Taming the Terror Within and Without

Some of us like to hear those ‘master and disciple’ stories from time to time.  Here is one.

A master and disciple were seated in the tea house taking their tea.  As the master poured some tea into their cups the disciple began talking about recent events.

“Master, news from the village reports that some special forces have killed a known terrorist leader who was in hiding!”

“Yes,” replied the…

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Some discussion is taking place in Catholic circles about blogs and revitalizing faith. It seems, however, that they are a mixed blessing where some of the "loud and proud" have bordered on harassing and nasty. See this link http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=23664 .



Surely, there is healthy cyber-sharing going on as well.



We've all witnessed some really good articles, blogs and other posts. Do we know… Continue

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rev-james-martin-sj/the-patron-saint-of-abuse_b_744484.html .





I know the link that I have posted might seem specifically Christian and very Catholic. But, think again. How many of us have experienced - or, had related to us by other persons - moments where religious leaders or agencies acted in ways to protect the culpability of some of its… Continue

Recently, cyberspace has seen some lively discussions on the pew survey on religious knowledge and also on openness to intellectual curiosity in religions.

This has me asking some questions.

Looking at the "out there" or more objective details what do we know about the religions that we ourselves profess to belong to? That is, what does a reality check on our own religious knowledge look like? What do we know about other religions that differ from our own religion?

Looking at the… Continue

Being a post-grad student (doing a masters in catholic theology) I am reading all the time. But, there are some interest books that are not directly related to my study that I also have on the go. There is usually a novel or something similar. There is also the other interest book. Continue

In this link from the Australian Newspaper and also in the Canberra Times "Panorama" this weekend The Encyclopedia of Religions of Religion in Australia , edited by James Jupp is featured. Could projects like this be signposts of unity and understanding?…



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Parliament of World Religions Impressions Blog 15/12/2009



In the mid 1990’s a man in his mid twenties who was training to be a catholic priest was wandering through the CBD of Canberra, Australia. It was a cold winter’s day and as he stumbled upon a Bookmart he went inside. Among other things a book stared at him called “Global Ethic”, edited by Hans Kung and others. It was about a Parliament of World Religions and they had written an introduction that was just fabulous. Years… Continue