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Australians are more millennial, multilingual and less religious: what the census reveals

Image: Dean Lewins/AAP Census data released Tuesday shows Australia changing rapidly before COVID, gaining an extra one million residents from overseas in the past five years,...

Sunday essay: how the West discovered the Buddha

Image: Shutterstock Buddhism is the third largest (and fastest growing) religion in Australia with approximately half a million adherents. The celebration of the Buddha’s birthday here...

Guide to classics: the Tibetan Book of the Dead

Image: Wheel of life and death. Wikimedia commons Since it was first published in English in 1927, The Tibetan Book of the Dead has proved...

John Lennon’s Imagine at 50: a deceptively simple ballad, a lasting emblem of hope

  Image: EPA 1971 was a tumultuous year. The counter-cultural movement of the 60s was still being felt. Demonstrations were held opposing the Vietnam War...

Sunday essay: Satan is back (again) — the Devil in 5 dark details

  Picture: Tom Ellis in Lucifer. IMDB His title is the Devil, but he goes by a number of names — Satan, Lucifer, Beliar, Beelzebul or...

Sunday essay: what do the 5 great religions say about the existence of the soul?

  All things must pass - George Harrison A recent survey found almost 70% of Australians believed in or were open to the existence of the...

New research documents the severity of LGBTQA+ conversion practices — and why faith matters in recovery

  Picture: Shuttlestock New research reveals the harms of religion-based LGBTQA+ conversion practices are more severe than previously thought. People who have been harmed by attempts...

Cave of Horror: fresh fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls echo dramatic human stories

     Israel Antiquities Authority conservator Tanya Bitler shows newly discovered Dead Sea Scroll fragments at the Dead Sea Scrolls conservation lab in Jerusalem. AP Photo/Sebastian...

Five things to know about the Antichrist

Luca Signorelli’s Sermon and Deeds of the Antichrist ( c. 1499 and 1502). Wikimedia Commons In the history of the West over the last 2000...

Sunday essay: transcendent rage — Nick Cave and the Red Hand Files

Picture: - Manuel Fernando Araujo/EPA Nick Cave is a tough knot of wonders to his fans, and seemingly so to himself. At the close...
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