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Two doctors look at the case for and against assited dying

John Buchanan and Barbara Burge

September 28 2017Two medical professionals with decades of experience look at the issues surrounding assisted dying

Two responses to Andy Lines' consecration

September 5 2017Peter Adam and Peter Sherlock look at the case

Same sex marriage: how should we vote?

September 1 2017TMA presents two sides of the debate

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Latest asylum seeker move 'cruel and morally reprehensible'

August 31 2017Bishop George Browning lashes Dutton's latest move

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Reflections on the 2017 Diocesan Ministry Conference

August 18 2017Shane Hubner looks back on the recent Diocesan Ministry Conference

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Eschatological ethics for the Anthropocene?

August 16 2017David Horrell responds to Clive Hamilton's new book "Defiant Earth"

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13-10-2017	Progress in the Communion, no one cares	Andrew Brown, Church Times (UK)
13-10-2017	Police UK borders with justice and humanity	Peter Selby, Church Times
13-10-2017	Languishing behind bars, deprived of hope	Jane Newsome, Church Times
12-10-2017	The price of freedom? Child sacrifice and the American gun cult	John J Thatamanil, ABC Religion and Ethics
11-10-2017	Flawed assisted dying bill puts vulnerable people at risk	Mark Sneddon and Sharon Rodrick, The Age
06-10-2017	Fighting the Good Fight: The political philosophy of America's guns	Thomas Wells, ABC Religion and Ethics
06-10-2017	He must remember this	Church Times (UK) editorial
06-10-2017	Christians and Yazidis in Iraq stand on the brink of extinction	Chris Smith, Religion News Service (US)
06-10-2017	Patriotism without the dog whistles	Andrew Rumsey, Church Times
05-10-2017	The House that Hef Built: Hugh Hefner's dark legacy	Melinda Tankard Reist, ABC Religion and Ethics
05-10-2017	After Las Vegas, who says prayer doesn’t ‘work’?	Brandon Ambrosino, RNS
05-10-2017	Testing the proposition that lack of religion leads to violence	Mark Silk, RNS
05-10-2017	Edward Heath abuse case: Complexity does not imply criminality	Nicholas Holtam, Church Times
05-10-2017	Speaking of Anglicanism; speaking of subsidiarity	Andrew Lightbown, Theore0 blog (UK)
03-10-2017	The Archbishop of Canterbury, irreconcilable difference and ‘copping out’	Jonathan Draper, Modern Church (UK)
30-09-2017	The BBC’s self-absorption has obscured Justin Welby’s real message	Melanie McDonagh, The Spectator (UK)
29-09-2017	On telling the truth – and shaming the devil	Philip Mounstephen, Anglican Communion News Service blog
29-09-2017	Can the Church of England still afford nuance or ambiguity? Some final thoughts on Sir Philip Mawer's Sheffield review	Martyn Percy, Christian Today (UK)
28-09-2017	Godly discernment, not moral relativism: A rejoinder to Tony Payne	Scott Cowdell, ABC Religion and Ethics
28-09-2017	Evangelical Trump supporters: Don’t lecture us about Hefner’s sexual perversity	Brandon Ambrosino, RNS
27-09-2017	Democratic exclusions: Political identity and the problem of secularism	Charles Taylor, ABC Religion and Ethics
27-09-2017	The Anglican Communion – a ‘real’ family	Thabo Makgoba, Anglican Communion News Service blog
26-09-2017	Is there moral truth out there? A response to Scott Cowdell on gender and identity	Tony Payne, ABC Religion and Ethics
25-09-2017	Is God a figment of our imagination? On certainty, scepticism and the limits of proof	Alister McGrath, ABC Religion and Ethics
25-09-2017	Second best: Rethinking the roles of Church and State in the same-sex marriage debate	Jason Goroncy, ABC Religion and Ethics
22-09-2017	Born in discord, striving for harmony: The Lambeth Conference 150 years on	Jesse Zink, Church Times (UK)
22-09-2017	A question of authority	Janet Traill, Church Times
22-09-2017	This time it’s personal	Church Times editorial
22-09-2017	A bold plan to address the weaknesses in RE	John Hall, Church Times
22-09-2017	Praying and worshipping with ‘silver and gold’ at Primates’ Meeting 2017	Paul Kwong, ACNS blog
21-09-2017	Same-sex marriage and our inability to disagree: Lessons from Alasdair MacIntyre	Xavier Symons, ABC Religion and Ethics
20-09-2017	Legalising assisted dying would be a failure of collective human memory and imagination	Margaret Somerville, The Guardian Australia
20-09-2017	The Rohingya Genocide: The destruction of a people does not end at Myanmar's borders	Gerhard Hoffstaedter and Melanie O'Brien, ABC Religion and Ethics
19-09-2017	‘Yes’ vote won't affect religious freedom – even the freedom to discriminate	Jane Caro, The Sydney Morning Herald
15-09-2017	Forgiveness after abuse?	Christopher Cocksworth, Church Times (UK)
15-09-2017	Rewriting the anti-God script	Angela Tilby, Church Times
14-09-2017	Who are we? Hate and love in America	Jim Wallis, Sojourners (US)
12-09-2017	The fallen idol: Aung San Suu Kyi and the Politics of Personality	Andrew Selth, ABC Religion and Ethics
11-09-2017	The historian's impotence: The Stolen Generation is not a thing of the past	Helen Gardner, ABC Religion and Ethics
11-09-2017	Conscientious objection to war as a model for resolving other moral dilemmas	Neil James, ABC Religion and Ethics
08-09-2017	The disestablishment of the Church is now necessary and inevitable	Giles Fraser, The Guardian (UK)
07-09-2017	Beyond the harem: Muslim women fighting sexism is nothing new	Susan Carland, ABC Religion and Ethics
07-09-2017	What’s changed in Britain since same-sex marriage?	David Sergeant, The Spectator Australia
05-09-2017	Gender and personal identity: Two views	Bernadette Tobin, ABC Religion and Ethics
04-09-2017	How to read the Bible: On the use and misuse of the Bible in the same-sex marriage debate	Geoff Thompson, ABC Religion and Ethics
04-09-2017	Why the argument for same-sex marriage is not sound	John Ozolins, ABC Religion and Ethics
04-09-2017	Supermarket chain airbrushing crosses from food? You can’t just excise religion from life	Andrew Brown, The Guardian (UK)
04-09-2017	Storming the pixels: New frontiers of race activism	Tseen Khoo, Eureka Street
03-09-2017	‘Rampant Lawlessness’: How ‘radical’ is breaking unjust laws?	Gordon Preece, Ethos: Evangelical Alliance Centre for Christianity and Society
03-09-2017	Nuclear North Korea and the dangers of panic	Binoy Kampmark, Eureka Street
01-09-2017	Who is really air-brushing the past? Genocide, slavery and the return of the colonial repressed	A. Dirk Moses, ABC Religion and Ethics
01-09-2017	Who is ‘Marriage Equality’ serving? The Last Stand of Australia's Libertarian Left	Caroline Norma, ABC Religion and Ethics
01-09-2017	Bob Katter wants his wor(l)d back: Why gay marriage is good	Elenie Poulos, ABC Religion and Ethics
01-09-2017	Fostering dilemma	Church Times (UK) editorial
31-08-2017	We must strengthen the safety net, not tear it apart	Roland Manderson, Aspect, Anglicare Australia’s monthly newsletter
31-08-2017	Change the narrative, don't remove the monument: Lessons on iconoclasm from the past	Rachelle Gilmour and Lucie Breingan, ABC Religion and Ethics
31-08-2017	Season of Creation – Uniting Christians to care for creation	Rachel Mash, Anglican Communion News Service
30-08-2017	Paul, the Gospel and same-sex orientation: A response to Lionel Windsor	Sean Winter, ABC Religion and Ethics
30-08-2017	Paving the road to peaceful co-existence in Pakistan	Khushbakht Peters, ACNS blog
29-08-2017	What the Dickens is the point of blaming poor people for their lot?	Kasy Chambers, Huffington Post Australia
29-08-2017	A credibly Christian church would respect gay employees	Andrew Hamilton, Eureka Street
29-08-2017	Inside the ‘glass closet’ of a gay Catholic teacher	Alex Ryan, Eureka Street
29-08-2017	Where are the condemnations of Harvey as God’s punishment?	Kimberly Winston, Religion News Service (US)
28-08-2017	The Bible and Same-Sex Marriage: A response to Robyn Whitaker and Amy-Jill Levine	Lionel Windsor, ABC Religion and Ethics
28-08-2017	Twisting the cross: The deadly theology of white supremacy	Shane Claiborne, RNS
28-08-2017	Talk of same-sex marriage impinging on religious freedom is misconceived: here’s why	Carol Johnson and Marion Maddox, The Conversation
26-08-2017	Most Australians are rubbish at dying	Toby Hall, The Sydney Morning Herald
25-08-2017	Minister for Finance and ‘Successful’ People	George Browning blog, In Service of the Common Good
25-08-2017	Artificial Intelligence: A bishop’s guide to the key issues	Steven Croft, Diocese of Oxford bishop’s blog
25-08-2017	City church-plant resists secular overtures	Andrew Brown, Church Times (UK)
25-08-2017	Devoted to the memory of a king and a queen	Ted Harrison, Church Times
24-08-2017	Why ‘traditional’ marriage has room for same-sex couples: A theological perspective	Scott Cowdell, ABC Religion and Ethics
24-08-2017	Religion in Australian schools: an historical and contemporary debate	Emma Rowe, The Conversation
24-08-2017	The great divide where religious beliefs and the law meet	Michael Quinlan, The Conversation
24-08-2017	Ethnic religious communities may be the ‘No’ campaign’s secret weapon in same-sex marriage fight	Andrew Jakubowicz, The Conversation
23-08-2017	To Christians arguing ‘no’ on marriage equality: The Bible is not decisive	Robyn J Whitaker, The Conversation
23-08-2017	Not good to be alone: Rethinking the Bible and homosexuality	Amy-Jill Levine, ABC Religion and Ethics
23-08-2017	‘No religion’ and Jedi Knight find their place in Australian identity	Gary D Bouma, The Conversation
22-08-2017	How to ‘respectfully affirm’ marriage	Kanishka Raffel, Sydney Anglicans
22-08-2017	Drug tests add to winter of welfare discontent	Paul McDonald, Anglicare Victoria
22-08-2017	Official prayers in Federal Parliament are divisive and unconstitutional, and should be scrapped	Luke Beck, The Conversation
21-08-2017	Dual citizenship and elected office: Where lies the problem?	Geoffrey Brahm Levey, ABC Religion and Ethics
21-08-2017	As Australia becomes less religious, our parliament becomes more so	Jonathan D James, The Conversation
21-08-2017	Religious classes in schools must adapt to fit a changing Australia	Renae Barker, The Conversation
18-08-2017	A new hatred	Church Times (UK) editorial
18-08-2017	Facing uncomfortable truths about race	Julian Francis, Church Times
18-08-2017	Charlie Gard, a parable of our age	James Walters, Church Times
18-08-2017	Six reasons to vote yes if you hold to a classical Christian view of marriage	Susan Adams, Engage.Mail, Evangelical Alliance Centre for Christianity and Society
18-08-2017	This is not about the postal vote	Stephen McAlpine, Engage.Mail, EA Centre for Christianity and Society
17-08-2017	Religious freedom is an important right. Once same sex-marriage is legal, it must be protected	Frank Brennan, The Guardian Australia
17-08-2017	When it comes to same-sex marriage, not all views deserve respect	Peter Ellerton, The Conversation
17-08-2017	When it comes to removing controversial statues, where do we draw the line?	Bernie Smith (letter to the editor), The Independent (UK)
17-08-2017	The Sacrament of Reconciliation must be safeguarded: A response to Simon Longstaff	Hayden Ramsay, ABC Religion and Ethics
17-08-2017	Confession, child abuse and the Royal Commission	George Browning blog, In Service of the Common Good
16-08-2017	The reality and goodness of same-sex love demands the extension of marriage rites	Gary D Bouma, ABC Religion and Ethics
16-08-2017	Even for child abusers, confessional confidentiality is sacrosanct	Joanna Moorhead, The Guardian Australia
16-08-2017	Same-Sex Marriage; or, The Gentrification of Lesbian and Gay Radical Politics	Caroline Norma, ABC Religion and Ethics
15-08-2017	Same-sex marriage is more complex than the Yes campaign admits	Peter Kurti, ABC News
15-08-2017	The high political stakes of same-sex marriage	John Warhurst, Eureka Street
15-08-2017	Unsealing the Confessional: The duty of society versus the salvation of souls	Simon Longstaff, ABC Religion and Ethics
15-08-2017	White Supremacy versus the Gospel in Charlottesville	David Potter, Sojourners (US)
15-08-2017	Frank Brennan: Why I will break the law rather than the seal of confession	Frank Brennan, The Sydney Morning Herald
15-08-2017	Royal Commission provides a vital blueprint for justice for sex abuse victims – now it’s time to act	Michael Salter, The Conversation
15-08-2017	Competing rights in the same-sex marriage debate	Margaret Somerville, ABC Religion and Ethics
15-08-2017	Of murderers, bastards and inequality: neo-liberalism's failure	Andrew Hamilton, Eureka Street
15-08-2017	The unacceptable information vacuum on the new Christ Church Cathedral option	Michael Wright, The Press (NZ)/stuff.co.nz
14-08-2017	Who's Paul Kelly kidding? Churches don't need more protection from LGBTI rights	David Marr, The Guardian Australia
14-08-2017	The rationality of Kim Jong Un	Justin Glyn, Eureka Street
14-08-2017	The powerful symbolism of an unfinished Christ Church Cathedral	Mark Aitchison, The Press (NZ)/stuff.co.nz
14-08-2017	Is America headed for a new kind of Civil War?	Robin Wright, The New Yorker
13-08-2017	Using ignorance to know if mandatory drug testing laws are sound	Daniel Fleming, Eureka Street
13-08-2017	The tangles of technology	James Carleton with Margaret Somerville, David Swanton and Beth Doherty, ‘God Forbid’, ABC Radio National audio and text
11-08-2017	The right to the city: Clearing homeless camps compounds the human rights violation	Cristy Clark, ABC Religion and Ethics
11-08-2017	Church and tree-huggers, unite!	Joe Ware, Church Times (UK)
11-08-2017	Getting worked up about ‘RIP’ is itself an Orange indulgence	Giles Fraser, The Guardian (UK)
10-08-2017	Why marriage should be between a man and a woman	Michael Kellahan, The Age
10-08-2017	A world of majesty and cruelty	Catherine Marshall, Eureka Street
10-08-2017	How would Jesus respond to famine?	Adam Taylor, Sojourners (US)
10-08-2017	Why we didn't back euthanasia bill: NZ parliamentary committee chair	Simon O’Connor, New Zealand Herald
09-08-2017	The empty moral calculus of Turnbull and Trump	Andrew Hamilton, Eureka Street
08-08-2017	Values: Christian, Australian & Global	George Browning, In Service of the Common Good blog
08-08-2017	This point-scoring and deal-making with refugees’ lives is absurd	Behrouz Boochani, The Age
08-08-2017	The cruelty at Manus Island	Ann Deslandes, Eureka Street
07-08-2017	‘You don’t speak for me’: Christian support for marriage equality is growing	Keith Mascord, The Guardian Australia
07-08-2017	Faith in schools: What values are communicated in our teaching and learning?	David I Smith, ABC Religion and Ethics
06-08-2017	Religious Freedom protections in new same-sex marriage proposals: too few, too narrow	Neil Foster, Law and Religion Australia blog
05-08-2017	Chinese whispers at the ABC	Mark Durie, The Spectator Australia
05-08-2017	A response to the ABC report on domestic violence in churches	Graeme Cann, Ethos: Evangelical Alliance Centre for Christianity and Society
04-08-2017	Don’t jump off the mother ship — there’s work to do	Rachel Marszalek, Church Times (UK)
04-08-2017	In Khartoum: A bishop’s observations as Sudan becomes the Anglican Communion’s newest province	Nick Baines, Anglican Communion News Service blog
03-08-2017	The Mythical Middle	Peter Jensen, Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON)
02-08-2017	Progressive pieties, Islamist terrorism and the Catholic Church: A study in false equivalence	The Musings of Scott L Buchanan on Theology, Politics and the Christian Life blog
01-08-2017	It is time to stop equivocating about domestic violence	Sean Lau, Eureka Street
01-08-2017	Inequality is a political choice. No matter how long it takes, we will defeat it	John Falzon, The Guardian Australia
01-08-2017	The bipartisanship shame of refugee policy	Frank Brennan, Eureka Street
01-08-2017	England’s orthodox Anglicans: agreed on Synod’s implications, divided on what to do	Andrew Symes, Anglican Mainstream (UK)
31-07-2017	Climate change denialism is not just ‘another opinion’	Mick Pope, Ethos: Evangelical Alliance Centre for Christianity and Society
31-07-2017	When tolerance is not OK	Amanda Jackson, Ethos: EA Centre for Christianity and Society
30-07-2017	Faith: Euthanasia	Barney Zwartz, The Sunday Age
28-07-2017	Asking Christians to do better by domestic violence victims is not an attack on Christianity	Steven Tracy, ABC News
28-07-2017	Charlie Gard’s parents show the strength of human love	Giles Fraser, The Guardian (UK)
27-07-2017	Elijah Doughty decision shows there is rarely justice for Aboriginal victims	Celeste Liddle, Eureka Street
27-07-2017	School uniform policies need to accommodate students’ cultural practices	Renae Barker, The Conversation
26-07-2017	How churches enable domestic violence	Joanna Cruickshank, ABC Religion and Ethics
26-07-2017	As I know myself, there can be no winners in cases such as Charlie Gard's	Ian Birrell, The Guardian (UK)
25-07-2017	Three ways the Charlie Gard case could affect future end-of-life cases globally	Neera Bhatia, The Conversation
25-07-2017	The church must confront domestic abuse	Natasha Moore and John Dixon, ABC News (first published 12 March 2015)
24-07-2017	Domestic violence and Australian churches: why the current data have limitations	Naomi Priest, The Conversation
20-07-2017	Fundamental shifts in the Church of England General Synod	Chik Kaw Tan, GAFCON
19-07-2017	A plebiscite of one’s own	Alice Priest, ‘The Good Oil’, Sisters of the Good Samaritan
18-07-2017	Side by Side to a just future	Terrie Robinson, Anglican Communion News Service blog
18-07-2017	Christian persecution in the world	Gary Walker, St Columban’s Mission Society
17-07-2017	Armaments for sale	George Browning, In Service of the Common Good blog
17-07-2017	Getting rid of Christian labels and calling out sexism	Karina Kreminski, Ethos: Evangelical Alliance for Christianity and Society
17-07-2017	Is Synod competent?	Ian Paul, Psephizo – Scholarship. Serving. Ministry.
