RELIGION

        Picture: Stefan Lochner, Last Judgement, circa 1435. Wikimedia Commons Easter celebrates the Christian belief that Jesus Christ rose from the dead. In so doing, he overcame sin and death on behalf of all of us. The...

Picture: DANIEL POCKETT/AAP Investigative journalist Suzie Smith’s new book The Altar Boys is a searing read that raises new questions about the suicides of three former victims of Catholic clergy child sexual abuse. Smith, a former award-winning...

Image: Shuttlecock Women still make up the majority of the Catholic workforce and Catholic congregations, but their participation in church life is in decline. Indeed, each generation of Catholic women in Australia is less likely than the previous one to attend...

A bill that allows harm. Bianca de Marchi/AAP Submissions on the second version Christian Porter’s religious discrimination bill are closed, and we await the verdict. The first version of the bill was widely criticised for going too far,...

Image:Wes Mountain It took 400 years, but sometime in the early fifth century Christians transformed a tradition about Jesus’s miraculous virgin birth into a doctrine that inextricably connected sex with sin. It has plagued...

Evangelical church teachings create fertile ground for domestic violence, its justification and its concealment. Image: Shutterstock Jane* was a member of Australia’s evangelical Christian community, and throughout her marriage she heard many sermons on...

Picture by Muhammad Ruqiyaddin/Unsplash The second Islamophobia in Australia Report launched last month, in the same week a graphic video showing a pregnant Muslim woman being punched and stomped on circulated widely on social media. Earlier in...

Can prayers bring rain to drought-stricken parts of the country? Our prime mInister hopes so. Sam Mooy/AAP In a speech in Albury last month, Prime Minister Scott Morrison told his audience that he was praying for...

The Australian Federation of Islamic Councils says the bill doesn’t go far enough to protect religious minorities in an increasingly intolerant society. Dan Himbrechts/AAP The Coalition government’s proposed religious discrimination bill has been criticised for the potential...

If this bill had been law when Rugby Australia sacked Israel Folau, he might have chosen to pursue a federal discrimination case. Joel Carrett/AAP The federal government released its draft Religious Discrimination Bill Friday. The idea...