The journey to self-consciousness
Religion & Spirituality - 24/09/2024 - 3 comments |
Miracles: the dead living ones and the living dead ones.
Religion & Spirituality - 29/06/2023 - 36 comments |
God save the King!
Political Philosophy - 8/06/2023 - 10 comments |
The freedom of the Christian
Religion & Spirituality - 19/04/2023 - 72 comments |
Christmas, a time to welcome the creator of the world
Religion & Spirituality - 23/12/2022 - 70 comments |
Let’s do the right thing!
Religion & Spirituality - 18/11/2022 - 59 comments |
What has Christianity ever done for us?
Religion & Spirituality - 19/10/2022 - 27 comments |
Evangelicalism and John Calvin
Religion & Spirituality - 28/07/2022 - 10 comments |
Reading scripture in church
Religion & Spirituality - 26/05/2022 - 38 comments |
The fragmentation of society by difference
Political Philosophy - 17/02/2022 - 18 comments |
Preacher as prompter
Religion & Spirituality - 20/01/2022 - 3 comments |
The beginning and end of human life: the view from Australia
Law & Liberties - 29/12/2021 - 68 comments |
Why be joyful at Christmas?
Religion & Spirituality - 22/12/2021 - 14 comments |
The chaos of politics
Political Philosophy - 9/12/2021 - 4 comments |
The tomb of the rich
Religion & Spirituality - 13/10/2021 - 13 comments |
The path to alternative truth
Religion & Spirituality - 9/09/2021 - 17 comments |
Discerning the spirits
Religion & Spirituality - 12/08/2021 - 20 comments |
How does God work in the world?
Religion & Spirituality - 2/07/2021 - 19 comments |
If God is dead, why do we miss Him so?
Religion & Spirituality - 4/05/2021 - 27 comments |
Why not evil?
Religion & Spirituality - 18/03/2021 - 10 comments |
The pursuit of happiness
Religion & Spirituality - 3/02/2021 - 29 comments |
Death and the Lords of the Universe
Religion & Spirituality - 18/01/2021 - 28 comments |
Is culture enough? Christianity and art
Religion & Spirituality - 17/11/2020 - 4 comments |
The battle of the narratives of origin
Religion & Spirituality - 14/10/2020 - 10 comments |
Clinging to the wreckage
Religion & Spirituality - 23/09/2020 - 22 comments |
Has consumer capitalism displaced faith?
Religion & Spirituality - 17/08/2020 - 41 comments |
How the idea of liberty became Liberalism
Political Philosophy - 23/07/2020 - 10 comments |
Atheism as self-murder
Religion & Spirituality - 20/05/2020 - 30 comments |
The new pope
Religion & Spirituality - 2/04/2020 - 23 comments |
Damascus: review
Religion & Spirituality - 14/02/2020 - 10 comments |
The awful funeral II
Religion & Spirituality - 28/01/2020 - 8 comments |
Facing an existential threat
Religion & Spirituality - 30/10/2019 - 7 comments |
A sad tale of irresponsible journalism and a cowardly church
Media - 20/09/2019 - 10 comments |
Wendell Berry on Pity and ‘Hurt Love’
Political Philosophy - 22/08/2019 - 5 comments |
Two scholars battle it out over the resurrection
Religion & Spirituality - 26/07/2019 - 50 comments |
Liturgical re-enchantment
Religion & Spirituality - 20/06/2019 - 14 comments |
Frédéric Martel sets the cat among the pigeons at the Vatican
Religion & Spirituality - 29/05/2019 - 11 comments |
Secular theology and artificial intelligence?
Religion & Spirituality - 20/05/2019 - 12 comments |
Was Jesus a socialist?