14-07-2017	Hearing the cries of the abused	Peter Selby, Church Times (UK)
14-07-2017	No magic wand	Church Times editorial
13-07-2017	The General Synod of the Church of England was so shocking. Here's why	David Baker, Christian Today (UK)
13-07-2017	Victory claimed in Mosul, but other battles loom	William Gourlay, Eureka Street
11-07-2017	Bookending Australia's history	Andrew Hamilton, Eureka Street
11-07-2017	Donald Horne’s ‘lucky country’ and the decline of the public intellectual	Frank Bongiorno, The Conversation
11-07-2017	The Church’s trans epiphany will ease the way for others like me	Tina Beardsley, The Guardian (UK)
10-07-2017	Census results: Are we really losing our religion?	Natasha Moore, The Daily Telegraph (NSW)
10-07-2017	Is there an Asian Australian culture?	Tseen Khoo, Eureka Street
10-07-2017	Climate revolutionaries of East Africa	Paul O’Callaghan, Eureka Street
10-07-2017	Why I will continue to wear vestments	Andrew Lightbown, Theore0 blog (UK)
09-07-2017	North Korea, Trump and war	Binoy Kampmark, Eureka Street
07-07-2017	Red dots spatter wall of ‘great Australian silence’ over black/white frontier violence	Paul Daley, The Guardian Australia
07-07-2017	Of money and morals: how did usury stop being a sin and become respectable finance?	Alex Mayyasi, Aeon
05-07-2017	Religion and the Census: Australia's unique relationship to faith and unbelief	Renae Barker, ABC Religion and Ethics
05-07-2017	Here I stand	George Browning blog, In Service of the Common Good
04-07-2017	The manor and the workhouse in modern Australia	Andrew Hamilton, Eureka Street
30-06-2017	The religious revolution that shook the world	Alec Ryrie, Church Times (UK)
30-06-2017	Destruction of Mosul's Great Mosque holds a heritage lesson for Australia	Dale Stephens and Tara Gutman, The Guardian Australia
29-06-2017	Confessions of a White Supremacist	Joanna Cruickshank, ABC Religion and Ethics
29-06-2017	Despite census results we dismiss religion at our peril	Christine Burke, Eureka Street
28-06-2017	Tolkien's inspiration for climate advocates	Tim Beshara, Eureka Street
23-06-2017	After the Grenfell fire, the church got it right where the council failed	Giles Fraser, The Guardian (UK)
02-06-2017	Note to Margaret Court: The Bible isn't meant to be read that literally	Robyn J Whitaker, ABC News
02-06-2017	Patronising or inciting? Debating terrorism in an Age of Anger	A Dirk Moses, ABC Religion and Ethics
02-06-2017	There’s Movement at the (Radio) Station	Paul Collins, Pearls and Irritations blog (John Menadue)
02-06-2017	Post-Christian nation looks back in mourning	Andrew Brown, Church Times (UK)
02-06-2017	Other common foes	Church Times editorial
02-06-2017	Mrs May is looking weak and wobbly	Paul Vallely, Church Times
01-06-2017	What lies beneath: The reasons for Christian opposition to marriage equality	Keith Mascord, ABC Religion and Ethics
01-06-2017	Reconciliation: The family business	Sarah Judd, Ethos: Evangelical Alliance for Christianity and Society
31-05-2017	The sad legacy of 1967: Citizenship, exclusion and the denial of Indigenous sovereign rights	Aileen Moreton-Robinson, ABC Religion and Ethics
31-05-2017	ABC devalues religion reporting at its peril	Rohan Salmond, Eureka Street
31-05-2017	The Mancunian Way: Manchester shows how to live together in an Age of Terror	Anna Rowlands, ABC Religion and Ethics
30-05-2017	Uluru: take time to get this right	Frank Brennan, Eureka Street
29-05-2017	Uluru Statement has lit a fuse that cannot go out	Kate Galloway, Eureka Street
29-05-2017	Reflections on Coptic Martyrdom	Chris Marshall, Ethos: Evangelical Alliance for Christianity and Society
26-05-2017	Where was God in Manchester? Reflections on the reality of evil	Raymond Apple, ABC Religion and Ethics
26-05-2017	The battle for the soul of Europe	Christopher Hill, Church Times
25-05-2017	Bishop Victoria Matthews: Three more months to wait for Christchurch Cathedral decision not excessive	Victoria Matthews, The Press (NZ)
25-05-2017	Building social justice through shareholder advocacy	Ann Deslandes, Eureka Street
24-05-2017	Philippines coming full, sordid circle	Fatima Measham, Eureka Street
23-05-2017	Gonski in an age of budget repair	Frank Brennan, Eureka Street
21-05-2017	Still fighting for our rights 50 years after the referendum	Dani Larkin, Eureka Street
21-05-2017	Assange detention is far from over	Binoy Kampmark, Eureka Street
19-05-2017	Newcastle Anglican Bishop Greg Thompson restored faith in faith	The Newcastle Herald (NSW) editorial
15-05-2017	Why now? The deeply strange timing of the renegade conservative Anglicans	Andy Walton, Anglican Communion News Service
15-05-2017	Justin Welby is not a heretic, he’s a very faithful Anglican	Adrian Hilton, Archbishop Cranmer blog (UK)
15-05-2017	Where is the Church? The responsibility of Christians in the UK General Election	Angus Ritchie, ABC Religion and Ethics
14-05-2017	Ahok is innocent and Indonesia needs him	Pat Walsh, Eureka Street
12-05-2017	‘Great white walls’: Australia's history of racialised border control and weaponised values	Christopher Mayes and Michael Thompson, ABC Religion and Ethics
12-05-2017	The rise of so-called happy funerals is no laughing matter	Giles Fraser, The Guardian (UK)
12-05-2017	‘Order! Order!’: Reflections on the Jesmond Consecration	Andrew Goddard, Fulcrum: Renewing the evangelical centre (UK)
11-05-2017	The Jesmond Consecration	Mark Thompson, Theological Theology blog (NSW)
11-05-2017	Should evangelicals be embarrassed by Newcastle, UK?	Ian Paul, Psephizo – Scholarship. Serving. Ministry blog (UK)
11-05-2017	This latest Church of England schism has an unexpected source	Andrew Brown, The Guardian (UK)
08-05-2017	Right minds	Church Times (UK) editorial
08-05-2017	The Tim Farron Question and the Archbishop of Canterbury	Kelvin Holdsworth, What’s in Kelvin’s Head blog (UK)
05-05-2017	Support for the Adani coal mine is scientifically and morally unjustifiable	Stephen Pickard and Thea Ormerod, ABC Religion and Ethics
05-05-2017	Anyone can be difficult	Church Times (UK) editorial
05-05-2017	Yes, the poor will be with us — so fight on	Justin Thacker, Church Times
04-05-2017	Citizenship, dissent and political disagreement: An exchange	Mario Peucker and Scott Stephens, ABC Religion and Ethics
03-05-2017	White American Evangelical Christianity is a bubble — and it’s about to burst	Jim Wallis, Sojourners (US)
01-05-2017	Beyond fake news lies the fog of fake figures	David James, Eureka Street
01-05-2017	Dying at home might sound preferable. But I’ve seen the reality	Ranjana Srivastava, The Guardian Australia
29-04-2017	How to have a better death	The Economist (UK) editorial
29-04-2017	The Church Times Podcast	Church Times (UK) audio
28-04-2017	Wresting politics from the politicians	Church Times editorial
28-04-2017	Parliamentarians’ beliefs deserve a fair hearing	Nick Spencer, Church Times
25-04-2017	Going over the top: Anzac stoicism, sacrifice and the constriction of Australian values	Stephen Pickard, ABC Religion and Ethics
25-04-2017	How Anzac Day came to occupy a sacred place in Australians’ hearts	Carolyn Holbrook, The Conversation
24-04-2017	Every church wedding is a public event – even Pippa Middleton’s	Peter Ormerod, The Guardian (UK)
24-04-2017	Which Australia? Whose values? Turnbull's recycled rhetoric pushes Muslims further to the margins	Randa Abdel-Fattah, ABC Religion and Ethics
24-04-2017	America’s real first freedom? Secular government	Michael De Dora and Nick Little, Religion News Service (US)
21-04-2017	Thankfulness: the path to joy	Church Times (UK) editorial
20-04-2017	Australia’s Christians form a broader political church than most realise	John Warhurst, The Age
20-04-2017	Polluting public space: Australia should follow France's lead on degrading sexist advertising	Melinda Tankard Reist, ABC Religion and Ethics
19-04-2017	Be bold for change to renew our world	Gillian King, Canberra and Goulburn Anglican Community
18-04-2017	Rogue relations: The US vs North Korea	Binoy Kampmark, Eureka Street
17-04-2017	UK politicians are more devout than ever – so it's time we started taking their faith seriously	Nick Spencer, The Telegraph (UK) video, text and images
16-04-2017	If you want to save the Church of England, then get stuck in (and go to church)	Melanie McDonagh, The Spectator (UK)
15-04-2017	Trump and Syria: Some brief observations	The Musings of Scott L. Buchanan on Theology, Politics and the Christian Life (blog)
15-04-2017	Why I admire the Church of England	Matthew Parris, The Spectator text and audio
14-04-2017	Jesus was on the side of the poor and exploited. Christian politicians should remember that	Brad Chilcott, The Guardian Australia
14-04-2017	Good Friday essay: Passion plays and the ethics of spectacular violence	Paul Megna, The Conversation
14-04-2017	God save us all from the dangers of this intense religious fervour	Giles Fraser, The Guardian (UK)
13-04-2017	When it comes to euthanasia, not all slippery slope arguments are ‘bull----’	Xavier Symons, The Conversation
13-04-2017	Road to the Cross is still being walked	Church Times (UK) editorial
13-04-2017	Unite to defend aid from its critics	Joe Ware, Church Times
13-04-2017	Elephant in the cathedral: Why are so many Anglican holy places empty and, thus, low on funds?	Terry Mattingly, Get Religion blog (US) video and text
12-04-2017	Easter is the right time to find homes for children	Andrew Hamilton, Eureka Street
11-04-2017	It’s time to acknowledge the war on Christianity	Tim Stanley, The Sydney Morning Herald
10-04-2017	How the United Nations is shamed by its failure to act on religious killings	Barney Zwartz, Herald Sun
10-04-2017	The Festival of Freedom: Moral concepts of Passover	Raymond Apple, ABC Religion and Ethics
10-04-2017	Counsels of Love	Christopher Wells, Anglican Communion News Service
09-04-2017	Waiting for the trickle-down effect	Frank Brennan, Eureka Street
09-04-2017	Striking Syria and the vagueness of humanitarian intervention	Binoy Kampmark, Eureka Street
08-04-2017	When politics is a game of perception not policy, everyone loses	Lenore Taylor, The Guardian Australia
07-04-2017	Shame on you, Peter Dutton	George Browning, In Service of the Common Good blog
07-04-2017	Dangerous world	Church Times (UK) editorial
07-04-2017	Israel makes sense only from the perspective of Passover	Giles Fraser, The Guardian (UK)
07-04-2017	The BBC and religion: bad decisions, badly timed	Roger Bolton, Church Times (UK)
06-04-2017	No easy judgement in Syrian chemicals attack	Justin Glyn, Eureka Street
06-04-2017	Adani – A call for civil disobedience	George Browning, In Service of the Common Good blog
06-04-2017	How (not) to defend ‘Christian Society’: Why is the Murdoch Press backing authoritarian ultra-nationalists?	A. Dirk Moses, ABC Religion and Ethics
06-04-2017	Religious literacy routs Islamophobia	Ann Deslandes, Eureka Street
04-04-2017	Why do schools want all students to look the same?	Amanda Mergler, The Conversation
04-04-2017	Easter eggs aren’t even Christian – so why squabble over them?	Peter Ormerod, The Guardian (UK) video and text
04-04-2017	Funding heritage: save buildings if not beliefs	The Guardian (UK) editorial
03-04-2017	Is Christianity bad news for women?	Amy Orr-Ewing, Centre for Public Christianity audio and text
03-04-2017	What economics has to say about housing bubbles	Timo Henckel, The Conversation
03-04-2017	Deconstructing the privatisation scam	David James, Eureka Street
01-04-2017	Christchurch Cathedral talks are a ‘sham’	Philip Burdon, The Press (NZ)
31-03-2017	Sincerity is not enough: the problem with the problem of sincere disbelief	Michael Jensen, ABC News
31-03-2017	God and the problem of sincere disbelief	Michael Collett, ABC News
31-03-2017	The forgotten 660,000 locked out of home ownership	Piers Gooding, The Conversation
30-03-2017	Climate pipe dreams	Greg Foyster, Eureka Street
30-03-2017	Tackling wealth inequality through justice reinvestment	Ann Deslandes, Eureka Street
30-03-2017	A sanctuary politics: Being the Church in the time of Trump	Stanley Hauerwas & Jonathan Tran, ABC Religion and Ethics
29-03-2017	Selective schools’ long and tangled history with race and class	Helen Proctor and Arathi Sriprakash, The Conversation
29-03-2017	As Brexit begins, Australia mustn’t get caught up in Britain’s post-imperial fantasies	Ben Wellings, The Conversation
28-03-2017	Brexit creates a human rights crisis for Ireland	Amy Maguire, The Conversation
28-03-2017	Ranking the Self, ruining the Soul: What has been lost in a Social Media Age?	Keith Burnett, ABC Religion and Ethics
27-03-2017	There are more useful questions to ask than whether Australia has ‘too many’ charities	David Gilchrist and Penny Knight, The Conversation
27-03-2017	Palestinian water divide highlights discrimination	Na'ama Carlin, Eureka Street
