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Sectarian wedge politics simply cannot overcome the fact that basically we all share the same values.
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When it comes to determining when the month of Ramadan begin and end, each year sees a fresh lunar-tic controversy.
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By Donna Jacobs Sife
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Randa Abdel Fattah's novel about an Australian Muslim teen's coming of age is reviewed by ten year old Aussie Muslim Adalya Nash Hussein.
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Reflections on Christmas and Eid al Adha
by Irfan Yusuf
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by Andrew Hamilton
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by Shakira Hussein
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From time to time, Christian and Muslim leaders talk about each other's faiths. That's religion. And that's life. At least it should be.
By Irfan Yusuf
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Donna Jacobs Sife reflects on the need to remember the lessons of a nomad life
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Shakira Hussein reviews Amanda Lohrey's Quarterly Essay on Australia's evangelical revival
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As an Australian Jew, Donna Jacobs Sife find Uluru to be "another Jerusalem" - the site of a spirituality that, like Judaism, is born of the desert. But she is also horrified by a first-hand glimpse of the dispossession experienced by Aboriginal Australians.
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This week saw the graduation of the first ten young Catholic women to complete a Graduate Certificate in Interfaith Relations at the Australian Catholic University, under the sponsorship of the Commission for Australian Catholic Women. Chantelle Ogilvie, one of the inaugural fellows, reflects on their experiences and on the nature of interfaith dialogue.
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Members of multifaith familes are under pressure to choose sides. But in a multifaith society, we must refuse to make such choices if we are to be fully alive.
by Shakira Hussein
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by Anthony H. Johns
In Memory of Father Laurie Fitzgerald OP
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After celebrating Pesach, when Jews remember their deliverance from slavery in Egypt, Donna Jacobs Sife reflects on the obligation that the privileged owe to the disenfranchised.
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Christ always made time for the saints of his time. If we want to be Christ-like, we should make time for the saints of our era.
by Irfan Yusuf
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Donna Jacobs Sife reveals the complications of marking Pesach (Passover) in these times of multicultural, multireligious, blended families...
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John Safran first gained the attention of Australian audiences on the ABC's Race Around the World, in the course of which he streaked through the Holy City of Jerusalem, and had a curse placed on his ex-girlfriend. He maintained this reputation for daring, insightful satire on SBS, with Music Jamboree and two shows focusing on religion: John Safran Vs God and Speaking in Tongues, which he co-hosts with Father Bob Macguire. On John Safran Vs God, he hoaxed the radical British imam Abu Hamza into issuing a fatwa calling for the death of rival television personality Rove McManus, attended a voodoo ritual in Haiti which had unfortunate consequences for a goat, and might have succeeded in joining the Ku Klux Klan if only they didn't have a minor hang-up about Jews. The series concluded with a grueling episode-long exorcism, conducted by American Christian Bob Larson. In comparison, the talk-show Speaking in Tongues at first appears much more sedate. But the issues under discussion are just as explosive: race, euthanasia, and of course, religious identity. Towards the end of the series, Safran talked to Shalom, Pax, Salam about his approach to religion, his career, his future plans, and the advantages of living a confusing life.
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In this sad little fairytale, our heroines learn that Australian newspaper editors are as committed to the idea of Muslim female modesty as any mullah on the face of the earth...
by Alia Imtoual and Shakira Hussein
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Fellowship in Interfaith Relations offered to young Catholic women
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An intercultural dialogue between two Australian women.
by Nelly Lahoud
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by Donna Jacobs Sife
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by Anthony H. Johns
In memory of Father Laurie Fitzgerald O.P.
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by Anita Shroot
Young Australians brought face to face with the legacy of the Holocaust and the need to confront racism and persecution
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by Helen Pringle
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The case of an Afghan convert to Christianity prompts Australian Muslim Fatima Ahmed to reflect that Muslims living in the West have good reason to value religious freedom.
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Links to articles of interest elsewhere on the web
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