Religion & Spirituality - 29/04/2019 - 22 comments |
Mistaken atheism, mistaken theism
Religion & Spirituality - 28/03/2019 - 35 comments |
The origin of facts
Religion & Spirituality - 20/02/2019 - 81 comments |
Chalcedon and the Church's culture wars
Religion & Spirituality - 8/02/2019 - 20 comments |
Resurrection: the vindication of the Christ
Religion & Spirituality - 25/01/2019 - 37 comments |
A former dean of St George’s cathedral runs afoul of the evangelicals
Religion & Spirituality - 15/01/2019 - 144 comments |
The miracle of Christmas
Religion & Spirituality - 24/12/2018 - 62 comments |
Stoicism and the Invictus Games
Religion & Spirituality - 17/12/2018 - 5 comments |
Scott Morrison's polarising of Australian society
Religion & Spirituality - 29/11/2018 - 16 comments |
The knowledge of good and evil
Religion & Spirituality - 13/11/2018 - 54 comments |
The expansion of a religious tyranny
Religion & Spirituality - 11/10/2018 - 23 comments |
Marriage
Religion & Spirituality - 30/08/2018 - 49 comments |
Marriage, divorce and the Bible
Religion & Spirituality - 10/08/2018 - 75 comments |
Abortion and the human person
Law & Liberties - 9/07/2018 - 154 comments |
Preparing for death
Religion & Spirituality - 15/06/2018 - 29 comments |
Review: A Genuinely Theological Church
Religion & Spirituality - 1/06/2018 - 3 comments |
The rise and fall of English Christendom
Religion & Spirituality - 27/03/2018 - 21 comments |
The theology of Howard's End
Religion & Spirituality - 20/03/2018 - 3 comments |
Sydney Anglicans and the new Archbishop of Perth
Religion & Spirituality - 26/02/2018 - 18 comments |
The loss of the Church’s authority: nature
Religion & Spirituality - 12/02/2018 - 13 comments |
The loss of the Church's authority: morality
Religion & Spirituality - 29/01/2018 - 46 comments |
The loss of the eternal
Religion & Spirituality - 5/01/2018 - 43 comments |
The loss of the Church’s moral authority
Religion & Spirituality - 5/12/2017 - 12 comments |
Portrait of a serious atheist
Religion & Spirituality - 14/11/2017 - 32 comments |
Is the idea of God 'perfectly logical'?
Religion & Spirituality - 2/11/2017 - 51 comments |
The first person of the Trinity: the Father
Religion & Spirituality - 16/10/2017 - 15 comments |
The second person of the Trinity: the Son
Religion & Spirituality - 11/10/2017 - 151 comments |
The third person of the Trinity: the Spirit
Religion & Spirituality - 5/10/2017 - 89 comments |
Augustine and the psychological analogy
Religion & Spirituality - 25/09/2017 - 2 comments |
Life's boosters
Society - 15/09/2017 - 10 comments |
The churches and gay marriage
Law & Liberties - 24/08/2017 - 44 comments |
Should Christians read the Bible?
Religion & Spirituality - 11/08/2017 - 30 comments |
God, the mystery of the world
Religion & Spirituality - 31/07/2017 - 31 comments |
Paul Kelly and the decay of public trust
Religion & Spirituality - 13/07/2017 - 3 comments |
The 2016 census: whence the church?
Religion & Spirituality - 4/07/2017 - 45 comments |
Art wank
The Arts - 1/06/2017 - 3 comments |
Popular belief in the hospital setting
Religion & Spirituality - 9/05/2017 - 2 comments |
The emptiness of the idea of values
Religion & Spirituality - 24/04/2017 - 51 comments |
Are we really secular or pagan?
Religion & Spirituality - 12/04/2017 - 27 comments |
Crying peace, peace, when there is no peace.