27-03-2017	Bishop of Sheffield controversy: Martyn Percy asked for bread; Sentamu and Welby give a stone	Archbishop Cranmer blog (UK)
23-03-2017	Rethinking and reconstructing youth justice	Terry Laidler, Eureka Street
22-03-2017	Scientific expertise in a time of pervasive scepticism: Enlightenment values cannot help us now	Peter Harrison, ABC Religion and Ethics
22-03-2017	World Water Day 2017: ‘We all live downstream’	Rachel Mash, Anglican Communion News Service
17-03-2017	A PR stunt mixing beer, politics, gay rights and religion: what could possibly go wrong?	Joshua Robertson, The Guardian Australia
17-03-2017	Lost in translation	Church Times (UK) editorial
16-03-2017	Bible Society's blunder was excluding LGBTI voices	Rohan Salmond, Eureka Street
16-03-2017	We need civil conversations about religion and marriage equality	Michael McVeigh, Eureka Street
16-03-2017	Fear behind closed doors	Elaine Storkey, Church Times (UK)
16-03-2017	Forgive us our trespasses? The economics of the Lord's Prayer	Marcia Pally, ABC Religion and Ethics
15-03-2017	Illiberal, censorious and ugly: the modern left will drive you to drink	John Slater, The Spectator Australia
14-03-2017	The decline of religious freedom and the return of religious influence	John Milbank, ABC Religion and Ethics
13-03-2017	Beers and bibles: How Coopers created their own PR disaster	Andrew P Street, The Sydney Morning Herald
10-03-2017	A second vote	Church Times (UK) editorial
09-03-2017	Lament of a pro-life feminist	Kate Moriarty, Eureka Street
09-03-2017	Why we should teach children about the Bible in school	Greg Clarke, The Sydney Morning Herald
08-03-2017	Feminist Muslims and Christian suffragettes	Kathleen McPhillips and Dai Le, ‘Religion and Ethics Report’, ABC Radio National audio, video, text and image
08-03-2017	Larger principles underpin Pope's beggar belief	Andrew Hamilton, Eureka Street
08-03-2017	Discovering Virtue: How to be good in Higher Education	Mike Higton, Anglican Communion Office/ACNS
07-03-2017	How clergy became scapegoats of the sex abuse crisis in the Anglican Church	Muriel Porter, The Conversation
07-03-2017	A new story for an old land: 200 years of the Bible Society in Australia	John Harris, ABC Religion and Ethics
07-03-2017	Does Trump’s revised immigration order escape the original sin?	Mark Silk, Religion News Service (US)
05-03-2017	Faith: Bible's influence continues to motivate public good	Barney Zwartz, The Age
05-03-2017	Is the Church's culture of shame increasing abortions?	Michael Paget, ABC
05-03-2017	People of faith are being driven from public life	Stephen Daisley, The Spectator (UK)
04-03-2017	Why the C of E must be a broad church when it comes to new Bishop of Sheffield	Arun Arora, The Yorkshire Post (UK)
03-03-2017	Equality campaign at UN is about a fundamental issue of justice	Johanna Fadipe, Anglican Communion News Service
03-03-2017	Through a lens darkly	Church Times (UK) editorial
03-03-2017	Reasons to be cheerful about Brexit	Dan Stork Banks, Church Times
03-03-2017	Sheffield’s new bishop is a slap in the face for the women of steel	Giles Fraser, The Guardian Australia
03-03-2017	Anglicans are for the decriminalisation of LGBT people worldwide	Maurice Tomlinson, Living Reconciliation (UK)
02-03-2017	Adam Smith, penalty rates and the Christian Gospel	George Browning, In Service of the Common Good blog
01-03-2017	Trump’s missing agenda in Congress speech? Moral issues	David Gibson, Religion News Service (US)
01-03-2017	Lamenting our gentrified churches	F Romall Smalls, RNS
01-03-2017	World Water Day: An invitation	Russell Rollason, Canberra and Goulburn Anglican Community
24-02-2017	Gift of charity	Church Times (UK) editorial
22-02-2017	Turnbull has clearly chosen: Australia stands alone on Israel	George Browning, The Guardian Australia
22-02-2017	Trump’s US Supreme Court nominee’s Anglicanism is still a mystery that journalists need to solve	Julia Duin, Get Religion (US)
22-02-2017	Uganda: Let Church rise above politics	The Monitor (Uganda) editorial/allafrica.com
21-02-2017	Frustration on all sides in the Christchurch Cathedral debate	The Press (NZ) editorial
21-02-2017	Senses of belonging: How Indigenous sovereignty unsettles White Australia	Aileen Moreton-Robinson, ABC Religion and Ethics
20-02-2017	Faith and politics – two separate domains?	Trevor Edwards, Canberra and Goulburn Anglican Community
17-02-2017	How English QC John Smyth justified the abuse	Linda Woodhead and Andrew Brown, Church Times
17-02-2017	Not strained; Plea for justice	Church Times editorial
17-02-2017	Pauline Hanson, Jacqui Lambie and their Holy War	Max Chalmers, New Matilda
16-02-2017	On Synod, sexuality, and not ‘Taking note’	Ian Paul, Psephizo blog (UK)
16-02-2017	If the Church of England continues to smother liberal Anglicans, it is heading for a split	Michael Fabricant, The Telegraph (UK)
15-02-2017	Language, power and harm in clerical sexual misconduct	Stephen de Weger, Eureka Street
15-02-2017	We all benefit from having migrant workers	Fatima Measham, Eureka Street
15-02-2017	I'm a bleeding-heart liberal cleric – but the Church of England must not accept gay marriage	George Pitcher, The Telegraph (UK)
15-02-2017	No winners	Zachary Guiliano, The Living Church (US)
13-02-2017	Episcopal Church a fitting place for conservative US Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch	Andrew Petiprin, Orlando Sentinel (US)
13-02-2017	The Guardian view on Anglicans and gay clergy: Stop listening, start leading	The Guardian Australia editorial
13-02-2017	Uprooting toxic inequality	Andrew Hamilton, Eureka Street
12-02-2017	The hypocritical chaplain?	Ben Boland, Sydney Anglicans
12-02-2017	The Catholic wrap-up at the Royal Commission	Frank Brennan, Eureka Street
11-02-2017	The slow, strange race to be the next Bishop of London	Ysenda Maxtone Graham, The Spectator (UK)
10-02-2017	Open up the doors and let the people come in	Tim Thorlby, Church Times (UK)
10-02-2017	Everything hinges on three words: A response to the C of E bishops’ report on sexuality	Andrew Davison, Church Times
10-02-2017	The pain lies in facing hard truths	Malcolm Brown, Church Times (UK)
10-02-2017	Trump on torture	Church Times editorial
06-02-2017	Trump's pro-globalisation critics miss the key questions	David James, Eureka Street
06-02-2017	Challenging the Secularist Narrative	Scott Buchanan, Ethos: Evangelical Alliance Centre for Christianity and Society
05-02-2017	Christian shepherds side with the Islamist wolf	Jules Gomes, The Conservative Woman blog (UK)
04-02-2017	Who will protect Nigeria’s northern Christians?	Douglas Murray, The Spectator (UK)
03-02-2017	Fifty years without the death penalty, Australia should be grateful	Richard Shumack, ABC Religion and Ethics
03-02-2017	Why Australians will never let go of Christianity	John Dickson, The Daily Telegraph (NSW)
03-02-2017	The united front	Church Times editorial
02-02-2017	Alternative facts in the Centrelink debacle	Kasy Chambers, Eureka Street
02-02-2017	The state of the nation starts in your street	Hugh Mackay, The Conversation
01-02-2017	Gorsuch and the big-scare ‘religion’ stuff? So far, little light shed on Trump’s US Supreme Court pick	Julia Duin, Get Religion (US) video and text
01-02-2017	Pursuing integral peace: How to resist Trump's politics of despair	Anna Rowlands, ABC Religion and Ethics
01-02-2017	Obama built the foundations for Trump's Muslim ban	Justin Glyn, Eureka Street
31-01-2017	The ban is not about national security	Jim Wallis, Sojourners (US)
31-01-2017	Choosing love over fear: Washington’s Bishop responds to Trump’s first days in office	Mariann Edgar Budde, Episcopal News Service (US)
30-01-2017	Victoria's youth justice crisis has been building for decades	Paul McDonald, The Age
27-01-2017	Repenting of the Reformation: Apologising for all the wrong things!	Joe Boot, Christian Concern (UK)
26-01-2017	When faiths collide, the first victims are always the moderates	Andrew Brown, The Guardian Australia
25-01-2017	Does Trump’s presidency signal the end of the ‘American Century’?	A James Rudin, Religion News Service (US)
23-01-2017	I see Truganini in chains: The idolatry of flags	Mick Pope, Ethos: EA Centre for Christianity and Society
22-01-2017	Spiritual instruction shows we must respect and ‘honour’ Donald Trump	Barney Zwartz, The Age
18-01-2017	The sweet song of Christian unity	Zack Guiliano, Anglican Communion News Service
17-01-2017	Obama's shining light in sombre times	Andrew Hamilton, Eureka Street
16-01-2017	Response to ‘Suck it up and get on with the job’	Kara Martin, Ethos: Evangelical Alliance for Christianity and Society
16-01-2017	Dying with dignity	Megan Best, Sydney Anglicans
16-01-2017	Timorese have had a win but could still lose big-time	Frank Brennan, Eureka Street
16-01-2017	Why the cathedral Quran reading deserved its rebuke	Peter Ould, Christian Today (UK)
13-01-2017	Can the Religious Right be saved?	Russell D Moore, First Things (US)
13-01-2017	Beware of the siege mentality: Churches are investing in the wrong kinds of security measures	Nick Tolson, Church Times (UK)
12-01-2017	Maintaining children's rights amid youth detention crises	Kate Galloway, Eureka Street
12-01-2017	Can the Church survive the Islamist onslaught?	Barnabas Fund (UK) editorial
10-01-2017	Slippery slopes: Why the denial of ‘scope creep’ and abuse in euthanasia?	Margaret Somerville, ABC Religion and Ethics
10-01-2017	Obama's Presidency revealed our best and worst selves	Jim Wallis, Sojourners (US)
06-01-2017	A man recently broke into my church. Good on him, I say	Giles Fraser, The Guardian Australia
06-01-2017	Work is far more than a means to an end	Eve Poole, Church Times (UK)
05-01-2017	What does the election of Donald Trump mean for the task of democratic citizenship?	Scott Stephens and others, ABC Religion and Ethics
05-01-2017	Why I have hope for 2017	Rachel Mash, Anglican Communion News Service
05-01-2017	Resistance Is Patriotic — and Christian	Jim Wallis, Sojourners (US)
04-01-2017	Liberal churches are dying. But conservative churches are thriving.	David Haskell, The Washington Post
04-01-2017	Enough’s enough: Buying more stuff isn’t always the answer to happiness	Anthony James, The Conversation
02-01-2017	The Reformation 500 years on: Do we need 95 New Theses for the 21st century?	Martyn Percy, Archbishop Cranmer blog (UK)
31-12-2016	Is GAFCON the problem?	Peter Jensen, Global Anglican Future Conference
29-12-2016	Don’t let the news get you down – things will get better, they always do	Simon Jenkins, The Guardian Australia
28-12-2016	The End of the World? 2016, the Year of Living Apocalyptically	Rachelle Gilmour, ABC Religion and Ethics
23-12-2016	We must never give in to the forces of hate	The Age editorial
23-12-2016	Flip the script, a message for Christmas	Natasha Moore, The Age
22-12-2016	Explainer: why some churches teach that women are ‘separate but equal’	Tanya Riches and Mark Jennings, The Conversation
22-12-2016	Jesus probably wasn't born on December 25... and other Christmas myths	Candida Moss, The Age
21-12-2016	Australians have an increasingly complex, yet relatively peaceful, relationship with religion	Renae Barker, The Conversation
20-12-2016	The Son and the Sun: How Christmas became a Christian Feast	Andrew McGowan, ABC Religion and Ethics
19-12-2016	The seven deadly things we’re doing to trash the planet (and human life with it)	John Vidal, The Guardian Australia
18-12-2016	Guilt-edged smartphones make an unhappy Christmas gift	Francine Crimmins, Eureka Street
16-12-2016	Is Anglicanism growing or dying? Statistics, the C of E, and the Anglican Communion	David Goodhew, The Living Church (US)
15-12-2016	Christmas story trumps the games that power plays	Andrew Hamilton, Eureka Street
15-12-2016	Why 2017 will be a crunch year for the Church of England	Andrew Goddard, Church of England Newspaper
14-12-2016	There’s dignity in death without assisted suicide	Adelaide Melia, Herald Sun video and text
14-12-2016	The reality of Safe Schools	Gay Alcorn, The Guardian Australia videos, text and images
13-12-2016	Post-truth, euthanasia and elder abuse: Making the connections	Margaret Somerville, ABC Religion and Ethics
13-12-2016	‘O little town of Bethlehem, how still we see thee lie’	Marella Rebgetz, The Good Oil (Sisters of the Good Samaritan)
13-12-2016	Under threat from terrorism, Coptic culture remains eternally powerful	Jonathan Jones, The Guardian Australia
12-12-2016	Bomb attack on Cairo’s Coptic Cathedral	Bishop Angaelos, Anglican Communion News Service
12-12-2016	Endurance and decay: Does Christianity have a future in the Middle East?	Samuel Tadros, ABC Religion and Ethics
09-12-2016	Americans want assisted suicide	Mark Silk, Religion News Service (US)
09-12-2016	Oh my… British Prime Minister Theresa May appears to be a serious Anglican Christian	Mark Kellner, Get Religion (US) video and text
