Ethics & Religion

When my church joined an international cult

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

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

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

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’

There is an obscure medieval legend that says once upon a time in Bethlehem a child was born whose holiness ...
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Leslie Cannold: Setting the record straight on beliefs about religious moral superiority

This is the foreword that appears in the newly published volume of the Religiosity in Australia series, by Neil Francis. ...
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Christian dominionism: Follow the money

This article is based on a speech given by the author at the Secularism Australia Conference on 2 December in ...
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Our 2017 interview with Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Editor’s note: In UnHerd magazine last weekend, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a feminist and critic of Islam, wrote about her journey ...
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Truth and consequences in a world of liars

The world watches horrified as bombs and rockets kill thousands and reduce Ukraine and Gaza to smoking rubble. Australians agonise ...
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Pentecostalism: New, old and unchanging

The “new face of Pentecostalism in Australia” was joyfully proclaimed in a recent edition of the Weekend Australian newspaper. “Rock ...
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Inside the indoctrinated mind

Earlier this year, I wrote here about radicalisation, white Christian nationalism and how the far and extreme right-wing interface. In ...
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Why the Army’s choice to serve God comes at a cost to the nation

On 8 July 2023, the Australian Army, specifically the 1st Armoured Regiment, had a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to march through the ...
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