Religion & Spirituality - 14/03/2017 - 9 comments |
How faith supports the political process
Religion & Spirituality - 27/02/2017 - 13 comments |
A new heaven and a new earth
Religion & Spirituality - 2/02/2017 - 8 comments |
An America after Trump
International - 17/01/2017 - 27 comments |
The deep mystery of consciousness
Religion & Spirituality - 4/01/2017 - 37 comments |
Coetzee and moral principles
Religion & Spirituality - 19/12/2016 - 5 comments |
Coetzee's novels about Jesus
Religion & Spirituality - 1/12/2016 - 2 comments |
Liberal democracy: a path to nowhere
Religion & Spirituality - 8/11/2016 - 9 comments |
Drama and virtue
The Arts - 12/10/2016 - 5 comments |
Identity politics and the Enlightenment
Political Philosophy - 28/09/2016 - 11 comments |
Preaching as though the world has already ended
Religion & Spirituality - 22/09/2016 - 8 comments |
Conceptual art and the loss of painting
The Arts - 10/08/2016 - 5 comments |
When Harry met Jerry
Religion & Spirituality - 29/07/2016 - 14 comments |
The gleeful nihilists
Religion & Spirituality - 15/06/2016 - 68 comments |
A jealous God
Religion & Spirituality - 27/05/2016 - 12 comments |
Bad religion
Religion & Spirituality - 9/05/2016 - 15 comments |
Interpreting the Resurrection II
Religion & Spirituality - 20/04/2016 - 11 comments |
Interpreting the Resurrection
Religion & Spirituality - 7/04/2016 - 34 comments |
The cry from the cross
Religion & Spirituality - 24/03/2016 - 7 comments |
The spirit of preaching
Religion & Spirituality - 16/03/2016 - 18 comments |
Galileo and gays
Law & Liberties - 1/03/2016 - 38 comments |
D H Lawrence and pornography
Religion & Spirituality - 16/02/2016 - 14 comments |
Why secularism must fail
Religion & Spirituality - 10/02/2016 - 12 comments |
The Swan isn't dying yet
Religion & Spirituality - 13/01/2016 - 115 comments |
Stranded in the present
Society - 4/01/2016 - 15 comments |
God has a human face
Religion & Spirituality - 21/12/2015 - 83 comments |
Rock bottom
Political Philosophy - 27/11/2015 - 39 comments |
The gods of secular humanism
Political Philosophy - 17/11/2015 - 21 comments |
Christianity as mother of western liberalism
Political Philosophy - 6/10/2015 - 49 comments |
Despair and social disease
Religion & Spirituality - 14/09/2015 - 14 comments |
Resurrection and time
Religion & Spirituality - 31/08/2015 - 93 comments |
Secular humanism: Christianity without Christ?
Religion & Spirituality - 13/08/2015 - 42 comments |
Abortion and moral discourse
Political Philosophy - 30/07/2015 - 5 comments |
Fetal tissue sting
Law & Liberties - 24/07/2015 - 102 comments |
The living dead
Religion & Spirituality - 10/07/2015 - 31 comments |
On resisting mythological consciousness
Religion & Spirituality - 25/06/2015 - 68 comments |
Supplanting the supernatural with the ultranatural
Religion & Spirituality - 10/06/2015 - 121 comments |
I think, therefore I am not sure what I am
Religion & Spirituality - 18/05/2015 - 58 comments |
Sport as the opiate of the people
Sport - 1/04/2015 - 12 comments |
Scepticism and suspicion
Religion & Spirituality - 23/03/2015 - 160 comments |
Angelism and bestialism: a division of the soul
Religion & Spirituality - 5/03/2015 - 8 comments |
Scientism
Religion & Spirituality - 9/02/2015 - 138 comments |
The visual arts today
The Arts - 28/01/2015 - 8 comments |
What should Christian worship look like?
Religion & Spirituality - 7/01/2015 - 20 comments |
In the beauty of the lilies
Religion & Spirituality - 15/12/2014 - 29 comments |
Commemoration reticence
Religion & Spirituality - 25/11/2014 - 26 comments |
Is Christianity 'true'?
Religion & Spirituality - 14/11/2014 - 131 comments |
A materialist creed: uniting theist and atheist
Religion & Spirituality - 31/10/2014 - 8 comments |
A materialist creed?
Religion & Spirituality - 27/10/2014 - 29 comments |
Charitable funding of medical research: a great big con?
Law & Liberties - 16/10/2014 - 8 comments |
Updike!
The Arts - 11/08/2014 - 31 comments |
The Mandorla Art Award
The Arts - 15/07/2014 - 4 comments |
On angels and myths
Religion & Spirituality - 30/06/2014 - 29 comments |
What time is it?
Religion & Spirituality - 11/06/2014 - 11 comments |
The end of ideology?