09-12-2016	The theology behind the Church of England's Renewal and Reform program	Jeremy Worthen, Church Times (UK)
09-12-2016	You say ‘elite media’, I say real journalism. And now more than ever we must fight to keep it	Denis Muller, The Conversation
09-12-2016	British values and where to find them	Church Times (UK) editorial
07-12-2016	When we give ourselves permission	Fatima Measham, Eureka Street
07-12-2016	Elderly tourists on border control hit list	Catherine Marshall, Eureka Street
06-12-2016	Trump and Australia	Paul Tyson, Ethos: Evangelical Alliance Centre for Christianity and Society
06-12-2016	Amending the Marriage Act: The case for change	Karl Hand, Ethos: EA Centre for Christianity and Society
06-12-2016	Amending the Marriage Act: The case against change	David Griffin, Ethos: EA Centre for Christianity and Society
05-12-2016	‘The Guardian’ view on Christianity in Britain: Neither here nor there	The Guardian (UK) editorial
05-12-2016	You cannot have a society without a shared moral code	Jonathan Sacks, Diocese of Perth
04-12-2016	Religious media cuts undermine harmony	Kasy Chambers, Eureka Street
02-12-2016	Mammon’s victims	Church Times (UK) editorial
01-12-2016	Heeding the voices of the popular revolution	Philip North, Church Times
23-11-2016	Unions, clubs, churches. Joining something might be the best act of resistance	Peter Lewis, The Guardian Australia
23-11-2016	A New America will come: The voices I'm thankful for	Jim Wallis, Sojourners (US)
22-11-2016	Politics complicate blasphemy investigations in Indonesia and around the world	Rafiqa Qurrata A'yun, The Conversation
22-11-2016	How Hispanics helped put Trump in the White House	Samuel Rodriguez, Religion News Service (US)
22-11-2016	Mythbusting Ancient Rome – throwing Christians to the lions	Shushma Malik and Caillan Davenport, The Conversation
21-11-2016	Mainstream mindset fails remote Aboriginal students	Dennis McIntosh, Eureka Street
21-11-2016	The surprising rise of Trump	Simon Smart and William Cavanaugh, Centre for Public Christianity video
20-11-2016	Pathways to real jobs in a changing work landscape	Kasy Chambers, Eureka Street
18-11-2016	Trump and the evangelicals	Theos: Clear thinking on religion and society blog (UK)
18-11-2016	Rise of faith schools will deeply divide our society	Stephen Evans, TES (UK)
18-11-2016	Dark clouds with Trump’s outlook on climate	Church Times editorial
17-11-2016	Ten Commitments of Resistance in the Trump Era	Jim Wallis, Sojourners (US)
17-11-2016	Truth and consequences: How Christianity shaped the West	Natasha Moore, ABC Religion and Ethics
16-11-2016	Royal Commission hears prominent Newcastle Anglicans ‘punished’ a former bishop	Newcastle Herald (NSW) editorial
16-11-2016	Leaders out of step with their faiths' climate teaching	Thea Ormerod and Stephen Pickard, Eureka Street
16-11-2016	US election: Why did evangelicals vote for Donald Trump?	Michael Bird, ABC News
16-11-2016	Donald Trump: Apostle of America's civil religion	Marcia Pally, ABC Religion and Ethics
16-11-2016	Fellow white evangelicals: Your votes for Trump shook my faith	Sam Thielman, The Guardian Australia
16-11-2016	US goes rogue on climate	Greg Foyster, Eureka Street
15-11-2016	It takes a village to prevent institutional sexual abuse	Toni Hassan, The Age
15-11-2016	Daniel Andrews’ war on religion falters	Mark Sneddon, The Spectator Australia
15-11-2016	A vision where our differences are laid aside	Suheil Dawani, Anglican Communion News Service text and images
15-11-2016	Why reconciliation with President-elect Trump may be impossible for some Christians	Gay Clark Jennings, Religion News Service (US)
12-11-2016	White evangelicals are playing the long game. This is the result they wanted	Hollis Phelps, The Guardian Australia
11-11-2016	Inequality trumps politics	Russell Rollason, Canberra and Goulburn Anglican Community
11-11-2016	Now for the reality	Church Times (UK) editorial
11-11-2016	Still defensive	Church Times editorial
11-11-2016	This US election result is a terrific argument for monarchy	Giles Fraser, The Guardian Australia
10-11-2016	How to go on? Democratic politics in the Age of Trump	Luke Bretherton, ABC Religion and Ethics
26-09-2016	Another win for ‘David’ Timor against ‘Goliath’ Australia	Frank Brennan, Eureka Street
25-09-2016	Young man burned by Australia's detention hell	Lisa Stewart, Eureka Street
23-09-2016	An unenviable task: C of E bishops seek path ahead on same-sex relationships	Church Times (UK) editorial
23-09-2016	Science alone does not have all the answers	Sharon Dirckx, Christian Today (UK)
22-09-2016	Victoria's Equal Opportunity Act: Inherent requirements and the problem of discrimination	Mark Sneddon, ABC Religion and Ethics
22-09-2016	Do we need more vicars?	Ian Paul, Psephizo: Scholarship. Serving. Ministry (UK)
20-09-2016	Recognition: Yes or No? The ABC asks the wrong questions of the wrong people	Amy Maguire, The Conversation
20-09-2016	Marriage is people’s institution, so they should decide its future	Andrew Hastie, The Australian
20-09-2016	About death and dying	Joanna Thyer, The Good Oil (Sisters of the Good Samaritan)
19-09-2016	Child sex abuse doesn’t create paedophiles	Xanthe Mallett, The Conversation
19-09-2016	Private resettlement models offer a way for Australia to lift its refugee intake	Susan Kneebone, Asher Hirsch and Audrey Macklin, The Conversation
18-09-2016	Count the cost of Apple's September sell	Megan Graham, Eureka Street
18-09-2016	The Intolerance of Tolerance	Raj Gupta, Sydney Anglicans
17-09-2016	Battlelines drawn on same-sex marriage plebiscite	Mike Seccombe, The Saturday Paper
16-09-2016	The fantasy of the beautiful nomad is morally bankrupt	Giles Fraser, The Guardian Australia
16-09-2016	Australia is in danger of being swamped by Muslims? The numbers tell a different story	Alex Reilly, The Conversation
16-09-2016	How to have a better conversation about marriage equality: A summit, not a plebiscite	Angus McLeay and Gordon Preece, ABC Religion and Ethics
15-09-2016	Pauline's peddling the hate again	Rachel Woodlock, Eureka Street
15-09-2016	Battling the Pauline Hanson battler myth	Osmond Chiu, Eureka Street
15-09-2016	Breaking news: marriage has very little to do with religion (and vice versa)	Timothy W Jones, The Conversation
15-09-2016	Pauline Hanson on Islam: When elected representatives think like religious fundamentalists	Halim Rane, ABC Religion and Ethics
14-09-2016	Hope, not nihilism, is the antidote to bleak times	Fatima Measham, Eureka Street
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10-11-2016	Life & Faith: The elephant NOT in the room	Simon Smart, Natasha Moore, Barney Zwartz, Karen Tong, Simon Mann and Ari Goldman, Centre for Public Christianity audio
08-11-2016	Enough is enough: There are bigger issues than gay marriage	Lyle Shelton, The Daily Telegraph (NSW) video and text
08-11-2016	How the Church of England lost the English people	Linda Woodhead, ABC Religion and Ethics
04-11-2016	Countering the politics of resentment	Stanley Hauerwas, Church Times (UK)
02-11-2016	Many evangelicals support Donald Trump. It could be their downfall	Anthea Butler, The Guardian Australia
30-10-2016	Is the Reformation still necessary?	Mark Thompson, Sydney Anglicans
25-10-2016	The anxiety and grief is almost tangible in the ‘Calais Jungle’	Jessica Foster, Anglican Communion News Service
24-10-2016	Mosul and Aleppo: A tale of two sieges	Justin Glyn, Eureka Street
24-10-2016	Stand with heroic Gillian Triggs	Moira Rayner, Eureka Street
21-10-2016	The logic fail of Christian objections to marriage equality	Jane Gilmore, news.com.au
21-10-2016	Why I don’t think we should redefine marriage to include same-sex couples	Michael Stead, news.com.au
20-10-2016	Flagging patriotism in a divided world	Gillian Bouras, Eureka Street
19-10-2016	There is racism in the church… and some of these stories will shock you	Michael Jensen, Eternity (Bible Society Australia)
19-10-2016	Are the Maori separate and equal?	Philip Jenkins, The Christian Century (US)
18-10-2016	A policy that diminishes us all	Hugh Mackay, The Good Oil (Sisters of the Good Samaritan)
18-10-2016	Remembering the young who died at Santa Cruz	Susan Connelly, The Good Oil
18-10-2016	Money and Religion: The Greeks got it right – they tax the Church	Brian Morris, New Matilda
17-10-2016	The beginning of the end for super-greenhouse gasses	Rachel Mash, Anglican Communion News Service
17-10-2016	Asylum seeker's long wait for judgement day	Shira Sebban, Eureka Street
17-10-2016	FactCheck Q&A: What are the real numbers on refugees and other migrants coming to Australia?	Khanh Hoang, reviewed by Sara Davies, The Conversation
16-10-2016	There's room at the table for the poor... if we make it	Julie Edwards, Eureka Street
15-10-2016	Marriage equality supporters' hope for a free conscience vote	Frank Brennan, Eureka Street
14-10-2016	‘Marriage Equality’ or ‘Same-Sex Marriage’? Why words matter	Margaret Somerville, ABC Religion and Ethics
13-10-2016	The road to closer pilgrimage	Paula Gooder and Paul Murray, Anglican Communion News Service
12-10-2016	Ethics and education: Can classrooms cultivate virtuous citizens?	Laura D'Olimpio, ABC Religion and Ethics
10-10-2016	Churches aren't business and they still deserve a tax break	Natasha Moore, The Sydney Morning Herald
09-10-2016	Peace in Colombia heads into extra time	Antonio Castillo, Eureka Street
08-10-2016	When the Anglican Church can’t follow its own code	Elizabeth Farrelly, The Age
08-10-2016	Why cathedrals are soaring: The Church of England’s unexpected success story	Simon Jenkins, The Spectator (UK)
07-10-2016	The ever-shrinking case against same-sex marriage	Keith Mascord, ABC Religion and Ethics
07-10-2016	Same-sex marriage: It's about children's rights, not sexual orientation	Margaret Somerville, ABC Religion and Ethics
06-10-2016	With that ring, I thee judge: why the law should not allow exceptions on marriage equality	Cristy Clark, The Conversation
06-10-2016	Trump or Clinton: who will be the best for our region?	Mark Beeson, The Conversation
05-10-2016	Philanthropic foundations cost taxpayers – and so should be made accountable	Elizabeth Cham, The Conversation
04-10-2016	Identity politics and the market	Andrew Hamilton, Eureka Street
03-10-2016	‘Assisted dying’ – assisted suicide and/or euthanasia by any other name	Denise Cooper-Clarke, Ethos: Evangelical Alliance Centre for Christianity and Society
03-10-2016	Religion and the US election: Does faith matter anymore?	Tim Verhoeven, The Conversation
03-10-2016	Yes, some Australian private schools are overfunded – here’s why	Laura Perry and Emma Rowe, The Conversation
03-10-2016	Evil deeds, evil people? Musings and questions on evil and terror	Doug Hynd, Ethos: EA Centre for Christianity and Society
29-09-2016	Pray for Aleppo	Fred Hiltz, Anglican Communion News Service
14-09-2016	Why I was wrong about Christianity	Tom Holland, New Statesman (UK)
13-09-2016	Plebiscite looks set to fail, but the push for same-sex marriage will not	Dennis Altman, The Conversation
13-09-2016	Growing up with Baryulgil's asbestos genocide	Dani Larkin, Eureka Street
12-09-2016	What does ‘full inclusion’ mean?	Andrew Goddard, Fulcrum: Renewing the Evangelical Centre (UK)
12-09-2016	Why C of E schools must resist becoming more religious	Theo Hobson, The Spectator (UK)
12-09-2016	The Bishop of Grantham reveals the battle for the Anglican soul	Jack Slater, Varsity (University of Cambridge independent student paper, UK)
12-09-2016	The bad business of privatisation	David James, Eureka Street
12-09-2016	Are refugee and migrant diasporas the missing piece of the development puzzle?	Melissa Phillips, The Conversation
10-09-2016	How same-sex relationships pose a dilemma for all our churches	Alf McCreary, Belfast Telegraph (UK)
09-09-2016	Time out	Church Times (UK) editorial
09-09-2016	Why I am ‘praying for our Pacific’	Seforosa Carroll, Sight Magazine (Geelong)
08-09-2016	A symbolic solution to the marriage debate	Brian Lucas, Eureka Street
08-09-2016	The politics we deserve: Populism, Race and Democracy	Dr Tim Soutphommasane, ABC Religion and Ethics
08-09-2016	Australian churches off the pace on clean energy switch	Thea Ormerod, Eureka Street
08-09-2016	Ye Old News Subject of Anglican decline gets royal treatment from ‘The Economist’	Richard Ostling, Get Religion (US)/BBC video excerpt
07-09-2016	Valuing the lives of people with disability	Joan Hume, Eureka Street
06-09-2016	Does the Church have a Gen Next future?	Tom Sine, Ethos, Evangelical Alliance Centre for Christianity and Society
06-09-2016	Why is Christianity declining?	David Gushee, Religion News Service (US)
06-09-2016	Beyond conflict: Christianity and the sciences	Mick Pope, Ethos, EA Centre for Christianity and Society
06-09-2016	NT Royal Commission is the cost of failing to meet international standards on torture	Adam Fletcher, The Conversation
