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Recent Articles & Reviews
Gilbert, Elizabeth – City of Girls
A review by Greg Spearritt The asymmetry of gender is something few of us consider in day to day life; at least, I would wager, few men. It’s...
Enlivening belief
By Dallas Elvery On January 20 this year, a young woman read a poem that she had written herself, at Joe Biden’s presidential inauguration. It...
The Dry
A review by Marie Cameron We are still being blessed with a raft of fine Australian movies appearing at the cinemas (who needs Hollywood...
A clear, calm voice
By Dallas Elvery I am interested in continuing to explore what profound personal experience is, and of course how to experience it. That exploration...
Kent, Jacqueline – Vida, a Woman for Our Time
A review by Marie Cameron Since Biblical times, the lives and stories of thousands of women have been suppressed and erased by the patriarchy. It is...
Promising Young Woman
Greg Spearritt reviews Promising Young Woman Who hasn’t occasionally entertained thoughts of how satisfying it would be to settle a score? The mild...
Articles & Reviews Archive
Arts
Book reviews
- 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
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
- 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’