Ethics & Religion
How Australians view the religiosity of their political leaders
Neil Francis
11/09/2024
A new Pew Research Center study assesses public opinion about the importance of their national leader’s religion and religiosity. It’s ...
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What to expect when leaving a cult or toxic group
Clare Heath-McIvor
04/08/2024
There’s a lot they don’t tell you about leaving a cult, a high-control religion or toxic group. They don’t exactly ...
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‘Christianity-lite’: When all belief is gone
Simon McCarthy-Jones
27/07/2024
The world’s richest person, Elon Musk, just announced that he’s a “big believer in the principles of Christianity” and “a cultural Christian”. ...
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The Catholic Church’s fight to keep ‘cultural Catholics’ at Census time
Si Gladman
09/06/2024
The next Census in 2026 will likely be a watershed moment for our nation, with the proportion of Australians identifying ...
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Australia’s changing spiritual landscape
Anna Halafoff
31/05/2024
Spirituality is increasingly popular with young Australians: recent research shows 38 per cent of Gen Z Australians identify as spiritual. It ...
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Time to take religion out of Anzac Day services
Si Gladman
25/05/2024
Plenty of non-religious Australians have fought, and have died, in war for our country. While the insulting line that there ...
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Waving goodbye to imaginary friends
Graeme Gibson
04/05/2024
Let me introduce you to a young boy known as ‘Peanut’. James Delarue is his real name but, with affection, ...
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When my church joined an international cult
Rhys Hagan
23/04/2024
It had been a year since I saw my family. In the Army, it was a year of obeying orders, ...
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Hardaker’s take on the rise and fall of Hillsong and Houston
Rosie Clare Shorter
04/04/2024
Hillsong was first formed in 1983 by Brian and Bobbie Houston as the “decidedly functional, even dowdy” The Hills Christian ...
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Jordan Peterson, Greg Sheridan and the Christian myth
Paul Monk
31/03/2024
In November last year, Greg Sheridan, Foreign Editor of The Australian – a newspaper for which I regularly write feature ...
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Paul Kingsnorth’s new religiousness
Paul Monk
17/01/2024
On Christmas Day, an essay appeared in the online magazine UnHerd under the title ‘Our Godless era is dead: A ...
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The legend of the first Christmas and ‘sodomites’
Michael Barbezat
29/12/2023
There is an obscure medieval legend that says once upon a time in Bethlehem a child was born whose holiness ...
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