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Keywords: Faith

  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    True crime, fake illness, real profits

    • Nikki Richardson
    • 06 March 2025

    In Netflix series Apple Cider Vinegar, Belle Gibson’s wellness scam has been repackaged for the streaming era, perfectly illustrating how news, entertainment, and advertising function as overlapping parts of the same machinery to keep us consuming content.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    If he be an honest man, so much better

    • Warwick McFadyen
    • 06 March 2025

      What does a forgotten cemetery job ad from 1860 reveal about the lives we honour, the work we overlook, and the honesty we still hope for? A chance discovery in the archives becomes a meditation on honesty, mortality, and the curious poetry of forgotten lives. 

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  • RELIGION

    Lent was never just about giving things up

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 05 March 2025

    Lent is often reduced to private acts of restraint. But its history tells a richer story; of communal memory, public reckoning, and the need to confront human suffering. As new crises unfold, from war to political decay, Lent reminds us that forgetting the past is a luxury we cannot afford.

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Criticism or condemnation? The ethics of speech in times of war

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 19 February 2025

    The shockwaves of the Hamas attack on Israel and the Israeli military’s response in Gaza have ignited protests, inflamed divisions, and prompted a reckoning with rising antisemitism. As hostilities pause, how should societies distinguish between legitimate criticism and rhetoric that fuels hate?

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  • RELIGION

    We need to talk about anti-Judaism resurfacing in the Church

    • Emma Carolan
    • 19 February 2025

    Amidst a rise in antisemitism globally, some in the Jewish community have raised concerns about echoes of historic anti-Judaism resurfacing within the Church. While Catholic leaders condemn overt hate, has the Church fully confronted its entrenched biases, or do old prejudices still affect its response in ways that go unnoticed?

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Three poets: John Kelly, Isabella G. Mead, Warwick McFadyen

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 14 February 2025

      These poets offer distinct reflections on life, faith, and human experience in their recent work. From Kelly’s reflective musings on faith and education to Mead’s exploration of motherhood and nature, and McFadyen’s grappling with grief, their works search for a ‘something more’.

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