Articles
Articles & Reviews Archive
Please note: Opinions expressed in these articles and reviews are those of the authors. SOFiA’s only opinion is that open exploration of the issues of life and meaning should be encouraged.
Book reviews
- Flannery, Tim – Life: Selected Writings
- Keneally, Tom – The Dickens Boy
- Grenville, Kate – A Room Made of Leaves
- Bourgeault, Cynthia – The Meaning of Mary Magdalene
- Stewart, Katherine – The Power Worshippers
- Carroll, John – Ego and Soul
- Phelps-Roper, Megan – Unfollow
- Tsiolkas , Christos – Damascus
- Martel Fredéric – In the Closet of the Vatican
- Bryson, Bill – Life, the Universe and Nearly Everything
- Boulton, David – Godless for God’s Sake
- Armstrong, Karen – The Gospel According to Woman
- Armstrong, Karen – The Case for God
- Armstrong, Karen – On the Bible
Ethics/Morality
Faith/Belief
- The need to believe
- A Miscellany of Heresy
- God as Love or God as Life?
- Jihad: Filling a Vacuum?
- The Atheist, the Agnostic & the Scientist
- Aboriginal Beliefs and Customs in Early Brisbane
- A Militant Atheist’s Viewpoint on Agnosticism
- A Better Easter
- Christian Fundamentalism: Is It Valid?
- Who on Earth was Jesus?: The Scholarship and Research
- Does Jesus Matter Anymore?
Film Reviews
Organised Religion
- Bourgeault, Cynthia – The Meaning of Mary Magdalene
- Christianity: Best of a bad lot?
- Many Religions: One God?
- A Miscellany of Heresy
- Dogma and Karma
- A Fifth Column?
- What is the Church?
- The World According to Jesus
- New Thinking About the Historical Jesus
- Asian & Indian Christianity
- Why Buddhism Beckons
- What’s Wrong With Buddhism?
Philosophy
Religion/Spirituality
- Certainty and Gaia
- Is science a form of religion?
- Mysticism And Ultimate Reality
- Hope, Hopelessness and No Hope
- Choosing a Spiritual Path
- Atheism as a Spiritual Path
- A Spiritual Ethic
- A Psychological Approach to the Experience of Spirituality
- If Only…
- Half a Century Later
- Does God Create Religion or Religion Create God?
- Now and Forever, Amen
- Easter & Eggs, Heaven & Hell
- A Sporting Chance of Being Religious
- Muslims aren’t all the same
- Prelude: Naturally Green
- Buddhist Existentialism
Science
Society
- Promising Young Woman
- A visit to the Ration Shed
- Better dead than red?
- Media and misinformation
- Building Hope
- Stewart, Katherine – The Power Worshippers
- Christianity: Best of a bad lot?
- On downplaying difference
- Societies and their stability
- Nationalism
- Dark Emu – a review
- Passing
- The Euthanasia Issue
- On Discipline
- Invoking Religion in Australian Politics
- Desperately Seeking Sophia
- Confucious Says: On Being a ‘Superior Person’