Q & A from the 2019 Richard Johnson Lecture with Tim Dixon and Simon Smart.
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.
Philosopher John Milbank on left vs right, Harry Potter, and how none of us behave like we’re just atoms.
Tim Dixon on polarisation, populism, and what we can expect heading into the 2020s.
A Nigerian YouTuber who's made a name for herself asking hard questions of powerful people.
Barney Zwartz reflects on the conviction of Cardinal George Pell and its implications for the Catholic hierarchy.
As Franklin Graham prepares to tour Australia, Barney Zwartz reflects on the differences in both the nation and the preacher since the 1959 Billy Graham crusade.
Barney Zwartz reflects on the results from the recent Australian Generation Z study into teens’ attitudes towards religion.
Barney Zwartz reflects on how inaccuracies in weather predictions can teach us an important lesson about faith.
Justine Toh on why Christmas is a message about giving a fork (a reference from ‘The Good Place’).
Barney Zwartz on whether the message of Christmas can provide us with a path to reconciliation.
Natasha Moore ponders the revolutionary impulse of the Christmas story.
How the shoot was better and worse than you ever imagined.
Jennifer Wiseman was an undergraduate just starting out in astronomy when someone named a comet after her.
Jennifer Wiseman reflects on the place of beauty in our study of the universe.
Jennifer Wiseman reflects on how big the universe is – and how small we are.
Jennifer Wiseman explains how she finds blessing in both her study of science and her reading of the Bible.
Jennifer Wiseman wouldn’t be surprised to discover that the whole universe was, in fact, teeming with life.
Laurel Moffatt writes about what the experience of going to the moon and coming back reveals about human nature.
Barney Zwartz reflects on death, grief, mortality, meaning, and the real comfort faith can bring.
For the fiftieth anniversary of the first moon landing, Simon Smart writes on humanity’s hunger for transcendence.
Tim Costello on free speech, the exhausted middle, and the dignity of difference.
Barney Zwartz rebuts three common myths and misunderstandings about the Christian faith.
Simon Smart reflects on the Israel Folau controversy and the complex questions it raises about what true tolerance looks like in a liberal democracy.
The Crusades are one of the most notorious episodes of Christian history.
Few ideas have changed our world more profoundly than this one.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer is a rare example of someone whose faith prompted him to stand up to Hitler.
Jesus dramatically changed how Western culture thinks about power and service.
The Jewish and early Christian insistence on care for the poor transformed the ancient world.
Jesus preached a radical ethic of non-violence – one the early church took very seriously.
Why might someone who’s not religious want to send their kids to a faith-based school?
Two conversations, two stories of lives committed to justice and the flourishing of others.
Philosopher Steven Garber on how we see our world, and ourselves.
Film and TV critic Alissa Wilkinson on the end of the world - as pop culture imagines it.
50 years on from the moon landing seems like a good time to ask a few existential questions.
There’s sadness and hope on the long road towards Aboriginal recognition and reconciliation.
Nick Spencer responds to questions following the 2018 Richard Johnson Lecture.
Nick Spencer delivers the 2018 Richard Johnson Lecture, on what makes the West the West.
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