3+ week, 3+ day ago   (113+ words) Program:The Religion and Ethics Report The conviction of the Catholic bishop of Broome raises new questions about the ability of the church to investigate itself, especially in cases of abuse. One of the world's leading experts on church law…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (579+ words) I think of Wendell Berry every time I use my chainsaw. The American novelist, essayist and unofficial poet laureate of the sustainable agriculture movement died this week at the age of 92. I met him several times through my association with…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (815+ words) Harry Hobbs and Stephen Young Whenever we publish anything about “sovereign citizens”, we receive emails that say something like this: The term “sovereign citizen” is an oxymoron. A sovereign is self-governing and subject to no higher authority other than God,…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (250+ words) For much of the past two decades, Australia has looked north to Indonesia and seen a close neighbour, a regional power, a trading partner and Australia’s number one overseas destination. Increasingly, however, it has also viewed Indonesia through the lens…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (703+ words) Socrates’s gadfly stung me out of my adolescent apathy soon after I read his “Apology” in Plato’s The Last Day of Socrates, when I was about the same age as the students I teach today. This was my first proper…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (1493+ words) We’ve never been more sentimental about animals. We buy orthopaedic beds for our cats, supplements to support the joints of senior dogs, and pause in the supermarket aisle to consider whether pasture-raised eggs are more virtuous than free-range. Yet when…...