Controversy continues to surround section 8 of the Victorian Abortion Law Reform Act 2008. Some see this section as necessary to protect women’s health and the “right” to access to abortion, others see it as a dangerous and unnecessary restriction of the basic human right to freedom of conscience.

Australia has had tough budgets before, but five factors make the 2014-15 budget a low-point in Australia’s modern history and should continue to spur Christian leaders into outspoken and courageous resistance.

Christians must practise a ‘hermeneutic of hospitality’ to those who are ‘other’, including Muslims and non-believers, argues Professor Miroslav Volf.

Freedom to critique government policy should be an inalienable right, and yet now the Federal Government wants to use the Australian Public Service Code of Conduct to mute public servants and to risk demoralising and dividing them by turning them into dobbers and spies.

Eighteen reasons I decided to participate in a non-violent blockade of the Maules Creek open cut coal mine in rural NSW recently.

A society that is wealthier but with greater levels of inequality is likely to do worse on a wide range of social indicators than a poorer but more equitable society.

Karl Barth said, “To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world.” Matt Anslow discusses the public significance of prayer in protests.

A society that is wealthier but with greater levels of inequality is likely to do worse on a wide range of social indicators than a poorer but more equitable society.

A loving call to Western Christians to reflect upon what it means to be a member of a body that is often hard-pressed by travail and persecution.

Why is it that the legalisation of active euthanasia for competent adults with strict guidelines has so quickly led to the practice and eventually legalisation of active euthanasia for children and even (effectively) infants?