Stephanie Dowrick
Dr Stephanie Dowrick (PhD, D.Min) is the author of more than 20 books including Forgiveness & Other Acts of Love, Intimacy & Solitude, Seeking the Sacred: Transforming Our View of Ourselves and One Another. Her most recent work includes Your name is not Anxious: A very personal guide to putting anxiety in its place; also, co-written with Mark S Burrows, You Are the Future: Living the Questions with Rainer Maria Rilke. A former publisher, and founder of The Women’s Press in London, and an ordained inter-faith minister, she has been a peace and social justice activist since her teens. She contributes widely to public and social media. She can be reached via social media or at stephaniedowrick.com
Stephanie's recent articles
1 May 2018
STEPHANIE DOWRICK. Would ordaining women save the Catholic Church?
In our 21st century, and even allowing for widespread secularism especially in the West, about 2.2 billion people still call themselves Christian. Of these, about 1.2 billion are Roman Catholic. This number is only slightly smaller than the total number of Muslims (1.3 billion). The overall picture is clear: Catholicism is still a force to be reckoned with. Whats more, its influence for better and worse goes well beyond the parish gate. So maybe youd prefer to ask, Should the Catholic Church be saved (from itself)?
12 April 2018
STEPHANIE DOWRICK. Taxing questions
The duty of any government to keep its citizens safe is apparently taken very seriously in this nation of ours. It justifies the existence of the largest department over which this government presides and gives Peter Dutton, the Minister for the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, unprecedented powers with a seemingly unlimited budget. But with the latest revelations of the ways in which the Governments principal revenue collection agency, the Australian Taxation Office, is said to be hounding some very small companies and far-from-rich individuals, while failing to bring into line some very large companies apparently paying little or...
14 February 2018
Issues of Integrity, Not Sex
The story of a middle-aged husband and father talking up the failure of his marriage to justify his relationship with a much younger and previously childless woman is too clichd to have much drama. The effect of this on the abandoned wife and, in this case, four daughters, would of course make for a story of genuine poignancy. We may even wonder what caused the younger woman to assume a future with a man who is not only married but an avowed and vocal upholder of traditional family values, whatever they are. (Loyalty, honesty, transparency and kindness could be a...
31 January 2018
STEPHANIE DOWRICK. Weapons of Moral Destruction
A few days ago I drove with a friend from Sydney to Leura in NSWs Blue Mountains. We were heading towards a meditation centre and on the way shared views about social justice and most especially peace activism. As long-time meditators, we were tossing ideas back and forth about how we can most effectively align political activity sometimes driven by outrage - with personal peace of mind.