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- Anglicanism
- Religion News Selection 30 (Aug 9 - 16)
- Religion News Selection 35 (Sept 4 - 11)
- Book Reviews
- Armstrong, Karen - On the Bible
- Armstrong, Karen - The Case for God
- Armstrong, Karen - The Gospel According to Woman
- Ayaan Hirsi Ali - The Caged Virgin
- Boulton, David - Godless for God's Sake
- Boulton, David - The Trouble With God
- Boulton, David - Who On Earth Was Jesus?
- Boulton, David - Who On Earth Was Jesus? (2)
- Bryson, Bill - A Short History of Nearly Everything
- Cannold, Leslie - The Book of Rachael
- Carroll, John - A Jesus for Our Time?
- Cooper, Adrian - Places of Pilgrimage and Healing
- Crossan, John Dominic - How to Read the Bible and Still Be a Christian
- Cupitt, Don - Above Us Only Sky
- Cupitt, Don - Impossible Loves
- Cupitt, Don - Jesus and Philosophy
- Cupitt, Don - Reforming Christianity
- Cupitt, Don - The Meaning of the West
- Cupitt, Don - Theology's Strange Return
- Dawkins, Richard & McKean, Dave - The Magic of Reality
- Eagleton, Terry - Religion, Faith and Revolution
- Fisk, Robert - The Great War for Civilisation
- Grayling, AC - Towards the Light
- Gross, Dick - Jesus, Judas and Mordy Ben Reuben
- Gunson, John - Learning to Live Without God
- Hamid, Mohsin - The Reluctant Fundamentalist
- Hampson, Michael - God Without God
- Harris, Sam - The End of Faith
- Holloway, Richard - Godless Morality
- Kennedy, Peter - The Man Who Threatened Rome
- King, Karen - The Gospel of Mary
- Kirkwood, Peter - The Quiet Revolution
- Kristof, Nicholas & WuDunn, Sheryl - Half the Sky: How to Change the World
- Kriwaczek, Paul - In Search of Zarathustra
- Leaves, Nigel - Religion Under Attack
- Livingstone, Dinah - Poetic Tales: Logosofia Down to Earth
- McEwan, Ian - Saturday
- Menedikt, Michael - God is the Good We Do
- Mills, David - Atheist Universe
- Mitchell, Stephen - God in the Bath
- Murchison, Paul - Who is This God?
- Ogden, Stephen - Love Upside Down
- Orens, John Richard - Stewart Headlam
- Paranjape, Makarand (ed.) - Sacred Australia
- Pataki, Tamas - Against Religion
- Pearson, John - Train Doors Slamming
- Persig, Robert M - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- Rendle-Short, Francesca - Bite Your Tongue
- Spong, John Shelby - Why Christianity Must Change or Die
- Suzuki, David & McConnell, Amanda - The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering Our Place in Nature
- Vardy, Peter - Being Human
- Vickers, Sally - Miss Garnet's Angel
- Wallace et al - Time and Tide
- Williams, Robyn - Unintelligent Design
- Winterson, Jeanette - Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
- Young, William P. - The Shack
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- Buddhism
- Buddhist Existentialism (Robert Miller)
- Prelude: Naturally Green (Robert Miller)
- What's Wrong With Buddhism? (Cliff Willard)
- Why Buddhism Beckons (Greg Spearritt)
- Church/Organised Religion
- Asian & Indian Christianity (William Firth-Smith)
- Iconography In Christianity (Peter Robinson)
- If Only (John D. Wessel)
- New Thinking About the Historical Jesus (Kevin G. Smith)
- The World According to Jesus (Lorraine Parkinson)
- What is the Church? (John Gunson)
- Conferences - SoFiA
- Does Jesus Matter Anymore? (David Boulton)
- Religion in Education - discussion paper (John Carr)
- Who on Earth was Jesus? - audio (David Boulton)
- Who on Earth was Jesus?: The Scholarship and Research (David Boulton)
- Ethics/Morality
- Are We Obliged to Forgive? (Nigel Sinnott/Dmitri Perno)
- My Brother's Keeper (Owen Ronalds)
- Should We Always Forgive? (Nigel Sinnott)
- The Changing Moral Imperative (Lloyd Geering)
