Rowland Croucher
Islam and Religious Freedom
Limitations on Religious Freedom in Islam: The Witness of the Qur’an and Prophetic Traditions Abdullah SaeedABC RELIGION AND ETHICS 23 MAY 2014 THE VAST ARRAY OF QUR’ANIC TEXTS AND PRACTICE OF THE PROPHET DEMONSTRATE THAT WHILE APOSTASY ITSELF IS STRONGLY DISCOURAGED, THEY RESPECT THE INDIVIDUAL’S RIGHT TO REMAIN A MUSLIM OR TO LEAVE ISLAM.CREDIT: SHUTTERSTOCK.COM SEE ALSO […]
Kindness: the Australian variety
Australia’s level of kindness related to one’s own kind Date May 24, 2014 John Elder Illustration: Matt Golding. We are a nation that donates $17 million to help our sick children via a television appeal but locks up newly arrived youngsters from trauma-torn countries. We love to read about the plight of the former but […]
Social Media: say goodbye to ‘local’, ‘private’ and ‘average’
Four Words Going Bye-Bye MAY 20, 2014 Thomas L. Friedman The more I read the news, the more it looks to me that four words are becoming obsolete and destined to be dropped from our vocabulary. And those words are ¢â‚¬Å“privacy, ¢â‚¬ ¢â‚¬Å“local, ¢â‚¬ ¢â‚¬Å“average ¢â‚¬ and ¢â‚¬Å“later. ¢â‚¬ A lot of what drives today ¢â‚¬â„¢s news derives from the […]
Aboriginal Youth Suicide
Choosing lore and life: the campaign against Aboriginal youth suicide Date: May 26 2014 Michael Short [WHO] Peter McConchie, director of social justice organisation People Culture Environment and manager of its Culture is Life campaign. [WHAT] Reducing the Aboriginal youth suicide rate, which has soared to become the highest in the world. [HOW] Listen to the elders of […]
Australia: National Debt and Revenue Balance…
Debt: the big lie on which Abbott built a budget Date May 23, 2014 Kenneth Davidson Senior columnist at The Age ‘The impact of the budget is not only wicked but wasteful.’ The 2014 federal budget is built on the big lie that the Australian economy is facing a debt crisis. The proposition that the […]
Student Protests: Why Can’t They Be More Innovative?
Hey hey! Ho ho! those ’70s demos have to go! Date May 25, 2014 Annabel Crabb In this high-tech, connected world, students should lead the way in innovative protests and drop tired rabble-rousing tactics. The last few decades have turned our world upside down. The end of the Cold War changed politics. The advent of […]
Church Attendance Surveys: Fibs or exaggerations?
Phone Versus On-Line Honesty by MARTIN E. MARTY Monday | May 26 2014 ¢â‚¬Å“What fresh hell is this? ¢â‚¬ was poet Dorothy Parker ¢â‚¬â„¢s question when her phone or doorbell rang. Opinion-surveyors and telephone-pollsters may often be greeted by Parkeresque answerers, but data now suggests that many of the called choose to be nice to the phoners […]
10 POLITICAL Things You Can’t Do While Following Jesus
by Mark Sandlin 06-12-2013 In response to my last article, ¢â‚¬Å“10 Things You Can’t Do While Following Jesus, ¢â‚¬ I was accused multiple times of being political. All I was trying to do was follow Jesus. So, I thought it’d be interesting (and generate tons more hate mail) to show what a list would actually look like if […]
Homily/Eulogy – for a good man, Rob Haley
Today we are saying goodbye to a very special person, Rob Haley. Rob was born on a cold, foggy evening on the 19th of July 1924, in Bunyip, a small town in Gippsland, Victoria, Australia: the first child to Alf and Florence Haley. Last week – on 13th May 2014 – he passed away peacefully […]
Preaching: Preachers other preachers read (and preach!)
I talk to lots of clergy – in conferences and one to one ¢â‚¬“ and have a pretty good idea about their preaching styles, and the other preachers they read for inspiration. (An interesting thing happened on the way to writing this chapter, Mothers ¢â‚¬â„¢ Day 2014. My wife has produced one of the two or […]
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