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My cultural heritage is English. Lots to be unhappy about there as I will freely admit, given the extent to which the English have helped stuff the...

Zen Buddhism, at least as its usually understood in the west, seeks to dislodge us from relying on the second-hand experience we gain through...

State premiers are saying they hope continued collaboration, rather than a return to ‘cheap politics’ will be the order of the day following the...

Steven Ogden (Research Fellow with the Center for Public and Contextual Theology at Charles Sturt University and the Anglican Parish Priest)...

Victoria's deputy Chief Health Officer Annaliese van Diemen has caused a culture-wars stir with her recent tweet comparing the arrival of Captain...

From within the Anglican Church comes a new book exploring the nature of church in light of what some prominent philosophers, particularly Foucault,...

By John Carr The current issue of New Scientist (25 April 2020) includes a number of pandemic-related articles. One with particular relevance to...

‘The man seen in left profile’, aka John Carr, gifts us some Guidelines for Mature Gentlefolk in a Post-Genteel Age The sudden emergence of Zoom and...

The genre of miracle stories is one of the staples in many religious – and even secular – traditions. From the appearance of a prayed-for parking...

A typically level-headed analysis by Barney Zwartz in the SMH shows that the story isn’t over for Cardinal Pell, despite the recent overturning by...

Why would God allow the terrible COVID-19 outbreak to happen? This question doesn’t seem to have loomed large for religious folk as yet, except in...

On climate and on the summer of bushfires, some of our key politicians with the power to act have been found wanting. At great cost to Australians,...