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In Search of the Creator

The director of Disney’s benchmark Star Wars spin-off, Rogue One, has come back from a galaxy far, far away to tell a new tale...
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Caught in the Crowd

Would you consider yourself a good person? I want you to be truly honest with yourself. Looking at your relationships, values, actions, thoughts and...
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Our Preoccupation With Death

I was scrolling through my phone’s app store one day when I saw something that left me bemused. It was an exercise monitor for...
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Hollywood’s Disability

When the doctor first told my wife and I that our son was going to be born with a disability, I was uncommonly brave....
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Desmond Tutu: A Prophetic Voice of Hope

It was a fleeting meeting, but one that left an impression on me. Living in Norway in 2001, it was the centennial celebration of...
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The Origins of Mother’s Day

Have you heard the story of the woman who inspired the creation of the celebration we now know as “Mother’s Day”? Ann Jarvis was...
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Welcome to the Sex Recession

Less sex? What? Surely not. Like many others I shared this news with, you might be surprised and slightly sceptical to hear this. How...
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THE CHOSEN: A CALL TO SOMETHING DIFFERENT

I have a complex relationship with Christian media. Don’t get me wrong—as someone who genuinely believes an encounter with Jesus Christ can be life-changing,...
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Flat Earth theory in the middle ages

Is the idea that people believed the Earth was flat in the middle ages truth or a carefully spun fantasy?
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The Last of Us: The Gamer’s Good Samaritan

Video games have become the birthplace of some dubious film and television adaptations. The more successful the franchise, it seems the further the fall...
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Gambling’s dark underbelly

How about this filly in the fifth fellas, put a $50 on it?” Those were the words of retired American NBA player Shaquille O’Neal...
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Bevvies without the Buzz

As the balmy Australian summer took a chilly turn, I found myself sitting one day in a pub in Jindabyne, New South Wales with...