28th Jun 2021
Dark Mofo returned to Hobart this month, with a startling theme: “come to the cross”. The winter festival hosted by the Museum of Old and......
28th Jun 2021
Dark Mofo returned to Hobart this month, with a startling theme: “come to the cross”. The winter festival hosted by the Museum of Old and......
21st Apr 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has been a time when people are open to thinking about social change. Accordingly, we have heard widespread calls for a......
21st Apr 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has been a time when people are open to thinking about social change. Accordingly, we have heard widespread calls for a......
30th Mar 2021
US founding father Thomas Jefferson constructed his own remix of Jesus’s greatest hits. The so-called Jefferson Bible is conspicuous because......
30th Mar 2021
US founding father Thomas Jefferson constructed his own remix of Jesus’s greatest hits. The so-called Jefferson Bible is conspicuous because......
2nd Mar 2021
In his latest novel, Light Perpetual, British writer Francis Spufford imagines the further lives of children killed in London by a German V2......
2nd Mar 2021
In his latest novel, Light Perpetual, British writer Francis Spufford imagines the further lives of children killed in London by a German V2......
23rd Dec 2020
In a year like 2020, one could be forgiven for confusion as to what Christmas might mean. The saccharine sentimentality of Yuletide past feels......
23rd Dec 2020
In a year like 2020, one could be forgiven for confusion as to what Christmas might mean. The saccharine sentimentality of Yuletide past feels......
13th Nov 2020
Social psychologists have found that those who focus most on the present report themselves to be happier than others — but this comes at a......
13th Nov 2020
Social psychologists have found that those who focus most on the present report themselves to be happier than others — but this comes at a......
9th Oct 2020
The rich and sad and quirky inner lives of the constellation of souls we meet in and through Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead novels confirm what......
9th Oct 2020
The rich and sad and quirky inner lives of the constellation of souls we meet in and through Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead novels confirm what......
31st Aug 2020
We may pride ourselves, in the early twenty-first century — in this golden age of prestige television — on the moral complexity of the stories......
31st Aug 2020
We may pride ourselves, in the early twenty-first century — in this golden age of prestige television — on the moral complexity of the stories......
30th Jul 2020
The phrase “original sin” usually stops, not starts, conversations. Yet in these days of racial reckoning, it’s become powerful shorthand......
30th Jul 2020
The phrase “original sin” usually stops, not starts, conversations. Yet in these days of racial reckoning, it’s become powerful shorthand......
2nd Jul 2020
In Ethiopia, walls surrounding churches have created ecological safe places, sacred forests that present small hopeful green signs of the way......
2nd Jul 2020
In Ethiopia, walls surrounding churches have created ecological safe places, sacred forests that present small hopeful green signs of the way......
1st May 2020
One of the most unfortunate effects of the COVID-19 pandemic is the rise in our collective anxiety — the dread that something really bad might......
1st May 2020
One of the most unfortunate effects of the COVID-19 pandemic is the rise in our collective anxiety — the dread that something really bad might......
10th Apr 2020
Stoicism has staged a twenty-first century comeback, and has even been touted as an effective philosophical antidote to our COVID-19 ravaged......
10th Apr 2020
Stoicism has staged a twenty-first century comeback, and has even been touted as an effective philosophical antidote to our COVID-19 ravaged......