06-09-2016	Liberalism and the freedom to insult religion	Thomas Wells, ABC Religion and Ethics
05-09-2016	Anger in the face of despair in Kalgoorlie	Kate Galloway, Eureka Street
05-09-2016	Plebiscite the only way forward for Turnbull on marriage equality	Frank Brennan, Eureka Street
05-09-2016	The first openly gay bishop is a huge step forward – but it’s not enough	Vicky Beeching, The Guardian Australia video and text
05-09-2016	How my loathing of Mother Teresa turned to admiration	Mari Marcel Thekaekara, The Guardian Australia video and text
05-09-2016	Bishop says Sino-US ratification of Paris Agreement on climate ‘of immense importance’	Geoff Davies, Anglican Communion News Service
03-09-2016	‘Double standard’ in CofE on homosexuality is less defensible today	Andrew Brown, The Guardian Australia
02-09-2016	Church has a duty to be involved in euthanasia debate	Megan Best, On Line Opinion: Australia’s e-journal of social and political debate
02-09-2016	If technology makes humans into gods, old questions return	Giles Fraser, The Guardian Australia
01-09-2016	Life & Faith: Prostitution narratives	Simon Smart, Melinda Tankard Reist and Natasha Moore, Centre for Public Christianity audio
30-08-2016	‘Welcoming, but not affirming’: Being gay and Christian	Mark Jennings, The Conversation
29-08-2016	Can we live with legalised euthanasia? Andrew Denton's anti-democratic argument	Margaret Somerville, ABC Religion and Ethics
26-08-2016	The new normal? Pentecostalism overtakes Anglicanism in Sydney	Paul Oslington, ABC Religion and Ethics
24-08-2016	Religion in the Media: How has it changed, where is it going, why does it matter?	Barney Zwartz, ABC Religion and Ethics
23-08-2016	The world we choose to live in	Jim McDermott, Eureka Street
22-08-2016	Truth beyond written records of the Wave Hill walk-off	Moira Rayner, Eureka Street
22-08-2016	Where are the blessed Peacemakers?	Russell Rollason, Canberra and Goulburn Anglican Community
22-08-2016	After all these years, we are still afraid	Gary Walker, St Columban’s Mission Society
19-08-2016	The exodus of Fleet Street: Media ‘chaplain’ reflects on end of an era	Alison Joyce, Anglican Communion News Service
17-08-2016	The politics of love	Andrew Leigh, ABC Religion and Ethics
16-08-2016	A Newcastle Anglican diocese priest's response to an anti-Muslim protest is leading the way	The Newcastle Herald editorial
16-08-2016	Cast adrift: Australia risks its international standing over asylum-seeker policies	Leanne Smith, The Conversation
16-08-2016	Moving beyond idiocy in US election repartee	Andrew Hamilton, Eureka Street
14-08-2016	Humanity meets bureaucracy on asylum seeker Fast Track	Shira Sebban, Eureka Street
12-08-2016	Anglican diocese laid bare by investigation	The Newcastle Herald (NSW) editorial
12-08-2016	Reflections on the idea of a common humanity	Raimond Gaita, The Conversation
12-08-2016	Flickers of hope over the darkness of Nauru, but thunderbolts called for	Katharine Murphy, The Guardian Australia
12-08-2016	Secular France is no stranger to interfaith dialogue – now it is more vital than ever	Joseph Downing, The Conversation (UK)
11-08-2016	Without a model backed by Aboriginal communities, what are we actually ‘Recognising’?	Amy McQuire, New Matilda
11-08-2016	Market economics not the solution for human services	Roland Manderson, Eureka Street
11-08-2016	The Galileo gambit and other stories: the three main tactics of climate denial	Stephan Lewandowsky, The Conversation
10-08-2016	The Nauru files are raw evidence of torture. Can we look away?	David Marr, The Guardian Australia
10-08-2016	With a vote delayed, where does this leave constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians?	Paul Kildea, The Conversation
10-08-2016	Pokémon Go in a fractured and flattened world	Trevin Wax, The Gospel Coalition blog (US)
09-08-2016	Offshore detention was destined to fail and the collapse might be closer than you think	Rachel Ball and Daniel Webb, The Guardian Australia
09-08-2016	Census 2016: Why Australians are losing their religion	Malcolm Forbes, ABC Religion and Ethics
09-08-2016	Land of the ‘fair go’ no more: wealth in Australia is becoming more unequal	Christopher Sheil and Frank Stilwell, The Conversation
08-08-2016	For Gold and Country: Are the Olympic Games worth it?	Scott Stephens, Waleed Aly and Gideon Haigh, ABC Religion and Ethics
08-08-2016	Against popular will: Why plebiscites need not be binding	Joel Harrison, ABC Religion and Ethics
08-08-2016	Working with the UN for human rights	Rachael Fraser, ACNS
05-08-2016	Spare Mrs May all these imaginary childhoods	Hattie Williams, Church Times (UK)
28-07-2016	Crime and punishment: Can we yet transcend Retributivism?	Scott Stephens, Waleed Aly and Martha Nussbaum, ABC Religion and Ethics
27-07-2016	When terror goes viral, it’s up to us to prevent chaos	Brian McNair, The Conversation
26-07-2016	Don Dale abuse is a symptom of a sick justice culture	Julie Kimber, Eureka Street
26-07-2016	‘Piccaninnies’ and other expendables: What we’ve always done to Indigenous kids in Australia	Liz Conor, New Matilda
26-07-2016	Evidence of NT detention centre abuse was there for all to see	Michelle Grattan, The Conversation
26-07-2016	Trump vs Clinton: Americans' unpalatable choice	Justin Glyn, Eureka Street
25-07-2016	How long, O Lord, how long?	Pierre Whalon, Anglican Communion News Service
25-07-2016	Praying for the persecuted church	Patrick Burke, ACNS
24-07-2016	The changing face of the law across generations	Frank Brennan, Eureka Street
22-07-2016	What are the moral limits of free speech?	Scott Stephens, Waleed Aly and William Cavanaugh, ABC Religion and Ethics
22-07-2016	Australia once banned Catholics from Mass and vilified the Irish. Haven't we learned anything?	Nick Earls, The Guardian Australia
22-07-2016	Hunter people knew in their bones a royal commission was needed	The Newcastle Herald (NSW)
20-07-2016	I don’t believe in ‘no religion’	Michael Jensen, The Spectator Australia
20-07-2016	Theologising Brexit: Europe, sovereignty and nation	John Milbank, ABC Religion and Ethics
19-07-2016	The war on Christians is extending into Turkey	Alec Marsh, The Spectator (UK)
19-07-2016	So much sadness and tragedy in the world	Clare Condon, The Good Oil (Sisters of the Good Samaritan)
19-07-2016	The most troubling thing about Pauline Hanson's view of Muslims? The facts no longer matter	Susan Carland, The Guardian Australia
19-07-2016	Can religious vilification laws protect religious freedoms?	Rick Sarre, The Conversation
19-07-2016	After Nice, multiculturalism is finished	Jules Gomes, The Conservative Woman (UK)
15-07-2016	A new PM; an old ‘CT’	Church Times (UK) editorial
15-07-2016	Nice attack brings a difficult question into sharp focus: Why France?	Philomena Murray, The Conversation
14-07-2016	First as Pokemon, then as farce? The risks of the modern culture industry	Laura D'Olimpio, ABC Religion and Ethics
13-07-2016	If Britain’s Conservative Party’s doing God again, what sort of God is it?	Andrew Brown, The Guardian Australia
13-07-2016	Barack Obama, Lincolnesque theologian	Mark Silk, Religion News Service (US)
12-07-2016	Divided Island: Brexit, Religion and Culture	John Milbank, ABC Religion and Ethics
12-07-2016	How technology disrupted the truth	Katharine Viner, The Guardian (UK)
11-07-2016	Theresa May: unpredictable, moralistic, and heading to No.10	Gaby Hinsliff, The Guardian Australia
10-07-2016	The Church of England? We don't know what it is any more	Jane Shilling, The Telegraph (UK)
08-07-2016	Chilcot’s lessons	Church Times (UK) editorial
07-07-2016	Extreme Parliament: The moral challenge for Australian politics	Simon Longstaff, ABC Religion and Ethics
07-07-2016	Hanson supporters must accept the world has changed	Fatima Measham, Eureka Street
05-07-2016	Shrewsbury bishop mocked by fellow clergy for coming out as a Brexit bishop	Archbishop Cranmer blog (UK)
05-07-2016	The Theology of Donald Trump	Peter Wehner, The New York Times
03-07-2016	What matters after the election is decided	Andrew Hamilton, Eureka Street
03-07-2016	The Great War changed religion and society, but not enough	Erasmus: Religion and public policy blog, The Economist (UK)
02-07-2016	Guess who’s coming to Iftar?	Mark Durie, The Spectator Australia
01-07-2016	The huddled masses have never been in greater need. What will we do about it?	Tim Costello, The Guardian Australia
30-06-2016	Offshore detention: On not ‘getting used to it’	Simon Smart, ABC Religion and Ethics
30-06-2016	Election 2016: In praise of welfare waste	Gordon Menzies, ABC Religion and Ethics
30-06-2016	Bishops choke on Brexit humble pie	Jules Gomes, The Conservative Woman (UK)
29-06-2016	The fragility of goodness: Brexit viewed from England’s North-East	Anna Rowlands, ABC Religion and Ethics
29-06-2016	Archbishop Freier on Election 2016: Putting the economy in the service of the people	Philip Freier, ABC Religion and Ethics
28-06-2016	Youth are speaking, we're just not listening	Katie Miller and Caitlin Meyer, Eureka Street
28-06-2016	Where was the Church of England on Brexit?	Mark Silk, Religion News Service (US)
28-06-2016	Dr Freier: Affordable housing is a key election issue	Philip Freier, The Age
26-06-2016	After Brexit? The referendum and Its discontents	Scott Stephens and others, ABC Religion and Ethics
26-06-2016	Brexit as theodicy and idolatry	Luke Bretherton, ABC Religion and Ethics
24-06-2016	Church of England Bishop in Europe on EU vote: ‘Time for listening and healing’	Robert Innes, Anglican Communion News Service
24-06-2016	The aftermath	Church Times (UK) editorial
22-06-2016	What if the PM went to Manus Island?	Samuel Dariol, Eureka Street
22-06-2016	Leave Europe arguments betray cultural amnesia	Andrew Hamilton, Eureka Street
22-06-2016	Listening but not hearing: Process has trumped substance in Indigenous affairs	Megan Davis, The Conversation
21-06-2016	Why we need a plebiscite	Michael Stead, Sydney Anglicans
21-06-2016	It’s time to draw the line: Justice in the Timor Sea	Susan Connelly, The Good Oil (Sisters of the Good Samaritan)
21-06-2016	Are clergy and laity fundamentally different?	Ian Paul, Psephizo (UK)
20-06-2016	Is your super doing dirty work?	Thea Ormerod, Eureka Street
20-06-2016	Church of England aims to agree to disagree over homosexuality	Andrew Brown, The Guardian Australia
17-06-2016	The impact of Orlando	Church Times (UK) editorial
17-06-2016	Archbishop of Canterbury: It's time television treated religion seriously	Justin Welby, Radio Times (UK)
17-06-2016	The Qur’an, the Bible and homosexuality in Islam	Christopher van der Krogt, The Conversation
16-06-2016	Legal grey area hinders Aboriginal repatriation	Kate Galloway, Eureka Street
15-06-2016	The Orlando Tragedy: What Can be Said?	Michael Jensen, ABC Religion and Ethics
14-06-2016	Australian Christian Lobby: the rise and fall of the religious right	Geoffrey Robinson, The Conversation
10-06-2016	A tragic story: How racial division has held back the UK church	Andy Walton, Christian Today (UK)
10-06-2016	Cathedrals of light, cathedrals of ice, cathedrals of glass, cathedrals of bones	Naomi Stead, The Conversation
10-06-2016	Saved by God	Church Times (UK) editorial
09-06-2016	Naming the ‘invisible perpetrator’: a big step forward for media coverage of violence against women	Matthew Ricketson, The Conversation
09-06-2016	‘Character’ and ‘behaviour’ off the field should not be selection criteria for the Olympics	Michael Burke, The Conversation
09-06-2016	The moral conundrum of casting a vote on 2 July	Frank Brennan, Eureka Street
09-06-2016	Textbook Racism and the Office of President	Jim Wallis, Sojourners
08-06-2016	Democracy goes missing in action as politicians obfuscate, avoid and patronise	Jean Ker Walsh, The Conversation
08-06-2016	What lies beneath election campaign ethical silences	Andrew Hamilton, Eureka Street
03-06-2016	This referendum serves no one	Church Times (UK) editorial
03-06-2016	The Church's identity is naturally European	John Arnold, Church Times (UK)
03-06-2016	The EU at a crossroads	Frank Field, Church Times
02-06-2016	The price of conscience	Pamela Philips, Canberra and Goulburn Anglican Community
31-05-2016	Doing God in politics: Christianity in a time of secular liberalism	Michael Jensen, ABC Religion and Ethics
31-05-2016	God’s waiting room? Life needs to be valued in nursing homes	Joseph Ibrahim, The Conversation
31-05-2016	When it comes to building bridges, all power to a saint’s elbow	Austen Ivereigh, Crux (US)
31-05-2016	Why China fears Christianity	Cal Wong, The Diplomat (Japan)
30-05-2016	There's no shame in minority government	John Warhurst, Eureka Street
29-05-2016	Reflecting on justice for asylum seekers during an election campaign	Frank Brennan, Eureka Street
29-05-2016	Has anyone kept their faith in Christianity?	Barbara Ellen, The Observer/Guardian (UK)
