religion

Smiles and laughter Down Under

Alex Perrottet | 25 July 2008 | comment 15

What's it like to be part of the biggest youth festival on earth?

Catholic and cool in Sydney

Michael Cook | 21 July 2008 | comment 28

After years of being booed offstage, the curtains have again opened and God is being greeted with tumultuous applause.

Religion in a ‘different strokes for different folks’ world

Kevin Ryan | 18 July 2008 | comment 2

The latest Pew survey of religious sentiments shows that Americans are tolerant and confused. 

Unlikely centre of attraction

Tracey Rowland | 08 July 2008 | comment 16

Pope Benedict XVI has a mysterious but very genuine appeal for Gen Y. A woman who is one of Australia's leading theologians explains why. 

A hostage gives thanks

Sheila Liaugminas | 04 July 2008 | comment 11

Ingrid Betancourt plainly thought God had a hand in her liberation, but the signs went unremarked in most news coverage.

Faithful husbands and fathers

W Bradford Wilcox | 03 July 2008 | comment 5

Churchgoing men are not a hangover of the old patriarchy but a new breed who are closely connected to their families.

A Secular Age

Randal Marlin | 02 July 2008 | comment 16

Why has contemporary Western society abandoned God and religion? A Canadian philosopher traces the history of unbelief.

As it was in the beginning

Joanna Bogle | 01 July 2008 | comment 24

Why sexual issues matter enough to cause a schism in the Anglican communion.

Legalising polygamy for Muslims

Bill Muehlenberg | 30 June 2008 | comment 24

Polygamy is a consensual arrangement among adults, says an Australian Muslim leader, so what can the West have against it?

Ground for annulment

Ignacio Aréchaga | 20 June 2008 | comment 14

Why can't a court oblige a Muslim disappointed that his new wife is not a virgin? Marriages are dissolved every day for more trivial reasons.

Faith, Reason, and the War Against Jihadism

Francis Phillips | 18 June 2008 | comment 16

To meet the challenge of radical Islam and jihadism, the Christian West must return to its roots.

Strictly for the star-struck

Richard Umbers | 22 May 2008 | comment 5

What does the Hollywood crowd see in Scientology? Whatever it is, Aussie billionaire James Packer is no longer putting his money on it.

A short history of voluntary death

Jose A Bufill | 21 May 2008 | comment 16

The ancients accepted it, Christians rejected it and now a post-Christian elite is embracing euthanasia again.

The mystery of evil

Carolyn Moynihan | 06 May 2008 | comment 31

The crimes of Josef Fritzl cannot be explained within our normal secularist assumptions about the world.

Pope Benedict at the UN: a moral grammar of rights

Sheila Gribben Liaugminas | 26 April 2008 | comment 6

Sixty years after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the pope offers an interpretive key.

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