Our Posthuman 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?

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