Articles & Reviews Archive

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• Book Reviews
• Armstrong, Karen - On the Bible
• Armstrong, Karen - The Battle for God
• Armstrong, Karen - The Spiral Staircase
• Baxter, Paul - Power v Love
• Boulton, David (ed.) - Godless for God
• Boulton, David - The Trouble With God
• Boulton, David - Who On Earth Was Jesus?
• Boulton, David - Who On Earth Was Jesus? (2)
• Bryson, Bill - A Short History of Nearly Everything
• Burke, Paul - Father Frank
• Carroll, John - Ego & Soul
• Carroll, John - The Existential Jesus
• Cooper, Adrian - Sacred Mountains
• Coplestone, F.S. - Jesus Christ or Mohammed?
• Cowdell, Scott - A God For This World
• Cupitt, Don - Above Us Only Sky
• Cupitt, Don - Impossible Loves
• Cupitt, Don - Is Nothing Sacred?
• Cupitt, Don - Kingdom Come
• Cupitt, Don - Life, Life
• Cupitt, Don - Radical Theology
• Cupitt, Don - Reforming Christianity
• Cupitt, Don - The Meaning of It All in Everyday Speech
• Cupitt, Don - The Meaning of the West
• Cupitt, Don - The New Religion of Life in Everyday Speech
• Dawkins, Richard - The God Delusion (1)
• Dawkins, Richard - The God Delusion (2)
• Dawkins, Richard - The God Delusion (3)
• Dessaix, Robert - A Mother’s Disgrace
• Dessaix, Robert - Night Letters
• Emmerton, John - How to Find God
• Fisk, Robert - The Great War for Civilisation
• Freke & Gandy - The Jesus Mysteries
• Geering, Lloyd - Christian Faith at the Crossroads
• Geraghty, Chris - The Priest Factory
• Good, Jack - The Dishonest Church
• Gross, Dick - Jesus, Judas and Mordy Ben Reuben
• Gunson, John - Learning to Live Without God
• Hamid, Mohsin - The Reluctant Fundamentalist
• Hampson, Michael - God Without God
• Harris, Sam - The End of Faith
• Hecht, Jennifer - Doubt: A History
• Holloway, Richard - Doubts and Loves
• Holloway, Richard - Godless Morality
• Hunt, John - Bringing God Back to Earth
• Hunter, Julie - The Myths That Make Us
• Isler, Alan - Clerical Errors
• Jones, Steve - Almost Like a Whale
• King, Karen - The Gospel of Mary
• Kirkwood, Peter - The Quiet Revolution
• le Guin, Ursula - the telling
• Leaves, Nigel - Odyssey on the Sea of Faith
• Leaves, Nigel - Surfing on the Sea of Faith
• Masterson, Andrew - The Last Days & The Second Coming
• McEwan, Ian - Saturday
• McGrath, Alister - In the Beginning
• McGrath, Alister - The Dawkins Delusion?
• Mills, David - Atheist Universe
• Mitchell, Stephen - God in the Bath
• Mortimer, John - The Summer of a Dormouse
• Morwood, Michael - Is Jesus God?
• Morwood, Michael - Praying a New Story
• Murchison, Paul - Who is This God?
• Orens, John Richard - Stewart Headlam
• Orens, John Richard - Stewart Headlam
• Paranjape, Makarand (ed.) - Sacred Australia
• Pataki, Tamas - Against Religion
• Pearson, John - Train Doors Slamming
• Persig, Robert M - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
• Pilger, John - Tell Me No Lies
• Reilly, Graham - Sweet Time
• Spong, John Shelby - Here I Stand
• Spong, John Shelby - Why Christianity Must Change or Die
• Steiner, Robert - Dreamtime
• Tacey, David - ReEnchantment
• Tacey, David - The Spirituality Revolution
• Taussig, Hal - Jesus Before God
• Tolle. Eckhart - The Power of Now
• Vardy, Peter - Being Human
• Venn-Brown, Anthony - A Life of Unlearning
• Vickers, Sally - Miss Garnet's Angel
• Wainwright, Elaine - Shall We Look for Another?
