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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
• 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
• You’ll find a complete list of reviews in our archive…
• 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)
• 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
• Chocolat
• Deliver Us From Evil
• Dogville
• 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)
• 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)