Religion & Spirituality - 7/05/2014 - 53 comments |
Preaching in the 'absence' of God
Religion & Spirituality - 22/04/2014 - 22 comments |
Building in the wreckage: the reconstruction of Christian theology
Religion & Spirituality - 9/04/2014 - 42 comments |
Missiology in late modernity
Religion & Spirituality - 25/03/2014 - 29 comments |
The awful funeral
Religion & Spirituality - 14/03/2014 - 154 comments |
Lifestyle: the trivialization of aging.
Religion & Spirituality - 3/02/2014 - 11 comments |
Natural theology and nature religion
Religion & Spirituality - 25/11/2013 - 23 comments |
Family arguments
Religion & Spirituality - 28/10/2013 - 30 comments |
The consolation of art
Religion & Spirituality - 4/10/2013 - 15 comments |
God and art
Religion & Spirituality - 12/09/2013 - 32 comments |
Does God require a special language?
Religion & Spirituality - 12/08/2013 - 82 comments |
Human rights have no foundation
Religion & Spirituality - 12/07/2013 - 30 comments |
Truth, justice and human rights
Religion & Spirituality - 11/07/2013 - 15 comments |
The celebrity status of the Dalai Lama
Religion & Spirituality - 25/06/2013 - 13 comments |
A resurgence of biblical literalism?
Religion & Spirituality - 3/06/2013 - 89 comments |
Arts criticism today
The Arts - 9/05/2013 - 23 comments |
The meaning of life?
Religion & Spirituality - 10/04/2013 - 51 comments |
Creation is a more fundamental notion than nature.
Religion & Spirituality - 19/03/2013 - 145 comments |
What happened to getting to heaven?
Religion & Spirituality - 26/02/2013 - 13 comments |
The beauty of Christ
Religion & Spirituality - 6/02/2013 - 23 comments |
Preaching to late modernity
Religion & Spirituality - 30/01/2013 - 14 comments |
Why has so much contemporary art become so boring?
The Arts - 20/08/2012 - 47 comments |
Gay marriage: an argument against
Law & Liberties - 1/08/2012 - 91 comments |
The atheist convention: a missed opportunity
April 2012 Feature - 16/04/2012 - 46 comments |
After a long battle with cancer
Religion & Spirituality - 2/04/2012 - 80 comments |
The Edith Trilogy and rationalism
Political Philosophy - 2/03/2012 - 34 comments |
Christianity for Atheists
Religion & Spirituality - 28/07/2011 - 83 comments |
The exclusivity of Jesus
Religion & Spirituality - 25/05/2011 - 67 comments |
Innate ideas and the God shaped hole
Religion & Spirituality - 17/02/2011 - 63 comments |
What future for the fine arts?
The Arts - 4/01/2011 - 13 comments |
Newton and the Trinity
Religion & Spirituality - 29/11/2010 - 63 comments |
Taming the beast within
Religion & Spirituality - 1/11/2010 - 22 comments |
Christian dogma changed by science?
Religion & Spirituality - 8/09/2010 - 36 comments |
The end of politics
Domestic Politics - 30/07/2010 - 67 comments |
Living out of control
July 2010 Feature - 7/07/2010 - 8 comments |
The Uniting Church in dire straits
Religion & Spirituality - 29/04/2010 - 38 comments |
Two ontologies of ‘being’
Religion & Spirituality - 29/03/2010 - 25 comments |
The absence of Christian art
Religion & Spirituality - 4/02/2010 - 9 comments |
‘Ockham’s Razor’, a program about science or a soapbox for prejudice?
Science & Technology - 5/01/2010 - 106 comments |
The pros and cons of biblical criticism
Religion & Spirituality - 4/12/2009 - 45 comments |
Is God the cause of the world?
Religion & Spirituality - 16/10/2009 - 371 comments |
Monotheism: not as simple as you think
Religion & Spirituality - 14/09/2009 - 42 comments |
How do we define human being?
Religion & Spirituality - 14/08/2009 - 406 comments |
Are we safe?
