by Sean Reilly | Jul 14, 2008
During Christianity’s early years, as the church moved from being a series of transitional movements to a collection of settled institutions, a blurring occurred in the distinction between Pax Christi, the kind of peace made possible by Jesus the Son of God, and Pax...
by Sean Reilly | Feb 28, 2008
William Hague, the Conservative MP for Richmond and current Shadow Foreign Secretary, has made what many regard as a remarkable political transition from an electorally unsuccessful Leader of the Opposition mocked for his baseball-cap diplomacy to a ‘national...
by Sean Reilly | Feb 10, 2008
Funnily enough, I declined the opportunity to attend the inaugural Temple Festival lecture given by Dr Rowan Williams on 7 February. I figured that I could read his talk online, and that it wouldn’t be that exciting an event. What do I know? By mid-afternoon the...
by Sean Reilly | Nov 25, 2007
In commenting on the significance of the defeat of John Howard and the Coalition Liberal/National Party government less than twenty-four hours after the election, and assessing the victory of the Australian Labor Party and Kevin Rudd, one needs to bear in mind that...
by Sean Reilly | Nov 19, 2007
This is the text of a speech at an RSA lecture meeting in response to a new booklet from the Humanist Philosophers’ Group, The Case for Secularism: A Neutral State in an Open Society. ——————- As the director of a Christian...