In Texas, Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico is standing against a controversial Republican, Ken Paxton, in a state that, according to Pew research, is 27% evangelical Protestant, 10% “mainline” Protestant, 5% in historically Black Protestant churches, 22% Catholic, 10% other,… Continue Reading
Richard Ostling via religion Unplugged (ANALYSIS) J.D. Vance has lately written two books but, somewhat awkwardly, combined both within the same covers. The result is “Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith,” a fascinating document for obvious reasons. But neither… Continue Reading
Multiculturalism is the word of the month thanks to the fractures on the right of Australian politics, and a new book challenges Christians to think through just how multicultural their church is willing to be. “The Multicultural Challenge to Sydney… Continue Reading
In the lead-up to the 250th anniversary of the USA (semiquincentennial), Peter Bentley provides a selection of articles from his series looking at the USA through American film and television. War has been a defining feature of the history of… Continue Reading
Stephen McAlpine, public theologian and author, has attended the conservative ARC (Alliance for Responsible Citizenship) conference in London and, unlike others, has come back in two minds.He appears somewhat sympathetic to the “rebuilding the west” theme that ARC runs with,… Continue Reading
This week, Mediawatch on the ABC was a cracker, bundling the stories of Sal Gover (of Giggle v Tickle fame) and Karl Stefanovic’s abrupt departure from Nine. It was so good it bears repeating. On Grover, Mediawatch took their host… Continue Reading