Religion & Spirituality - 29/06/2009 - 46 comments |
On being human
Religion & Spirituality - 25/05/2009 - 131 comments |
The resurrection of Jesus Christ
Religion & Spirituality - 24/04/2009 - 147 comments |
The trouble with liberalism
Religion & Spirituality - 30/03/2009 - 202 comments |
The impossibility of atheism II
Religion & Spirituality - 27/02/2009 - 94 comments |
The impossibility of atheism
Religion & Spirituality - 29/01/2009 - 298 comments |
Mary as the figure of the Church
Religion & Spirituality - 24/12/2008 - 77 comments |
'The Plumb Trilogy' and the modern world
Religion & Spirituality - 25/11/2008 - 30 comments |
Our culture of death
Law & Liberties - 31/10/2008 - 85 comments |
On preaching
Religion & Spirituality - 30/09/2008 - 17 comments |
The truth of the Christian story
Religion & Spirituality - 29/08/2008 - 311 comments |
The problem with modern art
The Arts - 4/08/2008 - 8 comments |
Why Christians do not believe in morality
July 2008 Feature - 9/07/2008 - 31 comments |
An age in thrall to enthusiasm
Religion & Spirituality - 13/06/2008 - 36 comments |
God and Jane Austen
Religion & Spirituality - 5/05/2008 - 25 comments |
Anti-dogmatism
Religion & Spirituality - 7/04/2008 - 82 comments |
Is the Church high culture?
Religion & Spirituality - 29/02/2008 - 18 comments |
Creator of Heaven and Earth
Religion & Spirituality - 4/02/2008 - 136 comments |
The rationality of faith
Religion & Spirituality - 16/01/2008 - 61 comments |
The failure of Protestantism
Religion & Spirituality - 7/12/2007 - 29 comments |
The Church and management techniques
Religion & Spirituality - 5/11/2007 - 8 comments |
The Enlightenment?
Religion & Spirituality - 1/10/2007 - 103 comments |
The Australian Church, a church without martyrs
Religion & Spirituality - 27/08/2007 - 89 comments |
The same tired old arguments from the unbelievers
Religion & Spirituality - 31/07/2007 - 144 comments |
From seeing to hearing: a different kind of knowing
Religion & Spirituality - 18/06/2007 - 5 comments |
Prostitution, a moral hazard
Religion & Spirituality - 7/05/2007 - 70 comments |
The liturgy of the Church
Religion & Spirituality - 5/04/2007 - 117 comments |
On confession
Religion & Spirituality - 13/03/2007 - 18 comments |
The nonexistence of the spirit world
Religion & Spirituality - 12/02/2007 - 347 comments |
The centrality of the body in Christian theology
Religion & Spirituality - 5/01/2007 - 116 comments |
The rise of secular religion
Religion & Spirituality - 13/12/2006 - 177 comments |
How does God exist?
Religion & Spirituality - 9/11/2006 - 246 comments |
The predictable journey of outcomes based education
Education - 9/10/2006 - 28 comments |
Bland, politically correct values
September 2006 Feature - 12/09/2006 - 48 comments |
Is heaven real?
Religion & Spirituality - 16/08/2006 - 149 comments |
Choice: the current mask of nihilism
July 2006 Feature - 7/07/2006 - 67 comments |
Putting God back in the church
Religion & Spirituality - 13/06/2006 - 46 comments |
Duped by secular rationalism
Religion & Spirituality - 15/05/2006 - 164 comments |
The source of true self
Religion & Spirituality - 13/04/2006 - 88 comments |
'The Expulsion'
Religion & Spirituality - 7/03/2006 - 40 comments |
The polarisation of the church: liberalism and fundamentalism
Religion & Spirituality - 3/02/2006 - 38 comments |
The problem with liberal democracy
Religion & Spirituality - 11/01/2006 - 34 comments |
Preaching as art
Religion & Spirituality - 14/12/2005 - 10 comments |
Apocalypse now: why we shouldn't fear if the end is nigh
Religion & Spirituality - 9/11/2005 - 50 comments |
Church welfare takes the well-paved road
Religion & Spirituality - 11/10/2005 - 10 comments |
Intelligent design - damaging good science and good theology
Religion & Spirituality - 9/09/2005 - 140 comments |
Why Christianity’s particularity is better than John Lennon's universalism
Religion & Spirituality - 18/08/2005 - 108 comments |
The perils of pornography
Religion & Spirituality - 18/07/2005 - 55 comments |
The scandal of Christianity
Religion & Spirituality - 22/06/2005 - 122 comments |
PETA: An example of extreme rationality
Religion & Spirituality - 24/05/2005 - 30 comments |
Should we change for the church or should the church change for us?
