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Julia Baird on Christianity and Domestic Abuse

There has been media attention this past week to an article by Julie Baird on the ABC website about links between domestic violence and church teachings. There was also a recent 7.30 report on the same topic by Julia Baird and Paige MacKenzie.

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Excuse Me, Your Cognitive Dissonance Is Showing

On June 5 in Brighton, Melbourne, at a spot I have driven past countless times, there was a terrorist incident. An armed Muslim, Yacqub Khayre, crying out support for the Islamic State and Al-Qaeda, took a hostage, killed a hotel worker, and engaged police in

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Philip Adams on Violence in Mad Max

While reading Australian journalist Philip Adams’ despairing rage against cinema violence  – and he’s not wrong! –  I was reminded of the words of polymath David Goldman, commenting on the rise and rise of horror in films: “If you do not believe in God, you

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Dr Mark Durie is an academic, Anglican pastor, Writing Fellow at the Middle East Forum, and Senior Research Fellow of the Arthur Jeffery Centre for the Study of Islam at Melbourne School of Theology.
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