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Monday, 2 October 2017
| Ethos editor
Highlights of links to online news and opinion pieces from September 2017.
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Monday, 25 September 2017
| Rex Dale
Melancholy is central to the human condition, writes Jacky Bowring, and we are as much drawn to it as we are repelled by it. Extolling the benefits of sadness, Bowring questions our obsession with the pursuit of happiness: 'To lose melancholy is to be deprived of one of the imagination’s last refuges'.
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Monday, 4 September 2017
| Ethos editor
Highlights of links to online news and opinion pieces from August 2017.
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Sunday, 3 September 2017
| Sarah Judd-Lam
Based on a true story, The Big Sick provides a realistic depiction of a cross-cultural relationship. In doing so, it deals with some pretty serious subjects – racism, unemployment, relational breakdown, major illness, and the importance of honesty, tenacity and love through thick and thin.
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Friday, 18 August 2017
| Gordon Preece
Like the best futurist literature, The Handmaid's Tale shouldn’t be dismissed as mere fantasy. But lest we confuse fundamentalism with the freeing fundamentals of Christian faith, a comparison with Marilynne Robinson's depiction in Gilead of humble Christ-like love and service is a good antidote. Will they turn Robinson's Gilead into a TV series?
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Saturday, 12 August 2017
| Karly Michelle Edgar
I often feel very limited in my impact on society when I am confronted with the issues presented in The Handmaid’s Tale. But after reading Beauty Will Save the World I am reminded that it truly is the small moments focused on the love and care of Jesus that can make the difference. What if the greatest act of subversion was to care for others?
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Tuesday, 1 August 2017
| Ethos editor
Highlights of links to online news and opinion pieces from July 2017.
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Monday, 31 July 2017
| Amanda Jackson
Tolerance is a good thing, but it can end up meaning that nothing is sinful. Often, too, our ‘tolerance’ only extends to those within our own tribe - we tolerate what we agree with and hate everything else.
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Sunday, 30 July 2017
| Megan Powell du Toit
The message of Handmaid’s Tale is not that ‘this could happen’, but that ‘this is already happening’, albeit in subtle and insidious ways: the subjugation of women, unequal structures and the abuse of power and religion.
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Monday, 24 July 2017
| Sarah Judd-Lam
Far from being 'anti-Christian', The Handmaid’s Tale series warns against three key dangers for the church: graceless religion, tolerating abuse and engaging in moral hypocrisy. We would do well to heed its message.
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