Tag: Robyn J. Whitaker - article author
Morrison’s Christian empathy needs to be about more than just prayer – it requires action, too
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Over the past week, Australians have heard Scott Morrison make several explicit references to his faith. Given Morrison has placed his faith...
‘The blood of Jesus is my vaccine’: how a fringe group of Christians hijacks faith in a war against science
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“The blood of Jesus is my vaccine” read one of the signs at a recent protest against lockdown regulations in...
From virgin births to purity movements: Christians and their problem with sex
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It took 400 years, but sometime in the early fifth century Christians transformed a tradition about Jesus’s miraculous virgin birth into a...
What and where is heaven? The answers are at the heart of the Easter story
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My pious Baptist grandmother once shockingly confessed, at the ripe old age of 93, that she didn’t want to go...