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Blasphemy, protest and freedom
Michael Cook | 11 February 2006 | 1
The Danish cartoon furore makes it clear that Enlightenment values will not enable the West to dialogue with Islam. But there is a way forward, as Christians have already demonstrated.
The real power of love
Walter Macken | 09 February 2006
Benedict XVI's first encyclical has left many worldly commentators speechless. No harm in that as Deus Caritas Est is a document first of all to be pondered.
A life more involved
Guiomar Barbi | 07 February 2006
Bono of U2 and Live Aid fame was on Capitol Hill again last week, reminding us that if we really believe in human equality we will do more to relieve the burdens of Africa and the developing world.
Volunteer tourism: the give and take
Carolyn Moynihan | 03 February 2006 | 1
Young people seeking a focus for their idealism increasingly find that a spell of volunteering in a developing country helps.
Fra Angelico rediscovered
Sarah Phelps Smith | 02 February 2006 | 1
There is always something new to be discovered about a great artist, as a recent visit to New York's Metropolitan Museum showed.
Lawful but not just
Joseph Azize | 01 February 2006
A few years ago Australian Aboriginal communities were asked what they thought of euthanasia. Their response was thoughtful, deep and negative.
Healing a 2000-year-old rift
Jim Pope | 27 January 2006
Since Vatican II, Christians and Jews have done much to heal their tormented relationship. The problem is, says Jewish scholar David Novak in this MercatorNet interview, not enough of us know about it.
Famine in Kenya: an avoidable disaster
Martyn Drakard | 27 January 2006
Famine has returned to Eastern Africa and the government of Kenya is ill-prepared. How is it that a country which fed its people during a worse famine more than 20 years ago is now caught off guard?
Religion flourishes but atheism looks sick
Carolyn Moynihan | 23 January 2006
Why does atheism get such a good press and religion such a bad one when, as a global survey shows, religious people outnumber atheists eleven to one?
Killing me softly with his song
Michael Cook | 18 January 2006
Euthanasia is back in the news. And no one is more qualified to lead the movement into the 21st century than Philip Nitschke.
Neutrality follies
Richard Bastien | 16 January 2006 | 2
Canada’s chief justice reckons morals are “subjective, arbitrary and unworkable”. Hmm. It’s an interesting principle for drafting laws.
Women converts find liberation in Islam
Carolyn Moynihan | 12 January 2006 | 5
Thousands of western women each year are exchanging hedonism for the headscarf and fasting at Ramadan. Does Islam have something to offer women that Christianity does not?
No more business as usual for stem cell research
Michael Cook | 12 January 2006
Revelations of fraud and unethical conduct in the world’s leading embryonic stem cell lab could lead to a rethink of stem cell ethics.
60 years after Nuremberg, how much have we learned?
Cason Cheely | 10 January 2006 | 1
The trial of German doctors who used prisoners for ghastly experiments during World War II is still relevant today.
Canadians battle over Church-State separation
Richard Bastien | 04 January 2006
The bitter debate over whether private religious beliefs should influence what policies politicians support has become an issue in this month’s election in Canada.
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