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A visit to the Ration Shed
By Greg Spearritt What is a whitefella of English descent to make of the Ration Shed? Imagine being taken from your mother on your fifth birthday...
Better dead than red?
Rodney Eivers, a non-supernaturalist Christian, considers Christmas... and conflict. How redeemable is a supernatural rationale for once-religious...
Certainty and Gaia
Imagination, metaphor, and the delight of not yet knowing. Can it be true that these are the source of a fulfilling life? Certitude is a demon that...
The Old Friary
Rodney Eivers recounts some SOFiA history at Kenmore Hills in Queensland. The Anglican Church Southern Queensland has decided to sell the Old...
Flannery, Tim – Life: Selected Writings
Greg Spearritt reviews Tim Flannery’s 2019 collection of essays. Tim Flannery must be living proof of reincarnation. I can see no other way...
Never too late
A review by Marie Cameron This comedy, which will keep you laughing almost continuously, focuses on four old Vietnam veterans, now in a nursing home...
Articles & Reviews Archive
Book reviews
- 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
Faith/Belief
- 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
- 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
- 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’