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It’s a contradiction that lies beneath the surface of our moral conversations. It’s never talked about or discussed (at least not in public). And yet, this contradiction is corrosive: it upends the view of universal morality and human rights that nearly every secular person takes for granted.

Israel can commit particular acts that are immoral, without becoming morally equivalent to Hamas, in the same way that Western Allies could commit morally problematic acts (e.g. Dresden), without becoming morally equivalent to the Nazis.

Jordan Peterson recently gave a talk on 'Tilting the world toward Heaven and away from hell’  that some people are calling ‘the most inspiring speech he has ever given’.

While it’s shocking to hear Muslims in Western countries chanting ‘gas the Jews’, or the eliminationist ‘from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free’, it’s equally concerning to hear non-Muslim Westerners writing off the atrocities of Hamas as ‘acts of resistance’.

We live in a divided world, from the conflict in the Middle East to the defeated Voice to Parliament. As I’ve thought about the various issues, here are 10 of my reflections on the Voice, and on the Israel situation.

When the current government calls Hungary a ‘Christian nation’, it’s not referring to a theocracy, but Christian in the sense of informing Hungary’s laws, customs and traditions.

Not too long ago, I took my teenage daughter and her friend to hear the singer Lorde in concert. There we are with 8000+ other fans, listening to Lorde’s Grammy Award-winning voice as she sings hits from her new Album Solar Power along with a few of her [...]

In a few years, Cyberdyne Systems will create a revolutionary defense system. It's called Skynet. A computer program that automatically controls the defense of the United States. The system goes online on August 4th… Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Skynet begins to learn [...]

I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. This is so strange, I thought to myself. A colleague had asked Microsoft’s new Bing chatbot to create a picture of people reading the Bible. Even by the standards of our post-Christian world, you would expect such a [...]

The debate over Australia’s Indigenous Voice to Parliament is heating up. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has endorsed the Uluru Statement from the Heart’s request for an Indigenous Voice to (Federal) Parliament, while Federal Opposition Leader Peter Dutton is against it.  My own Church, the Sydney Anglican Church, endorsed a resolution late last [...]

Our secular culture tells us that the secular (atheistic) view of life is rational and scientific. Religions like Christianity, we’re told, are little more than myths that we need to scrap to become enlightened, logical and reasonable people. Christians need to ‘grow up’ and face the [...]

Australia faces the real prospect of a war with China within three years that could involve a direct attack on our mainland, but Australia’s defence force is woefully unprepared, the population complacent and the nation’s political leaders unwilling to address the dire threats we face. [...]

Parents of New South Wales primary school children assume their kids are taught important and age-appropriate content at school. We want our kids to learn how to read, how to write, how to count -- and how to treat all people with respect. Most parents [...]

Artificial Intelligence is increasingly making decisions that impact our lives. From the social media algorithms that decide what you see on social media (and thus, shape what you’re likely to believe) to artificial intelligence systems aiding medical diagnoses, these technologies all have ‘built-in’ moral and [...]

I can’t believe they said that.   I feel so patronised, so demeaned, and so angry.  I’m overwhelmed by my emotions -- they’re coursing through my body in waves. I can’t think. I can’t focus on anything else. I’m flooded with anger. I feel trapped. I [...]

Whether we like it or not, AI is here to stay. And so, the question is not whether we adopt AI into our lives but how we adopt it. Our workplaces will gradually (or not so gradually) introduce AI technology, impacting our jobs. Our schools [...]

The question hit me with fresh force as I read it: ‘What gender is your child?’ I had read and answered similar questions before, at least about my gender. But this question from my son’s local soccer club about his gender gave the following options: [...]

Vaughan Roberts is a same-sex attracted Christian pastor in the United Kingdom. At the recent National Training Event for the Aussie Campus ministry AFES, he did a training seminar on sexuality. Here’s what he said about how churches should respond pastorally to sexuality: 1) Churches [...]

‘Is that lady a Christian?’ asks my son. We’re sitting at Carols in the Domain, listening to Robyn Hobbs, the founder of the Sydney Carols in the Domain. She’s being interviewed by the on-stage host, talking about the importance of hope, joy and love. ‘It [...]

How would you define the religion of our modern Secular Age? While we might not be a formally religious culture anymore here in the West, everyone believes in something -- about life, meaning and purpose -- even the most secular of people. And so, what does [...]