- The Ethic of Jesus (Rodney Eivers)
- The Failings of Religion (Chantal Babin)
- Faith/Belief
- Christian Fundamentalism – Is It Valid? (S.B.Colegrove)
- A Better Easter (Terry Gaw)
- A Fifth Column? (Wayne Crich)
- A Militant Atheist's Viewpoint on Agnosticism (Nigel Sinnott)
- Aboriginal Beliefs and Customs in Early Brisbane (Greg Spearritt)
- An Argument For Unbelief (David Milan)
- Beyond Deconstruction (Graham Warren)
- Dangerous Beliefs (Stephen Stuart)
- Faith and the Supernatural (Rodney Eivers)
- Faith or No Faith (Chantal Babin)
- Goodies and Baddies: Faith or a Vacuum? (Rodney Eivers)
- Intercessory Prayer (John Carr)
- Lost in Space (Peter Hooton)
- My March to Militant Atheism (Nigel Sinnott)
- On Being an Atheist (Greg Spearritt)
- SoFiA 2009 Religion Poll
- The 2010 Global Atheist Convention - a view (Cordelia Hull)
- The Heresy of Climate Skepticism (Greg Spearritt)
- The Noah Assignment (Bob Dungavell)
- The Pale Blue Dot (Adrian Jones)
- Film Reviews
- Angels and Demons
- Boy Erased & The Children Act
- Chocolat
- Deliver Us From Evil
- Dogville
- Look Both Ways
- Islam
- Muslims aren't all the same (Malcolm Brown)
- Life in General
- A Sporting Chance of Being Religious (Greg Spearritt)
- At the Gallery (Judith Bore)
- Confucious Says: On Being a 'Superior Person' (Rodney Eivers)
- Easter & Eggs, Heaven & Hell (Owen Ronalds)
- Life is Play (Robert Miller)
- Now and Forever, Amen (Greg Spearritt)
- Passing (Greg Spearritt)
- Random Thoughts in a Katoomba Cafe (Barbara McKenzie)
- Why is there not just nothing? (Laurel Sommerfeld)
- Religion
- Beyond Difference, Beyond Belief
- Does God Create Religion or Religion Create God? (Val Webb)
- Half a Century Later (Nigel Sinnott)
- If Only... (John Wessel)
- Jihad: Filling a Vacuum? (Rodney Eivers)
- Learning to Live Without God (John Gunson)
- Nor Certitude (Peter Bore)
- Origins of Religion (Annette Lowe)
- Repairing the Fence: How Can People of Different Faiths Get Along? (Nicholas Rundle)
- Seriously Secular? (John Gunson)
- Spiritualism: What is It? (Dorothy Woodside)
- The Origin of Religion (Lachlan McInnes)
- The Quiet Revolution: the emergence of interfaith consciousness (Peter Kirkwood)
- Understanding the Gospel of Mark (Jonathan Rutherford)
- Science & Religion
- Is Science the New Religion? (David Miller)
- Mystical Experiences and Respect for the Whole Brain (Ian Mavor)
- Science and its Quest for Objectivity (Alex McCullie)
- The Atheist, the Agnostic & the Scientist (David Miller)
- Sea of Faith
- SoFiA Bulletin
- Society
- Desperately Seeking Sophia (Alison Cotes)
- Invoking Religion in Australian Politics
- Jihad: Filling a Vacuum? (Rodney Eivers)
- On Discipline (Tim Horgan)
- Societies and Their Stability (Glen McBride)
- The Euthanasia Issue (Ian Mavor)
- Spirituality
- A Psychological Approach to the Experience of Spirituality (Helen Mason)
- A Spiritual Ethic (John Beasley)
- Atheism as a Spiritual Path (Ian Robinson)
- Choosing a Spiritual Path (John Beasley)
- Hope, Hopelessness and No Hope (John Beasely)
- Inspiration and the Elegant Solution (Ken Davidson)
- On Prayer (John Wessel)
- Our Common Story: a 21st century spirituality for humanity? (Noel Preston)
- Postmodern Spirituality (Robert Miller)
- Secular Religion: Non-Supernatural Spirituality (David Miller)
- Spiritual Experiences in a Secular World (John Carr)
- The Proper Use of Logic (Timothy Horgan)
- The Soul and/or the Spirit? (Paul Tonson)
- Youth Spirituality (Jacqueline Hodder)
- Theology
- Dogma and Karma (Paul Tonson)
- God as ‘Love’ or God as ‘Life’? (Rodney Eivers)
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