You’ve weathered home-schooling, dodgy internet, incredible uncertainty, mental health challenges, and being isolated from friends – all before you sat final exams in pursuit of a numerical ranking – the ATAR – that you probably feared would sum up your entire schooling career. No pressure, right?
People have very different ideas of what Christmas is “really about”. Life & Faith weighs the options.
Theologian Sarah Coakley interrogates our relationship to sex, food, money, the body, and God.
Tim Costello on the spiritual hold gambling exerts over Australian politics, culture, and identity.
We talk Ted Lasso, Sally Rooney’s latest novel, and get sentimental about our stuff with Unpacking.
ABC Religion and Ethics editor, Scott Stephens, answers questions after delivering CPX's annual Richard Johnson Lecture for 2021.
ABC Religion and Ethics editor, Scott Stephens, delivers CPX's annual Richard Johnson Lecture for 2021.
ABC Religion and Ethics editor, Scott Stephens, answers questions after delivering CPX’s annual Richard Johnson Lecture for 2021.
ABC Religion and Ethics editor, Scott Stephens, delivers CPX’s annual Richard Johnson Lecture for 2021.
Christine Caine explores how her own challenges ignited a passion for justice for the voiceless and exploited.
Clinical psychologist Jonathan Andrews explains how, in the right circumstances, relationships can heal our broken hearts, and salve our growing…
The award-winning novelist talks about navigating cultural diversity, representation, and Buddhism.
Tim Costello reflects on the lockdown blues, pandemic pressures, and the one thing that’s renewing his hope in this difficult…
Tim Costello reflects on Ash Barty’s historic Wimbledon win, the EURO final, and the important difference between patriotism and nationalism.
Tim Costello on the debate over Bruce Pascoe’s ‘Dark Emu’, and the need to recognise the image of God in…
Tim Costello explains why he’s getting the AstraZeneca COVID vaccine.
Tim Costello reflects on individual and systemic evils, and how in the Christian story Jesus comes to deal with them…
Tim Costello reflects on a famous story from Jesus’ life, and what lessons it teaches men about moving from toxic…
All of which means that quitting my drug of choice – achievement – may bring on a spiritual crisis. If my life isn’t going to revolve around what I (or my kids) accomplish, I’ll need to find something else.
Clinical psychologist and CPX Fellow, Leisa Aitken takes us through six steps to cope better in endless lockdowns (and how to ocean ski paddle).
“Abandon all hope, ye who enter here,” reads the sign at the entrance to hell in Dante’s Divine Comedy (readers of my columns might be familiar with the feeling). That line is surely the most famous of one of the most famous and influential literary works in history.
That was the day the sky broke. My optimism—formed from a bubble of white middle class privilege—shattered the minute I […]
This R U OK Day, Emma Wilkins reflects on the need to not just ask, “are you ok?” but also to answer the question honestly.
Please enjoy this extract from Justine Toh’s new bite-sized book, Achievement Addiction as part of our Re:CONSIDERING series.
How the shoot was better and worse than you ever imagined.
The Crusades are one of the most notorious episodes of Christian history.
Few ideas have changed our world more profoundly than this one.
How can we take Christianity seriously, if Christians have so often departed from the tune of Jesus?
Jesus’ most famous parable had a big influence on the early church – and the world.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer is a rare example of someone whose faith prompted him to stand up to Hitler.
Robert Woodberry offers some examples of where the enduring impact of missionaries is clearly visible.
ABC Religion and Ethics editor, Scott Stephens, answers questions after delivering CPX’s annual Richard Johnson Lecture for 2021.
ABC Religion and Ethics editor, Scott Stephens, delivers CPX’s annual Richard Johnson Lecture for 2021.
John Lennox revisits two iconic incidents: Galileo and the Huxley-Wilberforce debate.
Edwin Judge assesses the far-reaching legacy of the first Christian emperor.
David Bentley Hart demolishes an enduring myth.
Christine Caine explores how her own challenges ignited a passion for justice for the voiceless and exploited.
Clinical psychologist Jonathan Andrews explains how, in the right circumstances, relationships can heal our broken hearts, and salve our growing…
The award-winning novelist talks about navigating cultural diversity, representation, and Buddhism.
Tony Rinaudo has uncovered some surprising sources of hope for a warming planet.
Benjamin Gilmour reflects on 26 years as a paramedic, a poet, and a filmmaker - including in Afghanistan.
Scott Stephens, editor of ABC’s Religion & Ethics website, shares his own fascinating backstory.
ABC Religion and Ethics editor, Scott Stephens, delivers CPX's annual Richard Johnson Lecture for 2021.
In the 2020 Richard Johnson Lecture, historian Sarah Irving-Stonebraker asks: does the notion of religious liberty still have currency today?
In the 2020 Richard Johnson Lecture, historian Sarah Irving-Stonebreaker asks: does the notion of religious liberty still have currency today?
Q & A from the 2019 Richard Johnson Lecture with Tim Dixon and Simon Smart.
In the 2019 Richard Johnson Lecture, Tim Dixon offers a vision for how we might reunite increasingly fragmented societies.
Nick Spencer responds to questions following the 2018 Richard Johnson Lecture.
