Grief and faith are paradoxically and intimately intertwined. Whether you turn towards a higher power within bereavement, or turn away, death facilitates a confrontation with spirituality.
Browsing: religion
Muslims and Hindus are not friends in the Indian Subcontinent. It is not something I understood the depth of until…
Thus, I was ten and emancipating myself from God, deciding that if my ‘test’ for this duniya was to love a man who did not deserve it, to show him mercy and forgiveness, then I would simply not sit the test. It was shortly after that I decided that I no longer loved my father.
When was the last time you hiked up your sleeves and ladled out soup at your local community centre? Can you recall when you phoned your ageing family member? Perhaps the last time you rescued a cat from a tree?
Maybe we were too young to be introduced to such religious organisations that pressured us to be their future and spread alarming dogmas about sex, the queer community and “allegations” about anyone in their appointed church. It’s time that we become our own individuals.
Although I no longer believe in what it represents, I still pass that neon blue cross every morning and night. When it was first installed, all I could do was stop and stare. I hope that you have the same feeling — a mixture of blind awe, fury and grace — as you explore the brilliant work of each writer and artist who has contributed to this edition.
The Catholic Church owns about $30 billion worth of property in Australia. The total wealth of the Sydney Catholic Archdiocese is $1.3 billion. Another powerful church, the Sydney Anglican Church, owns almost half of Glebe, some of which it bought when the land was first up for sale in the early colonial period.
There is a true beauty in being queer and Muslim.
Medieval horrors, shadowy cloisters, and Virgin Mary sex toys. Paul Verhoeven’s new film about a lesbian nun affair promises an irreverent approach to queerness in the Church.
Throwing a golden apple into religious discourse.
