Respect for human life is not just a religious value. It is a foundational value of all societies in which reasonable people would want to live. More
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The problem with the dead and damaged bodies scattered across Thomas Hirschhorn's work is not that they offend the effete sensibilities of Western viewers by presenting too much, but that they communicate nothing. They are what St. Augustine called "inanibus phantasmibus": hollow images that can neither mediate real contact nor point beyond themselves. They can only fascinate or horrify. At best, they can stimulate feelings of vague compassion or shallow distress - feelings that are at the mercy of the flickering moral conscience of the West. More
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The Belgian parliament has approved by a large majority a bill which will see the removal of all age restrictions on euthanasia, beco… More
Life Matters 11 Feb 2014
Are you empathetic? Do you have the imaginative ability to step into the shoes of another to try and understand what they are feeling… More
RN Religion Ethics Report 12 Feb 2014
Author and academic Marion Maddox argues in her latest book that the proliferation of faith-based schools, paid for often largely by … More
RN Religion Ethics Report 12 Feb 2014
Fifty years after the Second Vatican Council discussed the best ways for Catholics to worship, they are still debating the best forms… More
Encounter 1 Feb 2014
Born and raised a Baptist in remote West Texas, Christian Wiman left Texas and his faith behind for many years. He travelled the worl… More
Encounter 8 Feb 2014
A renewed interest in hallucinogensparticularly the Amazonian tea ayahuascais giving the substances a new image that emphasises spiri… More
Stateline Queensland 14 Feb 2014
The Chief Executive Officer of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse Janette Dines joins Matt Wordsworth in the studio ahead of Brisbane hearings into a Toowoomba school. More
Stateline Queensland 14 Feb 2014
The Chief Executive Officer of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse Janette Dines joins Matt Wordsworth in the studio ahead of Brisbane hearings into a Toowoomba school. More
7.30 13 Feb 2014
As we approach the Gallipoli landing's 100th anniversary, Australia is preparing an enormous celebration but an Iraq and Afghanistan veteran says Anzac Day is becoming a festival for the dead and the money would be better spe… More
7.30 12 Feb 2014
Victoria's independent MP for Frankston, Geoff Shaw, holds the balance of power in the State's parliament and played a part in its Speaker's resignation but he says his actions are guided by his Christianity. More
