Exploring issues of life and meaning
Welcome
SOFiA is a network of Australians interested in openly exploring issues of life and meaning through reason, philosophy, ethics, religion, science and the arts. We want to explore for ourselves what we can believe and how we can find meaning in our lives.
SOFiA has no philosophical or religious position beyond a desire to ‘openly explore’: it is a forum for discussing ideas, experiences and possibilities.
Any who find themselves in sympathy with our purpose – exploring life and meaning in an open and non-dogmatic manner – are most welcome to join us.
Mark your diary for…
The SOFiA One Day Conference 2020
The Statement from the Heart
Saturday, 20 June
Queensland Art Gallery Lecture Theatre
Southbank, Brisbane
News & Events
Religion news roundup
Local group meetings
Upcoming Events
Latest blog posts
Heroes and villains
We seem to have a need to see the world as binary. It’s been debunked many times, but it suits us to see people as straight or gay, law-abiding or...
A responsible global citizen?
Melbourne writer Matt Holden gives a pessimistic assessment of where we are at the start of the 2020s: Australia suddenly feels like a coal and...
All our Blog Posts
Check out our blog posts, old and new…
Articles
Dark Emu – a review
Bruce Pascoe Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia And The Birth Of Agriculture (Magabala Books, 2014; 2nd Ed 2018) A review by John Carr Pascoe’s...
Random thoughts in a Katoomba café
Random thoughts in a Katoomba café by Barbara McKenzie I’m sitting by the window of a coffee shop in Katoomba, musing. A youngish woman in a...
Articles Archive
We have an archive of many articles of interest…
