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Recent Articles & Reviews
The urge to merge: spirituality and sexuality
The urge to merge: spirituality and sexuality By Paul Tonson A starter for an intentional conversation The creative energy for this paper is...
Star of Taroom – a journey of the heart
Star of Taroom: a journey of the heart By Denver Kanowski – contributed with hope for a more balanced and compassionate future This is a story of...
Exiting Religion
By Dallas Elvery For someone who has been steeped in religion for a long period, moving away can be difficult. Being ‘inside’ religion gives an...
Why religion is important for survival
By Bill Hendry The question of ‘moral guidance’ has probably been asked since the dawn of self-reflection: how can we humans best ‘behave’ so that...
Criminal justice in Australia: the madness in the method
By Greg Spearritt You might think that our criminal justice system aims to unearth the truth. You’d be wrong. Barrister and author Andrew Boe – who...
The Rev. John Dunmore Lang and German immigration into Queensland
Barbara McKenzie investigates a feisty Scottish clergyman and his drive to improve the moral makeup of Queensland: The Rev. John Dunmore Lang and...
Articles & Reviews Archive
Arts
Book reviews
- Grant, Stan – With the Falling of the Dusk
- Women in Islam
- Griffiths, Billy – Deep Time Dreaming
- Solnit, Rebecca – A Paradise Built in Hell
- Ishiguro, Kazuo – Klara and the Sun
- What I gain from Bertrand
- Yunkporta, Tyson – Sand Talk
- Gilbert, Elizabeth – City of Girls
- Kent, Jacqueline – Vida, a Woman for Our Time
- 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
- Star of Taroom – a journey of the heart
- Criminal justice in Australia: the madness in the method
- The Rev. John Dunmore Lang and German immigration into Queensland
- Loving enemies and losing friends
- Moral guidance without Christianity
- An Ethic of Civilisation
- The Failings of Religion
- The Ethic of Jesus
- The Changing Moral Imperative
- Should We Always Forgive?
- My Brother’s Keeper
- Are We Obliged to Forgive?
Faith/Belief
- The dope on dowsing
- Jack Spong: right or wrong?
- Exiting Religion
- Why religion is important for survival
- Women in Islam
- Ghostly entertainment
- Enlivening 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
- Jack Spong: right or wrong?
- Exiting Religion
- The Rev. John Dunmore Lang and German immigration into Queensland
- Women in Islam
- The Language of Spiritual Care
- 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
- Jack Spong: right or wrong?
- The urge to merge: spirituality and sexuality
- Exiting Religion
- Why religion is important for survival
- The Language of Spiritual Care
- 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
- The dope on dowsing
- La Bonne Épouse
- A day in hospital – freedom and control
- Grant, Stan – With the Falling of the Dusk
- Structure and creativity
- The urge to merge: spirituality and sexuality
- Star of Taroom – a journey of the heart
- Why religion is important for survival
- Criminal justice in Australia: the madness in the method
- The Rev. John Dunmore Lang and German immigration into Queensland
- Women in Islam
- The Language of Spiritual Care
- Report from Cherbourg
- Ghostly entertainment
- Ishiguro, Kazuo – Klara and the Sun
- Satellite Boy
- Supernova
- Friendship
- Yunkporta, Tyson – Sand Talk
- Gilbert, Elizabeth – City of Girls
- Enlivening belief
- A clear, calm voice
- Kent, Jacqueline – Vida, a Woman for Our Time
- 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’