28-05-2016	Response to letter in ‘The Age’ about voluntary euthanasia in Oregon	Denise Cooper-Clarke, Ethos (Evangelical Alliance Centre for Christianity and Society)
28-05-2016	British Christianity isn't dying. It's sleeping. Evangelism can awaken it	Tim Stanley, The Telegraph (UK) text, video and images
27-05-2016	I believe in God – and so do most Brits, whatever the latest surveys tell you	Janet Street-Porter, The Independent (UK)
27-05-2016	The world is getting more religious because the poor go for God	Giles Fraser, The Guardian Australia
26-05-2016	Psychology of a paedophile: Why are some people attracted to children?	Xanthe Mallett, The Conversation
26-05-2016	We need a grassroots revival to save the Great Barrier Reef	Jeff Sparrow, Eureka Street
25-05-2016	SA Premier co-opts democracy for nuclear nefariousness	Michele Madigan, Eureka Street
24-05-2016	Banking royal commission is popular, not populist	Andrew Hamilton, Eureka Street
24-05-2016	Resetting the political moral compass on climate change	Thea Ormerod, ABC Religion and Ethics
24-05-2016	Why St Thomas Becket’s elbow still matters in the 21st century	Naomi Howell, The Conversation
23-05-2016	Can we love our enemies in a godless world?	John Dickson, ABC ‘The Drum’
23-05-2016	Good leaders need the confidence to listen	Esther Anatolitis, Eureka Street
23-05-2016	Christianity must exorcise itself of homophobia	Benjamin Jones, ABC Religion and Ethics
22-05-2016	Living a Christian ethic while rejecting religion not possible	Barney Zwartz, The Sunday Age
22-05-2016	A righteous sermon about the haves and have-nots	Gillian Bouras, Eureka Street
20-05-2016	Palliative care should be embraced, not feared	Ian Maddocks, The Conversation
20-05-2016	Here’s what people in their 90s really think about death	Jane Fleming, The Conversation
19-05-2016	Catholic bishops speak out – but is anyone listening?	Muriel Porter, The Conversation
18-05-2016	Catholic bishops deliver election year ethical wedge	Andrew Hamilton, Eureka Street
18-05-2016	Everything dies and it’s best we learn to live with that	James Kirby, The Conversation
17-05-2016	De-identifying asylum seekers isn’t always about protection	Sarah Puls, The Good Oil (Sisters of the Good Samaritan)
17-05-2016	Organised religion must join the fight against homophobia	Andrew Fagan and Alan Msosa, The Conversation (UK)
17-05-2016	Recognition or treaty... Why not both?	Kate Galloway, Eureka Street
17-05-2016	Chilling and killing Duncan Storrar's free speech	Justin Glyn, Eureka Street
16-05-2016	New Canadian and US laws revive euthanasia debate	Frank Brennan, Eureka Street
15-05-2016	Pope Francis' social activism has long roots	Bruce Duncan, Eureka Street
13-05-2016	God’s will be done	Church Times (UK) editorial
12-05-2016	Reconciling with President-elect Duterte	Fatima Measham, Eureka Street
12-05-2016	New Zealand’s indigenous reconciliation efforts show having a treaty isn’t enough	Malcolm Mulholland, The Conversation
11-05-2016	What kind of society does this budget enable?	Andrew Hamilton, Eureka Street
10-05-2016	Theology and Philosophy: Can they survive in the modern university?	John Haldane, ABC Religion and Ethics
10-05-2016	Women deacons the solution to priestly power problem in Roman Catholic Church	Phyllis Zagano, Eureka Street
08-05-2016	Questions for sub happy Australia	JUSTIN GLYN, EUREKA STREET
08-05-2016	A reply from a refugee advocate to Peter Dutton about self-harm	Di Cousens, Eureka Street
06-05-2016	Anti-Semitism, again	Church Times (UK) editorial
06-05-2016	Putting an end to the dark ages	Marites N Sison, Anglican Journal (Canada)
05-05-2016	How Daniel Berrigan Helped Save My Faith	Jim Wallis, Sojourners
04-05-2016	Another Coalition budget for the well-off	Marcelle Mogg, Eureka Street
03-05-2016	Doers of good: Sydney vote to merge agencies will strengthen presence of Christ’s love in word and deed	Glenn Davies, Sydney Anglicans
02-05-2016	Dumped-on Elders down but not despairing	Michele Madigan, Eureka Street
02-05-2016	Evangelicals must confront the ethical dilemma of partisanship	Jacob Lupfer, Religion News Service (US)
02-05-2016	Displaced persons in Kachin State	Alan Nichols, Towards Democracy in Myanmar/Burma blog
02-05-2016	Padded edges and the Commonwealth of Heaven	Jill Segger, Ekklesia (UK)
01-05-2016	The difference between a Sky Daddy and Our Father in Heaven	David Mansfield, Sydney Anglicans
01-05-2016	Legislating for human dignity without being misty-eyed	Kate Galloway, Eureka Street
30-04-2016	The social cost of religious freedom	Chris Fotinopoulos, The Age
29-04-2016	Six things I have learned about anti-semitism and the Church	Kelvin Holdsworth, What's in Kelvin's Head? blog
29-04-2016	Despite the murals, Belfast is not Bethlehem with rain	Giles Fraser, The Guardian (UK)
28-04-2016	I'm ready to evangelise... about climate change	Jayce Hafner, Sojourners (US)
28-04-2016	The Hillsborough verdicts	Nick Baines, Anglican Communion News Service
28-04-2016	Paying for stopping the boats	Kerry Murphy, Eureka Street
27-04-2016	Cheque book solution on asylum is unconstitutional	Frank Brennan, Eureka Street
27-04-2016	PNG court decision forces Australia to act on Manus Island detainees	Madeline Gleeson, The Conversation
26-04-2016	No moral mystery to ‘60 Minutes’ child snatch disaster	Ray Cassin, Eureka Street
26-04-2016	Domestic violence is more than an attitude problem	Kristin Natalier, Eureka Street
26-04-2016	The end of Just War: Why Christian realism requires non-violence	Stanley Hauerwas, ABC Religion and Ethics
25-04-2016	ACC-16 – A full-time report: Hope triumphs	Bishop Stephen Cottrell blog
25-04-2016	‘Fear not’ for the CofE	Andrew Lightbown, Theoreo blog
24-04-2016	Anzac Day: More than civil religion	Ian Lambert, Defence Anglicans
24-04-2016	Anzac Day and Just War scepticism go together	Andrew Hamilton, Eureka Street
23-04-2016	When does free speech become hate speech?	Julia Baird, The Age
23-04-2016	An Anzac Day Meditation	Bill Salier, Sydney Anglicans
22-04-2016	Between a rock and a hard place: Negotiating religious voices in public places	Kieran Bohan, Modern Church: Liberal Faith in a Changing World
22-04-2016	Separating fact from fiction about euthanasia in Belgium	Kenneth Chambaere, The Conversation
22-04-2016	How does unethical conduct get normalised in banking?	Milind Sathye, ABC Religion and Ethics
22-04-2016	Indigenous innovation could save a billion tonnes of greenhouse gases	Sam Johnston, The Conversation
21-04-2016	Anzac Day and the enduring hope of Christianity	Simon Smart, Centre for Public Christianity video and text
21-04-2016	The same-sex marriage post that Facebook deleted	John Dickson, ABC ‘The Drum’
21-04-2016	Climate justice and its role in the Paris Agreement	Anika Molesworth, The Conversation
20-04-2016	In remembering Anzac Day, what do we forget?	Danielle Drozdzewski and Emma Waterton, The Conversation
20-04-2016	Same-sex marriage and political pressure points	John Warhurst, The Age
19-04-2016	Releasing political prisoners: The first major hurdle for Myanmar’s new Government	Alan Nichols, Towards Democracy in Myanmar/Burma blog
19-04-2016	How are we investing in the next generation?	Clare Condon, The Good Oil (Sisters of The Good Samaritan)
19-04-2016	Sniff the rot in Australia's wobbly democracy	Justin Glyn, Eureka Street
19-04-2016	Do protest marches help any more?	Natalie Lindner L’Huillier, The Good Oil
18-04-2016	Crossing boundaries with the wire-cutter Pope	Andrew Hamilton, Eureka Street
18-04-2016	Can banks regain public trust? The Banking + Finance Oath is where to begin	Dennis Gentilin and Simon Longstaff, ABC Religion and Ethics
17-04-2016	Serfs sucked dry in the kingdom of banks	David James, Eureka Street
15-04-2016	Messy Church	Church Times (UK) editorial
15-04-2016	Back to the Basics – Will you stand with us?	Peter Jensen, Anglican Ink (US)
15-04-2016	Robust approach to fossil fuels required	Darrell Hannah, Church Times (UK)
15-04-2016	The confidence of Theology: Frontiers of Christianity in Britain today	Catherine Pickstock, ABC Religion and Ethics
14-04-2016	How ‘tough on crime’ politics flouts death-in-custody recommendations	Chris Cunneen, The Conversation
14-04-2016	Patrick Dodson's Senate mandate	Frank Brennan, Eureka Street
14-04-2016	‘Crossing to the other side’ – A Lusaka Sabbath	Thabo Makgoba blog
14-04-2016	Ideas for Australia: Rethinking funding and priorities in IVF – should the state pay for people to have babies?	Julian Savulescu and Kelton Tremellen, The Conversation
13-04-2016	Deaths in custody: 25 years after the royal commission, we’ve gone backwards	Thalia Anthony, The Conversation
13-04-2016	The marriage debate is not about autonomy or equality	Jeremy Bell, The Age
13-04-2016	Justin Welby could teach David Cameron a thing or two about PR	Charles Moore, The Spectator (UK)
12-04-2016	ACC-16 – A half-time report by the Bishop of Chelmsford, England	Stephen Cottrell blog
11-04-2016	Justin Welby is reinventing how to be a church leader in a sceptical world	Archie Bland, The Guardian Australia
11-04-2016	The 1% hide their money offshore – then use it to corrupt our democracy	Aditya Chakrabortty, The Guardian Australia
11-04-2016	Is a church without a disabled person a disabled church?	Archbishop Cranmer blog (UK)
11-04-2016	The English question	David Marquand, New Statesman (UK)
10-04-2016	Don't fall for Humpty Dumpty politics	Justin Glyn, Eureka Street
10-04-2016	Why the Archbishop is unruffled by a less than immaculate conception	Adam Lusher, Sunday Independent (Dublin)
10-04-2016	David Cameron and money	Bernadette Meaden, Ekklesia (UK)
09-04-2016	Justin Welby absorbs paternity news with characteristic calm	Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian Australia
09-04-2016	Autocratic Anglican archbishops face challenge	Savi Hensman, Ekklesia (UK)
09-04-2016	The 18th-Century Enlightenment and the Problem of Public Misery	John Keane, The Conversation
08-04-2016	Lawrence of Arabia wouldn’t have been surprised by the rise of ISIS	Giles Fraser, The Guardian Australia
08-04-2016	Justin Welby's personal story of courage is better than a thousand sermons	The Daily Telegraph (UK) editorial
07-04-2016	If royal commissions worked, children and families would be safe by now	Carolyn Curtis, The Guardian Australia
07-04-2016	Bob Ellis and the other nuclear royal commission	Michele Madigan, Eureka Street
06-04-2016	Hopes and expectations now that democracy has come to Myanmar	Alan Nichols, Towards Democracy in Myanmar/Burma blog
06-04-2016	Companies' bastardry about more than bad apples	Andrew Hamilton, Eureka Street
05-04-2016	A pin and a prayer	Fred Hiltz, Anglican Journal (Canada)
04-04-2016	The slaughter of the Christians	Jonathan Sacks, The Age/The Daily Telegraph (UK) video, text and images
04-04-2016	To realise King’s dream, we must reject Trump’s divisive rhetoric	Jennifer Butler, Religion News Service (US)
02-04-2016	Sacred Mysteries: The ring that Rome gave to Canterbury	Christopher Howse, The Daily Telegraph (UK)
02-04-2016	Why we should welcome a Jesuit in an Anglican pulpit	Alf McCreary, Belfast Telegraph (Northern Ireland)
01-04-2016	The resurrection isn’t an argument. It’s the Christian word for defiance	Giles Fraser, The Guardian Australia
01-04-2016	Bishop makes healing journey	Times Colonist (British Columbia, Canada) editorial
31-03-2016	System must work for victims, not against them	Fatima Measham, Eureka Street
30-03-2016	Royal Commission calls for complete overhaul of Victoria’s family violence services and responses	Kate Fitz-Gibbon, The Conversation
30-03-2016	The value of protest lies in ritual not results	Andrew Hamilton, Eureka Street
30-03-2016	History repeats: 20 years of political homophobia from the religious right	Brian Greig, The Guardian Australia
30-03-2016	Why it makes sense (for Christians) to give up the election committee seats	S.C. Yeung, Hong Kong Economic Journal
29-03-2016	Family violence needs whole community response	Julie Edwards, Eureka Street
29-03-2016	Jailing fine defaulters punishes poverty	Kate Galloway, Eureka Street
29-03-2016	The bleeding obvious about homelessness	John Falzon, Eureka Street
28-03-2016	The Lahore attacks are just the latest atrocity in a war on Christians	John L. Allen Jr, The Spectator (UK)
28-03-2016	David Cameron's shallow, clichéd Easter message shows why politicians really shouldn't do God	Tom Harris, The Daily Telegraph (UK) text and video
26-03-2016	Fix the Easter date? No, I like that we have to ask, ‘When is it?’	Nikki Gemmell, The Weekend Australian
25-03-2016	This Easter, churches will be praying for a rebirth	Muriel Porter, The Conversation
24-03-2016	How do you stop terrorism?	Phil Groves, Anglican Communion News Service
24-03-2016	The Duel: Should the Church of England be disestablished?	Linda Woodhead and Lucy Winkett, Prospect: The Leading Magazine of Ideas (UK)
