Shimon Cowen – ABC Religion and Ethics – 9 May 2012 (Source: http://www.abc.net.au/religion/articles/2012/05/09/3498817.htm) Politics, understood as a moral vocation, requires humility to accept truth – and being wary of the prejudices that might lead one to dismiss it or the fears that might keep one from affirming it. Over the years, I have frequently studied a famous essay by the …
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The Limits of Secularism and the Search for Meaning
Author: Jonathan Sacks – ABC Religion and Ethics – 17 May 2012 (Source: http://www.abc.net.au/religion/articles/2012/05/17/3505407.htm) Religion survives because it answers three questions: Who am I? Why am I here? How shall I live? We will always ask these questions, and religion has always been our greatest heritage of meaning. In 2000, the Harvard sociologist Robert Putnam published a book called Bowling …
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ModeOfLife Become love as God exhorts us, for this is the true starting point for changing your life and the world. For it is love that will bring respect, justice and equity into the world, not our personal opinion of what justice or equity is.