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Two articles on community, secular and sacred

ABC has two interesting articles on community, the first on secular society, the second on the international Anglican church. There's a good article on the ABC's Drum on the Q&A failure-of-a-debate between Richard Dawkins and George Pell. Try not to let Scott Stephens ' pontificative pollysyllability put you off, it's quite a good social comment. Basic point: we're so used to doing whatever we want, just coz we want to, we no longer have any basis for shared community. Questions without answers in a Kingdom of Whatever . Then John Millbank has an excellent article on the future of the international Anglican communion. Note his presuppositions about the nature of the church: "... the Anglican Communion [is] part of the Universal Catholic Church (it has never been officially identified as "Protestant")..." The Anglican denomination has been "struggling against" Puritanism and Calvinism. And this only goes to show there really ar...