Contribution from the consumate Jill Cooper friend and now contributor

Malachi Ritscher envisioned his death as one full of purpose. “Here is the statement I want to make: if I am required to pay for your barbaric war, I choose not to live in your world. I refuse to finance the mass murder of innocent civilians, who did nothing to threaten our country,” he wrote [...]

Bishops slam consumerism and growing “underclass”

Original source
In this year’s Social Justice Statement to be released today Australia’s Catholic Bishops slam consumerism and the emergence of a severely disadvantaged underclass.
The Sydney Morning Herald reports this year’s statement, A Rich Young Nation: The challenge of affluence and poverty in Australia, also questions the selfish attitudes of wealthy taxpayers who resist tax rises [...]

The right (write) of reply

 
A theological response to comments made by Dr Francis Macnab, The Age, 16 September 2008
 
The Uniting Church in Australia is committed by its Basis of Union to living and working ‘within the faith
and unity of the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church’ [§2]. For this reason it receives the ancient
creeds of the Church (the Nicene [...]

On Racism

An article on Racism

In The Fragile Abolute, Slavoj Žižek opens his book with a discussion about how to best encapsulate the “gist of an epoch.”  He argues that to understand the cultural-political reality of a particular time and place we must look, not so much at the explicit features that define the “social and [...]

I’ll give you controversial

New faith throws out the Ten Commandments
Barney Zwartz
September 16, 2008
 
Francis Macnab.
 
“THE TEN Commandments, one of the most negative documents ever written.” With that provocative claim posted high over two city streets, controversial cleric Francis Macnab yesterday launched “a new faith for the 21st century”, a faith beyond orthodox Christianity.
Dr Macnab says Abraham is probably [...]