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18 Apr

It’s for good reason that religion is in retreat

18/04/2025
By Paul Monk
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Bari Weiss’s highly successful Substack site, The Free Press, hosted a debate in March. All good rationalists would do well to watch it...

27 Jul

Ethics & Religion

‘Christianity-lite’: When all belief is gone

The world’s richest person, Elon Musk, just announced that he’s a “big believer in the principles of Christianity” and “a cultur...

23 Apr

Ethics & Religion

When my church joined an international cult

23/04/2024
By Rhys Hagan
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It had been a year since I saw my family. In the Army, it was a year of obeying orders, marching routines, weapons drills, fire and mov...

04 Apr

Ethics & Religion

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 Life Centre...

18 Mar

Law & Politics

Why I’m speaking out about discrimination in Christian schools

18/03/2024
By David Patterson
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I’ve worked for the Christian Schools Australia (CSA) network as a finance and risk manager for a number of years. Close family members...

13 Mar

Law & Politics

Reaching for the mountain tops in Mayor Tate’s kingdom

13/03/2024
By Si Gladman
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Sue Baynes loves Christmas. A self-declared “Christmas tragic”, she gets her Christmas tree set up early – in November – and tells her ...

17 Jan

Ethics & Religion

Paul Kingsnorth’s new religiousness

31/01/2024
By Paul Monk
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On Christmas Day, an essay appeared in the online magazine UnHerd under the title ‘Our Godless era is dead: A second religiousness i...

05 Jan

Letters to the Editor

Conference shows what secularists are for, not against

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11 Dec

Ethics & Religion

Christian dominionism: Follow the money

13/03/2024
By Chrys Stevenson
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This article is based on a speech given by the author at the Secularism Australia Conference on 2 December in Sydney. For all...

08 Dec

Letters to the Editor

The case for a new form of censorship

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23 Sep

Ethics & Religion

Pentecostalism: New, old and unchanging

23/09/2023
By Geoffrey Barker
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The “new face of Pentecostalism in Australia” was joyfully proclaimed in a recent edition of the Weekend Australian newspaper. “...

18 Apr

Ethics & Religion

Greg Sheridan’s uncritical supernaturalism

18/04/2023
By Paul Monk
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On Easter Saturday, The Australian was to run a 1200-word piece of mine about Mathias Cormann being a safe pair of hands at the OECD, i...

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