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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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Peter FitzSimons 11/06/2023

This foreword appears in the newly published Religiosity in Australia: Religion and charity. It is the hoariest chestnut of the ...

Paul Monk 18/04/2023

On Easter Saturday, The Australian was to run a 1200-word piece of mine about Mathias Cormann being a safe pair ...

Clare Heath-McIvor 08/04/2023

Last year, I had a quick conversation with another writer about the difference between the ‘far right’ and ‘extreme right’ ...