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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,...

Social media seems increasingly to be defining life in the 21st century. The question is, for better or worse? There are skeptics who point to the...

Wandering recently through the British Natural History Museum I was impressed by many of the exhibits. An actual-size blue whale skeleton is truly...

We seem to have a need to see the world as binary. It’s been debunked many times, but it suits us to see people as straight or gay, law-abiding or...

Melbourne writer Matt Holden gives a pessimistic assessment of where we are at the start of the 2020s: Australia suddenly feels like a coal and...

As central as it may seem at this time of year, and contrary to the opinions of some, the birth of a child is actually not what Christianity is all...

Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez chronicles in detail the many ways our world is designed by, and for, men. A simple illustration: have you...

The ‘OK Boomer’ retort has apparently been around since early 2018, initially in response to video of an older man accusing Millennials and Gen Z of...

Much about religion can be framed by evolutionary psychology. In a word, it’s about survival. The idea that we are primed to see agency even when...

In 20th-century pluralist theology, even ‘enlightened’ theologians like Winston L. King could not quite shake their Western assumptions: despite...

‘Gender reveal’ parties – where parents go to sometimes extraordinary lengths to announce the sex of their newly (or soon-to-be) born child – are...

Whether the novels of Philip Pullman’s trilogy His Dark Materials, newly adapted for television, is anti-Christian may have to be resolved in the...