Religion & Spirituality - 27/04/2005 - 54 comments |
Religious feeling
Religion & Spirituality - 24/03/2005 - 4 comments |
Separation of God and politics
Religion & Spirituality - 2/03/2005 - 63 comments |
The metaphysics of the one-night stand
Religion & Spirituality - 25/01/2005 - 5 comments |
Earthquakes and the objectivity of the world
Religion & Spirituality - 5/01/2005 - 8 comments |
In the company of Mary
Religion & Spirituality - 21/12/2004 - 31 comments |
Lot, his daughters and the abortion debate
Religion & Spirituality - 25/11/2004 - 6 comments |
Book review: John Carroll and 'The Wreck of Western Culture'
Religion & Spirituality - 26/10/2004 - 4 comments |
'God on our side: the real deal' - the disturbing side of Christian fundamentalism
Religion & Spirituality - 28/09/2004 |
The Olympics: A celebration of the human spirit but not a religion
Sport - 24/08/2004 |
Consequences of the Reformation: the post-Protestant church
Religion & Spirituality - 22/07/2004 |
Towards a dumb reading of the bible
Religion & Spirituality - 25/06/2004 |
What does Cardinal Pell think is wrong with Catholic education?
Religion & Spirituality - 27/05/2004 |
The Christian community’s order as a model of Western civil order
Religion & Spirituality - 29/04/2004 |
Islamic terrorism and the failure to separate the sacred from the civil
Religion & Spirituality - 6/04/2004 |
Managerial attitudes are slowly taking over our lives and putting us to sleep
Religion & Spirituality - 3/03/2004 |
Has secular sexual freedom sowed the seeds of social disintegration?
Religion & Spirituality - 5/02/2004 - 2 comments |
The Christian Doctrine of Creation: dead duck or saving truth?
Religion & Spirituality - 8/01/2004 - 1 comment |
A secular Christmas is hollow and therefore brings no lasting joy
December 2003 Feature - 1/12/2003 |
Kill Bill: Are we breaking back into paganism in the movies?
Religion & Spirituality - 18/11/2003 |
Is there a Christian response to the growth in medical technology?
Religion & Spirituality - 21/10/2003 |
Seek My Face
Religion & Spirituality - 23/09/2003 |
The practical difficulties of teaching 'religion' in the school system
Religion & Spirituality - 29/08/2003 |
How the Enlightenment made Christian belief impossible
Religion & Spirituality - 19/08/2003 |
The spiritual shortcomings of the God of the scientist turned theologian
Religion & Spirituality - 3/07/2003 - 1 comment |
Obedience to the unenforceable is a statement of grace as old as the bible
June 2003 Feature - 9/06/2003 |
There is no earthly way to avoid the temper of this time between times
Religion & Spirituality - 7/05/2003 |
Is theology irrelevant in modern life?
Religion & Spirituality - 15/04/2003 |
Faith cannot be replaced by therapy or self-help manuals - there is more to life
March 2003 Feature - 11/03/2003 |
Christian community in the shadow of Hegel, Nietzsche, and Fukuyama
Religion & Spirituality - 10/02/2003 |
The horrors of Advent and the celebration of Christmas
Religion & Spirituality - 18/12/2002 |
The enduring beauty of Radical Orthodoxy
Religion & Spirituality - 13/12/2002 |
How celebrating Life displaces celebrating God
Religion & Spirituality - 21/11/2002 |
Environmentalists: the New Pharisees?
Religion & Spirituality - 30/10/2002 |
Who is responsible for the death of God?
Religion & Spirituality - 21/10/2002 |
The death of God: a retrospective
Religion & Spirituality - 15/09/2002 |
Sometimes, faking it is the only choice
Religion & Spirituality - 3/09/2002 |
Materialism and religion
Religion & Spirituality - 15/08/2002 |
