Posts Tagged ‘Christian faith’

Pacific women, God and wellbeing

Monday, March 11th, 2024
Pacific women

International Women’s Day on March 8 draws attention to the lives of women. My research explores, in the inner lives of Pacific women, how their relationship with God can affect their wellbeing, and how their image of God relates to their relationship with their parents. How we name, visualise and describe God is most often Read more

Don’t write off Christianity

Monday, August 8th, 2022
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Despite the sins of its members, the Christian faith is far greater than opinion polls in the news. It shouldn’t surprise, given the 2021 census results concerning religion, those critical of Christianity and the Catholic Church have used the fall in numbers to suggest religion is moribund and no longer relevant to Australian society. With Read more

Christian faith helped jailed cardinal survive prison

Thursday, June 18th, 2020

Cardinal George Pell says his Christian faith helped him survive prison, and offered advice on how to overcome grief and stressful situations. Pell spoke to an online silent retreat hosted by the Australian Catholic Students’ Association about suffering and the tools one can use to remain steadfast in faith through hard times. Pell says his Read more

Where are the world’s most committed Christians

Monday, August 27th, 2018
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A newly published study by the Pew Research Center shows Christians in Africa and Latin America tend to pray more frequently, attend religious services more regularly and consider religion more important in their lives than Christians elsewhere in the world. But the United States also have comparatively high levels of committed Christians. The study analysed Read more

Silver Fern plays to please God

Friday, October 9th, 2015

Grace Rasmussen has been included in the Silver Fern Squad for the Constellation Cup series beginning Oct 20. As recently as last year she wasn’t considered good enough to go to the Commonwealth Games. A nice player, and person, questions existed about whether the theology student was robust enough for international netball. Rasmussen says her Read more

Tides of ocean and cycles of faith

Tuesday, October 15th, 2013

In The Unquiet Grave Cyril Connelly, the 20th century Anglo-Irish critic, writer, and editor, having acknowledged the existence of the thousands of people like him (“…Liberals without a belief in progress, Democrats who despise their fellow-men, Pagans who still live by Christian morals, Intellectuals who cannot find the intellect sufficient—unsatisfied Materialists…”), concludes nonetheless that “there can be no Read more

Vatican official blasts Americans’ faith

Friday, December 14th, 2012

A “grey pragmatism and mediocrity” has infiltrated Christianity in America, according to an official of the Vatican’s Latin America commission. Professor Guzman Carriquiry, secretary for the Pontifical Commission for Latin America, said there is a growing tendency for Americans’ faith to be lived with a lack of enthusiasm, lukewarmness and ignorance. “How many Christians today Read more