The placement of Mount Sinai is a mystery inside an enigma as Churchill said about something else entirely. The enigma is the land of Midian. There are many scholars, who identify it as being part of ...

In 1689, the British philosopher John Locke published his famous A Letter Concerning Toleration, which argued that an alternative to religious sectarianism and political persecution was the toleration ...

Today, Australia is visibly a religiously plural society. Christianity is no longer the ‘normal’ religion. Religious diversity is the new normal. And we experience that diversity daily. There are ...

Last week, Sorel Coward finally confronted her Archbishop. In a strange coincidence, Geoffrey Smith – who is Archbishop of Adelaide – was the bishop who ordained Coward as a priest (minister) years ...

Catholics across the world are today commemorating the feast of St Francis of Assisi. St Francis is the Catholic Church’s patron saint of animals and the environment and today’s feast day commemorates ...

Victoria plans legislation that will narrow religious exemptions to anti-discrimination laws “making it unlawful for religious bodies and schools to discriminate against an employee because of their ...

On this World Teacher’s Day, I pay my respects to all teachers and offer this account of one of the most influential teacher-student-teacher relationships in history, Ælberht and Alcuin of York. In ...

Australian actor George Xanthis has played the role of John Travolta and one of the Capone brothers. But it is his current one, playing John the Apostle in The Chosen, that he says is “the best role ...

America’s first President of the twentieth century, Theodore Roosevelt, once quipped that “a thorough understanding of the Bible is better than a college education”. In our own time, Queen Elizabeth ...