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post-human future?
Finding
my place by
Alison Sampson
A while ago, a woman accosted me at a party. She forcefully pointed
out that I was irresponsible for staying home with my children
because it told my daughters that a woman's place was limited
to the home.
It's
a wonderful world by Peter Crabb
Greed is both a collective and individual issue. Collective public
pressure through the ballot box is just one avenue for bringing
about change, but in terms of governments, it must not stop there.
When
is a human not a human?
by
Denise Cooper-Clarke
Even if we were agreed that species boundaries do exst, the moral
question remains - what is wrong with crossing them?
Cloning:
trading in the female body
by Melinda Tankard-Reist
Women have become invisible in the glitz and hype that the cloning
debate has become.
Abraham
Lincoln, depression, and the value of sadness
by Andrew Errington
Christians in particular, have profound reasons to be uncomfortable
with the implication that all sadness is bad, and that wellness
equals happiness.
Religion
2.0 by Paul Emerson Teusner
Religion online is having a greater impact on how we experience
church than ever before. As the internet moves from Oldweb to
Web 2.0, will religion in Australia also be replaced by something
better, more user-friendly?
Deep
Justice by Gavan O'Farrell
Because of the different approaches taken to the Love Commandment,
I call the Right "God-specialists" and the Left "neighbour-specialists.
We are supposed to be mindful of the whole commandmant, of course,
but some of us tend to lean one way: it is possible to lean so
much that half the Commandment is virtually ignored.
A
posthuman future? by Ian Barns
What difference does a gospel vision of our post-human future
make to the way we respond to the possibilities and dangers posed
by our present technological order?
BOOK
& FILM REVIEWS
Coercive reconciliation:
stabilise, normalise, exit aboriginal Australe
The ethical imagination: journeys of the human spirit
Making babies: personal IVF stories
Stem cell research and human cloning: contemporary challenges
to our humanity
The lives of others.
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