Keywords: Christian Brethren
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RELIGION
- Barry Gittins
- 21 May 2024
When friends faced a heartbreaking loss, they found solace in Carl Jung's writings, granting them permission to grieve and hope. Given his life of contradictions, how should we evaluate Jung's contributions and his complex relationship with religious faith?
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RELIGION
- Andrew McGowan
- 01 May 2014
29 Comments
In April the Victorian Court of Appeal upheld an earlier ruling that a youth camp run by the Christian Brethren had discriminated illegally against same-sex attracted persons by refusing a booking from a community health service for an event for young gay and lesbian people. This is not an isolated case. It is sobering that churches often seem to need the courts to give them lessons, if not about sex, then about hospitality and fairness.
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RELIGION
- Andrew McGowan
- 16 July 2010
17 Comments
Gay and lesbian youths are at greater risk from suicide and mental
illness, and from religious and other forms of exclusion than from their own sexuality. Jesus cared less about the risk he might 'promote'
Samaritanism than about the need to promote an ethic of unconditional
acceptance.
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