that, by 2021, less than 50 per cent of Australians will call themselves Christian.
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 24 September 2010
Australian poet Tasha Sudan just won the Blake Prize for Religious Poetry, and in October will be ordained in a Zen Buddhist monastery. In simple but evocative language the poem speaks of the Buddha from his son's point of view.
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 03 September 2010
The annual Blake Prize for Religious Art has never been far from controversy. Works honoured this year include Sydney artist Rodney Pople’s Cardinal with Altar Boy, which is a provocative painting dealing with clergy sexual abuse. Its setting is the interior of a beautiful baroque church, and it portrays a headless prelate dressed in ecclesiastical finery, with an altar boy in his lap.
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