Ethics & Religion
Greg Sheridan’s uncritical supernaturalism
On Easter Saturday, The Australian was to run a 1200-word piece of mine about Mathias Cormann being a safe pair …
Radicalisation and white Christian nationalism
Last year, I had a quick conversation with another writer about the difference between the ‘far right’ and ‘extreme right’ …
Supernatural beliefs exist to explain natural phenomena
Religion is a human universal. For thousands of years, humans have held religious beliefs and participated in religious rituals. Throughout …
The day I stood up to bullshit
The first time I was suspended from school came in Year 8. To some, that might seem a little early …
Euthanasia through the ages
Are our moral judgements about euthanasia a product of our time? If we came from a different culture, might our …
How I dropped the dogma and took control of my own destiny
I was about six years old when the parish priest walked into the room. His vestments swirled around him as …
The faithless in foxholes
There is an old saying – there are no atheists in foxholes. In reality, modern soldiers are unlikely to be …
George Brandis and the Christian persecution complex
Attending the Religious Freedom roundtable in November 2015 on behalf of the Rationalist Society of Australia, I was bemused by …
Andrew Denton: Report reveals gulf between conservative Christian politics and voters
This foreword appears in the newly published Religiosity in Australia: Religion and politics. In May of 2022, as New South …
Christ’s commanders
This article is the third in a series on religion in the Australian Defence Force. Read the first article here. …
Losing faith in Defence chaplaincy
This article is the second in a series on religion in the Australian Defence Force. Read the first article here. …
The committee of clerics lording it over Defence
This article is the first in a series on religion in the Australian Defence Force. Every three months, Australian taxpayers …