# Roundup: Burnside anniversary, school chaplains, McLuhan, Western-Muslim tensions

> For 100 years they have supported and provided for disadvantaged children, young people and families in western Sydney.

22 July 2011 · News

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## [Charity celebrates 100 years of helping families](https://www.parramattasun.com.au/news/local/news/general/charity-celebrates-100-years-of-helping-families/2233917.aspx)

For 100 years they have supported and provided for disadvantaged children, young people and families in western Sydney.

## [Christian group cleared of urging students to convert](https://www.theage.com.au/victoria/christian-group-cleared-of-urging-students-to-convert-20110720-1hoy1.html)

A federal investigation into the Christian group that provides religious education in Victorian schools has found no evidence that its chaplains tried to convert students in breach of government guidelines.

## [Why bother with Marshall McLuhan?](https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/why-bother-with-marshall-mcluhan)

Once we realise the centrality of the oppositional or *isometric* method to McLuhan’s thought, we are prepared to approach a question that has long befuddled McLuhan’s critics and biographers: the relationship between his ideas and his deep Catholic Christianity.

## [Western, Muslim tensions persist, but there’s a tiny thaw](https://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/07/21/western-muslim-tensions-persist-but-theres-a-tiny-thaw/)

Westerners and Muslims continue to harbor negative attitudes toward each other, but there’s a glimmer of change in Western attitudes, a new survey found.