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Greg Clarke And Justine Toh
9/11: Re-membering absent bodies
Published date: Monday, September 11, 2006
By: Greg Clarke And Justine Toh
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On September 11, 2006, CASE ran a two-hour seminar about the imagery of 9/11 and religious interpretations of its meaning.

Greg Clarke and Justine Toh presented reflections on the way the events we summarise as ‘9/11’ have been depicted, are now being reconstructed and retold in films and documentaries, and the various symbols and iconic photographs that are now associated with it. These reflections are undergirded by the worldview and

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Truly Omen-ous?
Published date: Tuesday, August 08, 2006
By: Justine Toh

A re-make of the classic horror film highlights the problematic apologetic opportunities afforded by the genre.

There’s a Quit Smoking ad on Sydney buses doing the rounds at the moment: a cigarette that metamorphoses into a foot, some toes of which have rotted off due to gangrene, a side-effect of a smoking-related disease. The intent is threateningly didactic: this is what can happen if you smoke, so stop it.

The same purpose could be attributed

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Wizards know better
Published date: Monday, July 18, 2005
By: Justine Toh
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Compare and contrast the hero of the Christian faith with the actions of Harry Potter, Gandalf, Angel and other film and book heroes.

“A wizard should know better!” is the tree shepherd’s outraged exclamation when he surveys the carnage wreaked by Saruman, the White Wizard of Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings. Saruman had devastated Treebeard’s home by uprooting and destroying all the trees in his realm of Isengard. Worse, he had dispatched the

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