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 19

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 28

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 17

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.

Polygamy by any other name

Carolyn Moynihan | 26 April 2008 | comment 13

A religious sect is being prosecuted for under-age sex and marriage. A lot of other people should be feeling uncomfortable.

Pope Benedict on marriage: key to world peace

Maggie Gallagher | 15 April 2008 | comment 10

As the Pope begins his visit to the United States there is one topic he is certain to speak on.

Pope to find US Protestants more receptive

Gerald R. McDermott | 11 April 2008 | comment 26

Benedict XVI will be welcomed by many American Protestants when he visits the US next week.

The donut of liberal history

Martin Fitzgerald | 04 April 2008 | comment 6

In a new book about the evolution of liberty in the West, 1500 years of Christian civilisation counts for nothing.

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