24-03-2016	The Church of England needs to create better headlines for itself	Theo Hobson, The Spectator (UK)
24-03-2016	The bitter fruits of alienation: Belgium’s struggle is the problem of our age	Martin Conway, The Conversation
23-03-2016	Sensitivity and multivalence: The call to religious literacy	Benedict Coleridge, ABC Religion and Ethics
23-03-2016	University of Sydney's Evangelical Union shouldn't have to give up its faith in fight against discrimination	Andrew Judd, The Sydney Morning Herald
23-03-2016	Elusive Easter's challenge to wider society	Andrew Hamilton, Eureka Street
22-03-2016	State of the Union: Universities are no longer safe spaces for ideas	Michael Jensen, ABC Religion and Ethics
22-03-2016	Safe Schools battle part of an all-out culture war over divisive queer theory	Laura McNally, The Age
22-03-2016	Furore over Safe Schools program exacerbates harm to young people	Minto Felix, The Age
21-03-2016	Change is possible when democracy runs deep	Moira Rayner, Eureka Street
21-03-2016	Fear and loathing reigns in Safe Schools and same-sex marriage debates	Dennis Altman, The Conversation
20-03-2016	Deja vu for Timor as Turnbull neglects boundary talks	Frank Brennan, Eureka Street
19-03-2016	Christianity isn’t dead – it has just become more diverse	Aaqil Ahmed, The Independent (UK)
18-03-2016	A 10-year-old girl kills herself, and a nation asks: What can be done?	Patricia Dudgeon and Tom Calma, The Guardian Australia
18-03-2016	Actually, most Evangelicals don’t vote Trump	Darren Patrick Guerra, Christianity Today (US)
17-03-2016	Good reading of the Good Book	Peter Jensen, Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON)
17-03-2016	Is the future of leadership lay or ordained?	Ian Paul, Psephizo: Scholarship, serving, ministry (UK)
17-03-2016	How ‘damning’ is the report into the Church of England’s handling of sex abuse?	Theo Hobson, The Spectator (UK)
16-03-2016	‘Jilted’ Brownless saga shows AFL sexism still runs deep	Tim Kroenert, Eureka Street
16-03-2016	Comfort from God in infertility and pregnancy loss	Anna Boxwell, Canberra and Goulburn Anglican Community
16-03-2016	Why R&R is good for the health of the Church	Simon Butler, Via Media: Rediscovering the Middle Ground (UK)
15-03-2016	Suu Kyi’s nomination finally elected	Alan Nichols, Towards Democracy in Myanmar/Burma blog
15-03-2016	CommInsure exposé proves spin doesn't always win	David James, Eureka Street text/ABC ‘Four Corners’ video
14-03-2016	Vacuous politics breeds vacuous politicians	Justin Glyn, Eureka Street
14-03-2016	Is the Archbishop of Canterbury right to say it is not racist to oppose immigration?	Simon Goodman, The Independent (UK)
13-03-2016	Are we ready to face death without religion?	Adam Lee, The Guardian Australia
13-03-2016	Divine light shines as we lead by example	Roland Ashby, The Sunday Age
12-03-2016	Give fear a chance, says Anglicanism’s top cleric	Erasmus: Religion and public policy, The Economist (UK)
11-03-2016	At Last, a President	Alan Nichols, Towards Democracy in Myanmar/Burma blog
11-03-2016	When did all the comedians become sanctimonious televangelists?	Michael Jensen, ABC ‘The Drum’
11-03-2016	Despite positive steps, Australia still needs to do more to end forced marriage	Jennifer Burn, The Conversation
10-03-2016	To go forward, we must go back	Peter Jensen, Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON)
10-03-2016	A civilised approach to prostitution: Re-reading John Stuart Mill	Helen Pringle, ABC Religion and Ethics
09-03-2016	Can ethics survive in the world of banking and finance? Lessons from CommInsure	Simon Longstaff, ABC Religion and Ethics
09-03-2016	Cultures of accountability for clergy and celebrities	Andrew Hamilton, Eureka Street
08-03-2016	Why the Church should be more agnostic	Anna Drew, Christian Today (UK)
07-03-2016	Going back to school on gender-based violence	Ellen Poyner, Eureka Street
06-03-2016	Abuse survivor reflects on Cardinal Pell's ‘sad story’	Paul Coghlan, Eureka Street
04-03-2016	Equal before the Law: Cardinal Pell and the presumption of innocence	Simon Longstaff, ABC Religion and Ethics
03-03-2016	Cardinal Pell, Safe Schools and the personhood of children	Moira Rayner, Eureka Street
03-03-2016	Practices such as ‘no-platforming’ threaten to strangle the roots of freedom	John Haldane, The Guardian Australia
03-03-2016	Out of the ashes of Afghanistan and Iraq: the rise and rise of Islamic State	Greg Barton, The Conversation
02-03-2016	The stories of the broken men of Ballarat have unleashed compassion on a national scale	Brigid Delaney, The Guardian Australia
02-03-2016	Diagnosing the great Australian sickness	Andrew Hamilton, Eureka Street
02-03-2016	Denying the Imago Dei: The triumph of Donald Trump	Ian Markham, Episcopal Café (US)
02-03-2016	How the political crises of the modern Muslim world created the climate for Islamic State	Harith Bin Ramli, The Conversation
02-03-2016	Rediscovering ‘Good Disagreement’	David Walker, Via Media (UK)
01-03-2016	To believe or not to believe: child witnesses and the sex abuse royal commission	Robyn Blewer, The Conversation
29-02-2016	Both science and theology make sense – they just do it differently	Joel Hodge, ABC Religion and Ethics
28-02-2016	Whoever could be President?	Alan Nichols, Towards Democracy in Myanmar/Burma blog
26-02-2016	Safe Schools Coalition: what is the Christian Right afraid of?	Timothy W. Jones, The Conversation
25-02-2016	Vindication for victims of predator	The Advertiser editorial (Adelaide)
25-02-2016	Is the Australian Anglican Church in the throes of schism?	David W. Virtue, Virtue Online: The Voice for Global Orthodox Anglicanism
24-02-2016	Liberation theology in modern Australia	Andrew Hamilton, Eureka Street
24-02-2016	Good and bad news about the Syria ceasefire	Justin Glyn, Eureka Street video and text
24-02-2016	Safe Schools program: why zealots are trying to drag us back to the dark ages	Jill Stark, The Age video and text
23-02-2016	Child sexual abuse: are churches covering up or opening up?	John McMillan, The Sydney Morning Herald video and text
23-02-2016	The baby Asha problem in Australia's refugee policy	Binoy Kampmark, Eureka Street
23-02-2016	Baby Asha and the pyramid of suffering	Kate Galloway, Eureka Street
23-02-2016	Mormons, Anglicans and why global churches struggle over LGBT rights	Max Perry Mueller, Religion & Politics: Fit for polite company (US)
23-02-2016	Did the Crusades lead to Islamic State?	Carole Cusack, The Conversation
22-02-2016	An unholy mess	Frank Brennan, Eureka Street
22-02-2016	Shedding light on elder abuse	Gillian Bouras, Eureka Street
22-02-2016	Why Donald Trump’s glitzy style is attracting evangelical voters	Sarah Posner, The Washington Post (US)
21-02-2016	Transition to democracy for those outside Myanmar	Alan Nichols, Towards Democracy in Myanmar/Burma blog
21-02-2016	Ending family violence in culturally diverse Australia	Jasmeet Sahi, Eureka Street
19-02-2016	Creation: an act of love	Jacob Sherman, Church Times (UK)
19-02-2016	Why is Islam so different in different countries?	Aaron W. Hughes, The Conversation
18-02-2016	Well schooled!	Glenn Davies, Sydney Anglicans
18-02-2016	If Islamic State is based on religion, why is it so violent?	Aaron W. Hughes, The Conversation
17-02-2016	When it's right to break the law	Andrew Hamilton, Eureka Street
17-02-2016	Who would Jesus vote for? Maybe Bernie	Stephen Prothero, USA Today/Religion News Service (US)
17-02-2016	Scottish Episcopal Church distress over Columba Declaration	Kelvin Holdsworth, What’s in Kelvin’s Head? blog text and BBC Scotland audio
16-02-2016	Understanding Islamic State: where does it come from and what does it want?	James L. Gelvin, The Conversation
16-02-2016	Men must stand with women to end family violence	Donella Johnston, Eureka Street
16-02-2016	The marriage plebiscite: No ‘time out’ on anti-discrimination laws	Patrick Stokes, The Conversation
16-02-2016	To work for police is to stare into the abyss	Paul Coghlan, Eureka Street
16-02-2016	Islamic State lays claim to Muslim theological tradition and turns it on its head	Harith Bin Ramli, The Conversation
15-02-2016	Praying for Richard Dawkins	Arun Arora, Anglican Communion News Service
15-02-2016	Euphemising euthanasia	Margaret Somerville with Simon Smart, Centre for Public Christianity videos
15-02-2016	Don't be disheartened by dismal Close the Gap reports	Myrna Tonkinson, Eureka Street
15-02-2016	Justice Scalia’s terrible religious legacy	Mark Silk, Religion News Service (US)
14-02-2016	Rise in Buddhist activist groups in Myanmar	Alan Nichols, Towards Democracy in Myanmar/Burma blog
13-02-2016	The late US Supreme Court Justice Scalia’s legacy on religion: A look at the last year of his life	Tobin Grant, Religion News Service (US)
12-02-2016	Lent: Fasting… and carbon fasting	Gillian King, Canberra and Goulburn Anglican Community
11-02-2016	#LetThemStay reveals the political capital of compassion	Somayra Ismailjee, Eureka Street
10-02-2016	Gospel brutality reborn in our harrowing of refugee children	Andrew Hamilton, Eureka Street
10-02-2016	Is sanctuary the way to go?	Maurizio Pettenà, Australian Catholic Bishops Conference media blog
10-02-2016	Criticised for rejecting same-sex marriage, but is the Anglican Church actually helping gay rights?	Adriaan van Klinken, The Conversation (UK)
09-02-2016	Places of refuge: What is the legal basis for the churches' offer of 'sanctuary'?	Neil Foster, ABC Religion and Ethics
09-02-2016	Churches would break the law if they gave sanctuary to asylum seekers – but does it matter?	Penny Crofts and Jason Prior, The Conversation
09-02-2016	Nuclear waste danger knows no state borders	Michele Madigan, Eureka Street
08-02-2016	The world holds its breath as Myanmar’s presidential nominees are known	Alan Nichols, Towards Democracy in Myanmar/Burma blog
07-02-2016	Offers of sanctuary brighten Australia's refugee dark age	Justin Glyn, Eureka Street
07-02-2016	Electing a president in an age of superheroes	Jim McDermott, Eureka Street
06-02-2016	Sunday Reflection: From deadly superficiality to selective moral detachment	Rod Bower, Anglican Parish of Gosford (NSW) video
05-02-2016	Sanctuary for asylum seekers is an offer with ancient pedigree	Sean Winter, The Conversation
05-02-2016	Who – or what – is being saved?	V.R. Marianne Zahn, The Huffington Post (US)
05-02-2016	Point: God’s love will triumph	Lauren R. Stanley, Inside Sources (US)
05-02-2016	Counterpoint: Curing American myopia	Christopher Wells, Inside Sources (US)
04-02-2016	No retrospective fix for traumatised refugees	Kerry Murphy, Eureka Street
03-02-2016	High Court not the answer to Nauru depravity	Frank Brennan, Eureka Street
03-02-2016	End of an illusion: Recent film puts a spotlight on unthinkable evil	Neil Ormerod, ABC Religion and Ethics
03-02-2016	‘Spotlight’s’ revealing story of child abuse in my home town – and maybe yours	Kathleen McPhillips, The Conversation video and text
02-02-2016	Should the polluter pay? Historical responsibility, reparative justice and climate change	Janna Thompson, ABC Religion and Ethics
02-02-2016	There's no cheap path to harmony	Andrew Hamilton, Eureka Street
01-02-2016	Can the Church of England 'agree to disagree' on sexuality without becoming theologically incoherent?	Ian Paul, ABC Religion and Ethics
01-02-2016	Should Episcopalians repent?	Ross Kane, The Christian Century (US)
31-01-2016	How will civil society organisations fare in the new democracy?	Alan Nichols, Towards Democracy in Myanmar/Burma blog
31-01-2016	Australian of the Year's strong case for empathy	Justin Glyn, Eureka Street
29-01-2016	Flat wrong: the misunderstood history of flat Earth theories	Chris Fleming, The Conversation
28-01-2016	Why Adolf Eichmann’s final message remains so profoundly unsettling	Giles Fraser, The Guardian Australia
27-01-2016	Friendlier ghosts of Australia Day’s future	Andrew Hamilton, Eureka Street
27-01-2016	The ethical city: an idea whose time has come	Brendan Barrett, The Conversation
26-01-2016	Has the Episcopal Church been plutoed?	Charles Hefling, The Christian Century (US)
26-01-2016	Unexpected blessing	David Moxon, ACNS
25-01-2016	Our unfinished business with the First Nations	Brian McCoy, Eureka Street
25-01-2016	Redeeming Australia Day: How Aboriginal Christians are challenging Australian spiritually	Tanya Riches, ABC Religion and Ethics
24-01-2016	Myanmar’s new Parliament to meet in first major step in transition from military dictatorship to democracy	Alan Nichols, Towards Democracy in Myanmar/Burma blog
24-01-2016	Mixed loyalties don't negate Australianness	Irfan Yusuf, Eureka Street
24-01-2016	Among global Orthodox leaders, Ukraine is a bone of contention	‘Erasmus’ (Religion and Public Policy), The Economist (UK)
22-01-2016	The Primates and Public Relations	Ian Paul, Psephizo: Scholarship. Serving. Ministry.
