Zadok Perspectives Issue 86

A breath of fresh air by Alison Sampson

Gender and ethical decision-making by Denise Cooper-Clarke

Sexing up God: A Christian perspective on gender movements by Carolyn Francis and Darren Cronshaw

Women's Wisdom by Ros White

Tim Winton's faith transcript of an interview with Rachel Kohn

Religion in media by Howard Langmead

Reading the Bible poorly by David Fagg

Jacques Derida - positively deconstructed by Simon Jones

The Turning
Review by Gordon Preece

Reading is believing: the Christian faith through literature and film
Review by Katherine Crawford

Cash Values: the value of money, the nature of worth.
Review by Chris White

Identity
Review by Mick Pope

Selling ourselves short: why we struggle to earn a living and have a life.
Review by Darren Cronshaw

The first church of U2
Review by Paul Mitchell

S136 Fathering in Western Christianity and Islam.
By Daniel Johnson
Autumn 2005
This paper develops an intercultural perspective on fathering ideals in Western Islam and Christianity. Religious traditions and contemporary advice-giving literaure are compared for what they each teach abut ideal fathering. Christian fathers are inspired by God the Father, and Muslims by Muhammad the father to fulfil theor own roles as fathers, recognising it as a God-given and eternally significant role.

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S137 Humanity Uprooted: Stem cells, refugees, and reconciliation.
By Gordon Preece
Autumn 2005
This paper looks at the seemingly unrelated issues of Stem cells, Refugees and Aboriginals and argues that they are related in several ways:
1. Invisible and inaudible, private, not public
2. Reductionism of their human and cultural wholeness
3. De-humanised and de-personalised by language
4. Viewed in alienating, consequentialist terms
5. Consequentialist links to the alleged value free nature of science, technology and bureaucracy
6. Resurgence of survival of the fittest Social Darwinism
7. Rigidly reciprocal form of mutual obligation