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NationalJuly 13

Curriculum missing out on religion

A prominent theologian says parents are confused about the word "religion", which can make them more likely to pull their children out of religious classes.

OpinionDecember 22

Faith and reason: Scandalous women in Christ's family tree

So what if there was a hint of scandal about Mary, says Ian Harris. The hope for a messiah was kept alive even through flawed human beings in Jesus' lineage.

EditorialDecember 22

Expression, and taking offence

It sometimes seems that the only way not to offend someone somewhere is to be bland and keep your head down.

OpinionDecember 22

Start of the greatest story ever told

Christmas with its inextricable mixture of the sacred and the secular has a universal and eternal appeal, writes Garth George.

OpinionMarch 16

Trite dismissals of faith lack relevance

We generally enjoy reading Joe Bennett's columns, which are usually informative, thoughtful and entertaining, but his offering last week (ODT, 10.3.11) was of a rather different character and warrants a response. For reasons unclear to us Bennett took the occurrence of the Christchurch earthquake as an opportunity to launch an attack on the Christian church and what it stands for. There appear to be three principal points that Bennett wished to make.

TravelJanuary 17

Still crazy about stones

I grew up with a father crazy about megaliths, monoliths and "stupid old rocks put here a trillion years ago so Dad could bore us with them today".

TravelJanuary 10

New Territories, old traditions

WorldOctober 19

Vatican claims Homer Simpson secret Catholic

The Vatican newspaper has not been shy in its praise of the long-running animated TV program The Simpsons - and now we may know why.

DunedinSeptember 28

Obama's spiritual adviser to speak in Dunedin

Jim Wallis lives and works in Washington DC, the political heart of the United States.

South OtagoSeptember 27

Sainthood changes church to St Mary's

Balclutha's Catholic parishioners are gearing up to celebrate the legacy of soon-to-be-saint Mary MacKillop, helper of disadvantaged families in rural communities more than 100 years ago.

OpinionSeptember 13

'Golf tram' causes church controversy

• Wellington: Sabbath observance came under the consideration of the Wellington Presbytery today

OpinionSeptember 6

Holiday-makers to get church, not boatsheds

• The question of providing religious services for summer holiday-makers in the country was before the Dunedin Presbytery at its meeting yesterday in relation, particularly, to the growing popularity of Warrington and contiguous seaside resorts.

TravelAugust 30

Pecs flexes its cultural muscle

Dead Romans, Christian kings, marauding Mongols, Ottoman occupiers, Hapsburg edifices, pioneering painters and a modernised downtown: All the highlights (and lowlights) of Hungarian history are on display in the little city of Pecs.

BusinessJune 20

App brings iPad to church altars

An Italian priest has developed an application that will let priests celebrate Mass with an iPad on the altar instead of the regular Roman missal.

DunedinJune 9

South to wait for contentious advertising

Controversial ads promoting atheism will be appearing on billboards in Auckland, Wellington Christchurch in the coming weeks, but the South will have to wait a little longer.

NationalJune 9

Controversial atheist campaign to hit billboards

Controversial ads promoting atheism will soon appear on billboards throughout New Zealand after a transport company backtracked on allowing them on its buses.

EditorialMay 26

Ethics and 'Dr God'

Even in the rational world of biological science, the publication in Science of the findings of an American-based team of researchers caused considerable excitement.

NationalMay 11

Anglican Church backs tough drinking measures

The Anglican Church has backed a number of strong measures to try to deal with binge drinking.

OpinionApril 29

Secular existence can promote morality, too

Is morality inevitably twinned with religion? Emily Menkes considers secular humanism.

OpinionMarch 31

God is interested

Richard Dawson suggests that even, or perhaps especially, at Easter, God is concerned with the "ordinary stuff" of people's lives.

DunedinMarch 23

Three-hour farewell for priest

About 200 people turned out to farewell the Very Rev Father Ilyan Eades in Dunedin yesterday.

NewsMarch 22

Tune in to 'inner scientist' to filter nonsense

Much of the recent debate about climate change involves an "invented controversy" promoted through "disinfor- mation", award-winning US physicist Prof Lawrence Krauss warns.

OpinionMarch 4

Faith and reason: no multiple choice to gospel

The "plain truth" of Jesus' ministry is not to be found in the red tape of academia, says Ivan Grindlay.

NationalMarch 3

Destiny Church asks member spay tithes by direct debit

New revelations have emerged of the inner workings of Destiny Church, including claims of eftpos terminals being used to take collections, men-only church meetings and numerous tithing nightmares.

The MixFebruary 26

A way of thinking

Dunedin gets a new Anglican bishop today. Tom McKinlay talks about God and C. S. Lewis with Dr Kelvin Wright.

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