Ethics & Religion
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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Leslie Cannold: Setting the record straight on beliefs about religious moral superiority
Leslie Cannold
16/12/2023
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
Chrys Stevenson
11/12/2023
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
Rationale Magazine
19/11/2023
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
Geoffrey Barker
30/10/2023
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
Geoffrey Barker
23/09/2023
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
Clare Heath-McIvor
08/09/2023
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
Phillip Hoglin
02/08/2023
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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