Ignoring the Magna Carta a dangerous path

David Harper

July 12 2015The Magna Carta is a reminder of the importance to civilisation of the rule of law.

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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