Alleged death threats and an alleged home invasion of the Cobbitty property of Pastors Andrew, Noline Martin and Millicent Sedra of Echo Church in south-west Sydney have raced around the Christian Media, including Daystar TV and Premier Christian News in… Continue Reading
Faith, rhetoric and the ballot box: How religion has shaped Brazil’s current presidential election Manuela Lowenthal, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP) In the last few days before the 2026 elections, Flávio Bolsonaro and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva —… Continue Reading
Charles Brammall The Final CUT Lights up. A woman lies on a gurney. She is fifty years old. Thirty-one years earlier she murdered another young woman. She has spent more than three decades on death row, much of it in… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope Column Mushrooming: Obadiah has a confession – he has not been a big fan of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney’s Circular Quay: too many video installations for his curmudgeonly tastes. He has a modified earworm:… Continue Reading
Charles Brammall The Bible, tradition, experience, and our logic seem to be disquietingly clear- we are saved by works alone, and not by works. But then there’s Milano. Ahh… Milano. My wife’s aunt, a retired fashion model, lives in Milano.… Continue Reading
Richard Ostling via Religion Unplugged (ANALYSIS) So claims the cover headline on The Atlantic magazine’s August edition. The subheadline inside asks, “Can Civilization Survive the Postliterate Era?” This 8,700-word blockbuster by staff writer Rose Horowitch (paywalled here) says Americans are… Continue Reading