• Wakeman, Hilary - Saving Christianity
• Wallace et al - Time and Tide
• Wheen, Francis - How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World
• Williams, Robyn - Unintelligent Design
• Wilson, A. N. - God
• You’ll find a complete list of reviews in our archive…
• Buddhism
• Buddhist Existentialism (Robert Miller)
• Now and Forever, Amen (Greg Spearritt)
• Reverence For Life (Peter Butcher)
• What's Wrong With Buddhism? (Cliff Willard)
• Why Buddhism Beckons (Greg Spearritt)
• Church/Organised Religion
• A Fith Column? (Wayne Crich)
• CPR for the Soul (Greg Spearritt)
• Does the Church Matter? (Rodney Eivers)
• Does the Church Need Reform? (Nigel Leaves)
• Finding a Home (Frances Kendall)
• Making Connections (Nigel Leaves)
• New Thinking About the Historical Jesus (Kevin G. Smith)
• Personal Spirituality v. Community Religion (Alison Cotes)
• The American Anomaly (Jed Perkins)
• The Catholic Mass & The St Mary's Saga (Donna Garibaldi)
• Conferences - SoFiA
• Does Jesus Matter Anymore? (David Boulton)
• SEQ Conference 2009
• Who on Earth was Jesus? - audio (David Boulton)
• Who on Earth was Jesus?: The Scholarship and Research (David Boulton)
• Earth/Nature
• Thoughts on the Tsunami (Judith Bore)
• Ethics/Morality
• Are We Obliged to Forgive? (Nigel Sinnott/Dmitri Perno)
• Ethical Reflections (Nicholas Rundle)
• Navigating the Reefs (Judith Bore)
• The Ethic of Jesus: Is It All It's Cracked Up to Be? (Rodney Eivers)
• The Failings of Religion (Chantal Babin)
• The Species Nexus (David Pavlacky)
• Faith/Belief
• 'Beliefless' Religion?
• A Better Easter (Terry Gaw)
• A Miscellany of Heresy (Jed Perkins)
• Belief as Personal Responsibility (Lesley Barker)
• Beyond Deconstruction (Graham Warren)
• Bigger Than Belief (Greg Spearritt)
• Faith and the Supernatural (Rodney Eivers)
• How Horrid is Heresy? (Greg Spearritt)
• Lost in Space (Peter Hooton)
• My March to Militant Atheism (Nigel Sinnott)
• SoFiA 2009 Religion Poll
• The Heresy of Climate Skepticism (Greg Spearritt)
• The Noah Assignment (Bob Dungavell)
• Voyaging to Immortality on the Sea of Faith? (Barbara McKenzie)
• Film Reviews
• Angels and Demons
• Chocolat
• Deliver Us From Evil
• Dogville
• Look Both Ways
• Serenades
• The Gift
• The Matrix
• Islam
• Islam: An Overview (Peter Bore)
• Muslims aren't all the same (Malcolm Brown)
• Life in General
• At the Gallery (Judith Bore)
• Confucious Says: On Being a 'Superior Person' (Rodney Eivers)
• Why is there not just nothing? (Laurel Sommerfeld)
• Religion
• Christmas for Non-Christians? (Alison Cotes)
• Goodies and Baddies: Faith or a Vacuum? (Rodney Eivers)
• Learning to Live Without God (John Gunson)
• Nor Certitude (Peter Bore)
• Seriously Secular? (John Gunson)
• The Origin of Religion (Lachlan McInnes)
• Science & Religion
• Christian Fundamentalism: Is It Valid? (S. B. Colegrove)
• Is Science the New Religion? (David Miller)
• On Religion and Science: Krauss & Wilkins [audio]
• The Atheist, the Agnostic & the Scientist (David Miller)
• Sea of Faith
• Has the Tide Gone Out for the Sea of Faith?
• Living in Past... Looking to the Future (Peter Bore)
• Society
• Invoking Religion in Australian Politics
• Toccata and Fugue (Ralph Sedgely)
• Spirituality
• A Psychological Approach to the Experience of Spirituality (Helen Mason)
• God, Gods and Spirituality (David Miller)
• Inspiration and the Elegant Solution (Ken Davidson)
• On Prayer (John Wessel)
• On Redeeming the Secular Life (Ralph Sedgely)
• Postmodern Spirituality (Robert Miller)
• Spiritual Experiences in a Secular World (John Carr)
• Spirituality and Cyberspace (Judith Bore)
• Youth Spirituality (Jacqueline Hodder)
• Theology
• A Human Construction? (Greg Spearritt)
• Christian Fundamentalism - Is It Valid? (S.B. Colegrove)
• Desperately Seeking Sophia (Alison Cotes)
• Fact and Fiction (Jim Lacey)
• God as ‘Love’ or God as ‘Life’? (Rodney Eivers)
• Many Religions: One God? (Greg Spearritt)
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