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Compass Summer Recess

13/11/2016, 6.30pm

O RADIX JESSE

4/12/2016, 10:00pm

FRENCH ELECTION, BROKEN RITES & IDENTITY POLITICS

30/11/2016, 17:30 pm

Gospel Voices

4/12/2016, 5.30am

The Holy Island of Lindisfarne *RPT*

4/12/2016, 11.30am

Australian Religious Thought

4/12/2016, 6.05pm

art, spirit & faith traditions, business ethics

4/12/2016, 10:00pm

Rowan Williams

How can politics be set free from the deadly polarity between empty theatrics and corrupt, complacent plutocracy. What will it take to reacquaint people with control over their communities, shared and realistic values, patience with difference and confidence in their capacity for intelligent negotiation? It's the opposite of what Trump has appealed to. The question is whether the appalling clarity of this opposition can wake us up to work harder for the authentic and humane politics that seems in such short supply.

Timothy Snyder

Writers reflected upon how he was changing the language. He defined the world as a source of endless threat and other countries as cradles of countless enemies. Global conspiracies were supposedly directed at his country and its uniquely righteous people. His left-wing opponents and the national minorities, he insisted, were not individuals but expressions of implacable international enmity to the righteous demands of his own people. He said that he spoke for his people, that he was their voice. He had no concern for factuality; what he said about others was meant to generate a certain fiction.

Charles Taylor

I'm with Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hannah Arendt, Rousseau, Montesquieu. I believe it's a higher mode of being to participate in your own self-government ... We all seek a sense of what it would be like to be fully connected to something. We all have a sense of what really living, and not just existing, would be. We know that there's a level of life that's rare to attain. And whether we attain that or not can be a source of deep satisfaction or shame to us.