22-01-2016	Why the Anglican-Episcopal clash may spell a theological revision	Jacob Lupfer, Religion News Service (US)
22-01-2016	The Anglican Communion’s un-Christian stance on marriage	Colbert I. King, The Washington Post (US)
21-01-2016	Scripture, Sin and Same-Sex Relationships after the gathering of Anglican Primates	Angus Ritchie, ABC Religion and Ethics
21-01-2016	Whose Australia Day?	Fatima Measham, Eureka Street
21-01-2016	Does an understanding of Britain’s cultural debt to Christianity develop with age?	Theo Hobson, The Spectator (UK)
20-01-2016	Refugee crisis demands and defies sustained reflection	Andrew Hamilton, Eureka Street
20-01-2016	Ain't it awful 'bout dem Anglicans?	Pierre Whalon, Bishop of the Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe, The Huffington Post Australia
20-01-2016	A truly liberal society would tolerate the Anglican Church’s views on sexuality	James Mumford, The Spectator (UK)
20-01-2016	No religion is the new religion	Andrew Brown, The Guardian Australia
20-01-2016	Banishing the beasts: The slick misogyny of US pick-up artists not welcome here	Melinda Tankard Reist, ABC Religion and Ethics
20-01-2016	Racist Oscars need to lift their game	Tim Kroenert, Eureka Street
19-01-2016	The real consequences of the Anglican Primates' censure of the Episcopal Church	Marie Alford-Harkey, The Huffington Post Australia
19-01-2016	Anglican division provides a stark warning to Catholics who want decentralisation – a Roman Catholic view	Alexander Lucie-Smith, Catholic Herald (UK)
19-01-2016	Children without a language	Sarah Klenbort, Eureka Street
19-01-2016	Preppies' hope cuts through the terror of terrorism	Paul Mitchell, Eureka Street
19-01-2016	The Archbishops in secret	Bill Countryman, Bill Countryman Talks About . . . blog
18-01-2016	All are one in Christ, says Scottish bishop	Mark Strange, United Diocese of Moray, Ross and Caithness, Scottish Episcopal Church
18-01-2016	Reaffirming Communion: An Act of Hope	Ephraim Radner, First Things (US)
18-01-2016	The selective outrage of the Anglican Church	Jonathan Merritt, The Atlantic (US)
18-01-2016	Could feminists save the Anglican Church?	Sharon Jagger, The Conversation (UK)
18-01-2016	Consequences loom for global debt binge	David James, Eureka Street
17-01-2016	Refugee anxiety about Myanmar	Alan Nichols, Towards Democracy in Myanmar/Burma blog
17-01-2016	Australia's bridge-building role in Saudi-Iran dispute	Justin Glyn, Eureka Street
17-01-2016	Church attendances are in decline as people fill the void with outpourings of grief	Joan Smith, The Independent (UK)
16-01-2016	Archbishop Freier: Building an economy that works for the common good	Philip Freier, The Age
16-01-2016	Anglican leaders further marginalise gay people – and Church of England	Giles Fraser, The Guardian Australia
16-01-2016	Anglican Primates pronounce, but the Holy Spirit prevails	Adrian Hilton, Archbishop Cranmer blog: God and Politics; Christianity and Conservatism
16-01-2016	Blaming the Africans: Cultural imperialism and the meeting of the Primates	Esau McCaulley, The Living Church
15-01-2016	Preserve freedoms in marriage debate	Robin Speed, Sydney Anglicans
15-01-2016	The sacrificial grace of Bishop Michael Curry of The Episcopal Church	Ruth Gledhill, Christian Today (UK)
15-01-2016	Equal marriage is the next stage in the church’s continual reformation	Giles Fraser, The Guardian Australia
14-01-2016	Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali on the real issue at the Canterbury Primates’ gathering	GAFCON/BBC audio
14-01-2016	Twenty things the Church of England has done for us	Peter Ormerod, The Guardian (UK)
13-01-2016	Primate row over sexuality could split the Anglican Church	Anderson Jeremiah, The Conversation (UK)
12-01-2016	The schism in the Anglican Church might be a good thing	Sally Hitchiner, The Daily Telegraph (UK)
12-01-2016	Stonewall CEO: A split in the Anglican Church could be dangerous for LGBT people – religious or not	Ruth Hunt, The Daily Telegraph (UK)
12-01-2016	Church attendance drops below a million for the first time – and the real situation could be even worse	Isabel Hardman, The Spectator (UK)
11-01-2016	The visit of Egypt’s President Sisi to a Christmas service: A significant message	Mouneer Hanna Anis, Anglican Communion News Service
10-01-2016	Next four months will test whether democracy will work in Myanmar	Alan Nichols, Towards Democracy in Myanmar/Burma blog
10-01-2016	The Anglican Communion is a precious gift and a rich reality	Rachel Carnegie, Primates 2016 website
09-01-2016	The choices that face our archbishops in Canterbury	Gavin Ashenden, Anglican Ink (US)
09-01-2016	Rowing, not rowing: The Archbishop of Canterbury tries to save the Anglican Communion	The Economist editorial (UK)
09-01-2016	Anglican schism over sexuality marks the end of a global church	Andrew Brown, The Guardian Australia
09-01-2016	Big foreign datelines: London (think Canterbury) next week, Moscow long-term…	Richard Ostling, Get Religion (US)
08-01-2016	Advice to Primates: Try deep consultation, not rushed decisions	Mark Chapman, Church Times (UK)
08-01-2016	Sexuality and the Citizenship of Heaven	Martyn Percy, Modern Church: Liberal faith in a changing world (UK)
07-01-2016	Canterbury must fall?	Vinay Samuel and Chris Sugden, Church of England Newspaper (UK)
07-01-2016	Why black clergy ought not oppose same-sex marriage	Gilbert H Caldwell, Religion News Service (US)
06-01-2016	Canterbury Primates’ meeting: Issues to think about and pray about	Andrew Symes, Anglican Mainstream/Church of England Newspaper
05-01-2016	No, Chris Gayle, we won't ‘move on’ from your nationally televised sexism	Melinda Tankard Reist, ABC Religion and Ethics
05-01-2016	Families shouldn’t be allowed to veto organ donation	William Isdale and Julian Savulescu, The Conversation
04-01-2016	The Primates' dilemma: Game theory and the Anglican Communion	Christopher Craig Brittain, ABC Religion and Ethics
04-01-2016	Unity in diversity	Helen-Ann Hartley, Anglican Communion News Service
01-01-2016	How science undermines religion	Russell Blackford, The Conversation
01-01-2016	Why GAFCON truly matters	Peter Jensen, Global Anglican Future Conference website
01-01-2016	On not predicting the future	Jonathan Sacks, on Archbishop of Perth’s website
01-01-2016	New Year 2016	Nick Baines blog: Musings of a restless bishop (UK)
01-01-2016	The Church, the police and the unholy destruction of Bishop Bell	Charles Moore, The Daily Telegraph (UK)
01-01-2016	Karl Barth taught us not to use religion to mask the stench of war	Giles Fraser, The Guardian (UK)
31-12-2015	What changed us in 2015: the twin themes of terrorism and Christian freedom	John Sandeman, Bible Society Australia
30-12-2015	Five traits of an ethical leader	David Tuffley and Amy Antonio, The Conversation
29-12-2015	If Britain’s Education Secretary wants Christianity to flourish, humanism should be taught in schools	Andrew Brown, The Guardian (UK)
27-12-2015	Minister for Islamic Apologetics	Mark Durie, Quadrant Online
27-12-2015	Open Letter to President Obama about Christmas Bells in the Middle East	Mark Durie, Middle East Forum: Promoting American Interests (US)
24-12-2015	Avoid the 'Exmas Rush' and find the peace that passes all understanding	Michael Jensen, ABC ‘The Drum’
24-12-2015	I'm dreaming of a black Christmas – the only real Christmas I have known	Stan Grant, The Guardian Australia
24-12-2015	How to unwrap Christmas and Santa for the little atheists in your life	Peter Ellerton, The Conversation
23-12-2015	One God for Christians, Muslims and Jews?	Noah Feldman, the Australian Financial Review/Washington Post
23-12-2015	Under the guiding stars of struggle and hope, we can have a truly inclusive ideas boom	John Falzon, The Guardian Australia
23-12-2015	Harshness of the first Christmas story a good fit for our troubled times	Justine Toh, The Canberra Times
23-12-2015	In defence of the nativity play	Natasha Moore, ABC ‘The Drum’
23-12-2015	Why Jesus was, and is, a political threat	Jim Wallis, Sojourners (US)
21-12-2015	Christianity in British public life: The challenge of pluralism and the limits of secularity	Angus Ritchie, ABC Religion and Ethics
20-12-2015	Think of those who are alone at Christmas, Archbishop Freier urges	Philip Freier, The Age
19-12-2015	For many, faith comes at a high price	Nicholas Kristof, The New York Times
19-12-2015	Can we truly forgive? Is the Christian demand relevant today?	Barney Zwartz, The Age
18-12-2015	It’s time for progressives to reclaim the ‘war on Christmas’ and give it a new force	Jason Wilson, The Guardian Australia
18-12-2015	O come, all ye (occasionally) faithful	David Walker, Church Times (UK)
18-12-2015	Indaba and Dialogue – they work	Phil Groves, Anglican Communion News Service
17-12-2015	Can Christmas be saved from... well, Christmas?	Sally Cloke, ABC Religion and Ethics
16-12-2015	Gospel stories of the security state	Andrew Hamilton, Eureka Street
16-12-2015	Why Christians should abandon Christmas to Commercialism	Bruce Kaye, ABC Religion and Ethics
15-12-2015	Sex, Sense and Non-Sense for Anglicans	Martyn Percy, Modern Church: Liberal Faith in a Changing World (UK)
14-12-2015	Which refugees would Jesus resettle?	Aloysious Mowe, Eureka Street
14-12-2015	How the ‘fair go’ became the last bulwark for Australia’s freedoms	Gillian Triggs, The Conversation
11-12-2015	God's warriors are locked in a barbaric, futile battle against marriage equality	David Marr, The Guardian Australia
11-12-2015	A response to the Cronulla riots, 10 years on	Clare Wright, The Conversation
10-12-2015	How to overcome hateful rhetoric	Jim Wallis, Sojourners (US) video and text
10-12-2015	Turnbull’s Islamic howlers	Mark Durie, Quadrant Online
08-12-2015	Advent hope for a sustainable future	Russell Rollason, Canberra and Goulburn Anglican Community
07-12-2015	Faith schools are now under attack from the interfaith community	Toby Young, The Spectator (UK)
07-12-2015	How Long, O Lord? A US priest’s lament on gun violence	Peter Sickels, Anglican Communion News Service
07-12-2015	Just War or just butchery in expanding Syria conflict	Binoy Kampmark, Eureka Street
03-12-2015	Excluding abortion protestors is a matter of dignity	Fatima Measham, Eureka Street
03-12-2015	Marriage equality v religious freedom: They are not mutually exclusive	Rodney Croome, The Guardian Australia
03-12-2015	Look to our religious leaders for a climate change Plan B	Paul Bain, The Conversation
02-12-2015	Nanny State's arthritic grip contains common good	Andrew Hamilton, Eureka Street
01-12-2015	No moral case for bombing Syria	Barry Morgan, Anglican Communion News Service
26-11-2015	Discerning the place for the churches in the great moral questions of the age	Frank Brennan, Eureka Street
25-11-2015	Anglican appointment reveals continuity between Popes Francis and Benedict	John Allen, Crux (US)
25-11-2015	We need the Church of England more than ever. That’s why we need it to die	Peter Ormerod, The Guardian Australia
23-11-2015	Praying for the Paris climate talks	Rachel Mash, ACNS
23-11-2015	Cardinal Pell, his lawyers and the Royal Commission	Frank Brennan, Eureka Street
23-11-2015	Love alone is not enough	Mark Durie blog, Lapido Media
23-11-2015	Banning the Lord’s Prayer from cinemas is nonsense on stilts	Giles Fraser, The Guardian Australia
20-11-2015	The condemnation of ISIS by the Qur'an and legal prohibition is absolute: So why keep blaming Islam?	Mohamad Abdalla, ABC Religion and Ethics
20-11-2015	After the Paris attacks we must resist the urge to claim an eye for an eye	Giles Fraser, The Guardian Australia
20-11-2015	Christianity, culture and the limits of politics: What does it mean to love your neighbour?	Benjamin Myers and Geoff Thompson, ABC Religion and Ethics
20-11-2015	Showing solidarity with migrants is more than 'comfort' for white people	Amrita Malhi, The Guardian Australia
19-11-2015	Countering ISIS by going off-script	Fatima Measham, Eureka Street
19-11-2015	We must guard our reactions to ISIS attacks	Gregory Cameron, Anglican Communion News Service
19-11-2015	Re-illuminating the sacred	Elizabeth Dori Tunstall, The Conversation
18-11-2015	'Sting in the tail': Islam and the politicisation of religion	Milad Milani, ABC Religion and Ethics
18-11-2015	What separates us from IS	Andrew Hamilton, Eureka Street
17-11-2015	Sex abuse victims struggle for justice in Brisbane's web of powerful interests	Joshua Robertson, The Guardian Australia
17-11-2015	South Australia's nuclear threat continues	Michele Madigan, Eureka Street
17-11-2015	Why are we abusing our parents? The ugly facts of family violence and ageism	Briony Dow, The Conversation
16-11-2015	The murders in Paris and Lebanon: Why Muslims should not apologise	Mohamad Abdalla, ABC Religion and Ethics
16-11-2015	Wrong has been done, and there is not one person on this world who is not a victim of it	Mouneer Hanna Anis, Anglican Communion News Service
16-11-2015	Paris attacks: Why Islam and Christianity are twin religions of war and peace	Philip Almond, The Conversation
16-11-2015	Heroes of Victoria's juvenile justice reform	Tom Keating, Eureka Street
15-11-2015	Contemplating war in ordinary France	Bronwyn Lay, Eureka Street
15-11-2015	Requiem for Paris	Nick Baines’s Blog: Musings of a Restless Bishop
14-11-2015	In Paris, do we have to love our enemies?	Pierre Whalon, Episcopal News Service (US)
12-11-2015	Why Australia hesitates to legalise euthanasia	Andrew McGee, The Conversation
11-11-2015	God, the gods and democracy (part three)	John Keane, The Conversation
11-11-2015	A small act to give abused children a voice	Chris Goddard, The Conversation
10-11-2015	Forgetting the Good: Moral contradictions in the response to mass migration	Anna Rowlands, ABC Religion and Ethics
10-11-2015	Paris climate talks offer real/last hope for meaningful action	Fatima Measham, Eureka Street
10-11-2015	Many non-religious people still believe in God – what is that all about?	Adam Lee, The Guardian Australia
10-11-2015	From ‘right to die’ to ‘right to choose the way you die’ – the shifting euthanasia debate	Peter Saul, The Conversation
09-11-2015	Great Sexpectations: Augustine, Ashley Madison and the problem of disordered love	Justine Toh, ABC Religion and Ethics
07-11-2015	The Church of England’s shameful betrayal of Bishop George Bell	Peter Hitchens, The Spectator (UK)
05-11-2015	Housing fantasy quashed by culture of entitlement	Ellena Savage, Eureka Street
02-11-2015	Science and faith: Exploring an intellectual frontier	Alister McGrath, ABC Religion and Ethics
02-11-2015	Good Samaritan the model for receiving refugees	Suheil Dawani, Anglican Communion News Service
02-11-2015	Anglican link to UN’s Blue celebration for 70th anniversary	Russell Rollason, Canberra and Goulburn Anglican Community
01-11-2015	God, the gods and democracy (part two)	John Keane, The Conversation
28-10-2015	Bible verses Tony Abbott forgot about regarding refugees	Josh Butler, The Huffington Post Australia
28-10-2015	Bishop George Bell: The rule of the lynch mob	The Church of England Newspaper editorial
27-10-2015	Dealing with the past: Apologies and the possibility of the Ethical Nation	Danielle Celermajer, ABC Religion and Ethics
25-10-2015	Keep Islamophobia on the fringes where it belongs	Fatima Measham, Eureka Street
24-10-2015	God, the gods and democracy (part one)	John Keane, The Conversation
22-10-2015	Why Pope Francis is not an anti-Capitalist greenie	Frank Brennan, Eureka Street
21-10-2015	Daniel Andrews backs diversity, but not for believers who shun same-sex parenting	Dan Flynn, The Age
21-10-2015	Two cheers for the parish	Scott Cowdell, Canberra and Goulburn Anglican Community
20-10-2015	Young and free? Why I declined to sing the national anthem at the 2015 AFL Grand Final	Deborah Cheetham, The Conversation
20-10-2015	On suffering and God: A response to Stephen Fry	Patty Fawkner, The Good Oil (Sisters of the Good Samaritan)
19-10-2015	Dumb and dumber: a sermon	Kim Fabricius, Faith and Theology blog
19-10-2015	Good disagreement: Can the CofE hold it together?	Mark Woods, Christian Today (UK)
18-10-2015	British PM Cameron should listen to Syrian bishops, not the Anglican ones	MELANIE McDONAGH, THE SPECTATOR (UK)
13-10-2015	To quarrel is human, but God calls us to reconciliation	GREGORY CAMERON, ACNS
12-10-2015	If only gender-based violence really was un-Australian	TIM ROBERTSON, EUREKA STREET
12-10-2015	Melbourne medicos bring detained children into the light	JUSTIN GLYN, EUREKA STREET
08-10-2015	Think religion is detrimental to mental health? Think again	John Dickson, ABC Religion and Ethics
07-10-2015	Banning repugnant figures reflects a harsh, fearful society	Andrew Hamilton, Eureka Street
07-10-2015	Why I, as a bishop and a scientist, support the Pilgrimage to Paris	Graham Usher, ACNS
06-10-2015	What God has joined together, Bishop Parkes puts asunder	David Ould, ABC Religion and Ethics
05-10-2015	Christianity is dying out? Don't count on it	Barney Zwartz, ABC The Drum

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