Society & Culture

  • Finding Truth in the Age of Deepfakes
    Finding Truth in the Age of Deepfakes

    Nathan Tasker

    New technology is allowing ultra-realistic renderings of people’s faces and voices into videos where they are not present. What was once a harmless joke now has the potential to unsettle the world.

  • The Final Divide
    The Final Divide

    Daniel Kuberek

    Bitter tensions between the political left and right are leaving people concerned about the future. Who can bring unity?

  • The Dark Side of Onlyfans
    The Dark Side of Onlyfans

    Caitlin Jankiewicz

    The subscriber-only website is best known for its amateur pornography content. But, as people sell their naked photos for large sums of money, they’re also selling themselves short.

  • Competition vs cooperation in a crisis
    Competition vs cooperation in a crisis

    Mark Delaney

    The natural human impulse is to bunker down and look out for Number One when times get tough. But is that actually the most effective response?

  • Public fame, private shame
    Public fame, private shame

    Mark Hadley

    Should we judge public figures by their private behaviour? And, asks Mark Hadley, what does this dissection of others’ misdemeanours reveal about the darkness in our own hearts?

  • Seeking a good death: The challenge of legalised euthanasia
    Seeking a good death: The challenge of legalised euthanasia

    Bruce Manners

    Victoria is on track to allow doctor-assisted suicide from next year. New Zealand is not far behind. Bruce Manners examines the issue.

  • Obsession about possessions
    Obsession about possessions

    Brendan Pratt

    Consumerism threatens to destroy us and our world, warns Brendan Pratt. Here’s what we can do about it.

  • Reaching for the summit
    Reaching for the summit

    Julene Duerksen-Kapao

    Life is an uphill battle for many marginalised young people in New Zealand, particularly Māori. But educator Julene Duerksen-Kapao has big dreams for these kids and is committed to walking alongside them, one step at a time.

  • The view from the cross
    The view from the cross

    Charles Mills

    Charles Mills reflects on what—and who—Jesus saw as He hung crucified between heaven and earth.

  • Godless nation?
    Godless nation?

    Bruce Manners

    More Aussies than ever say they’re not religious, but the evidence doesn’t show they’re hardcore atheists either, says Bruce Manners.

  • Passover: Why is this night different?
    Passover: Why is this night different?

    Bob Mendelsohn

    It’s no accident that Christian Easter and Jewish Passover occur around the same time every year. These ancient festivals are inextricably linked, explains Bob Mendelsohn, and perhaps even in ways that most Jews and Christians don’t understand.

  • Ethical consumption and the gospel
    Ethical consumption and the gospel

    Jonathan Cornford

    Jonathan Cornford says that Western society is standing at the crossroads where the crisis of the church and the crisis of the world meet

  • Hard luck
    Hard luck

    Miguel Valdivia

    While regulators ignore appeals from the grassroots, the gambling industry continues to gobble up profits. All just harmless fun? Don’t bet on it.

  • Christmas: time of despair or symbol of hope?
    Christmas: time of despair or symbol of hope?

    Errol Webster

    Sex, violence and suicide. Why you should think about these topics this Christmas.

  • Jesus the Gift
    Jesus the Gift

    Bjorn Karlman

    Bjorn Karlman reflects on Jesus’ descent from heaven to earth to live and die among us, from the point of view of the father of a two-year-old.

  • You will not have my hate
    You will not have my hate

    Nick Mattiske

    To "not hate" isn't to love. The former leaves one indifferent; the latter brings about lasting change.

  • Gift of the century
    Gift of the century

    Loren Seibold

    Our society increasingly measures people by the value of their possessions, but there’s an alternative that’s much better.

  • Hope amid the violence
    Hope amid the violence

    Clifford Goldstein

    Violence, oppression and inequality are part and parcel of today's world. How are we to cope with this scary, new normal?

  • Book review: James K A Smith: You Are What You Love
    Book review: James K A Smith: You Are What You Love

    Nick Mattiske

    In You Are What You Love, James K A Smith reminds us that spirituality concerns what we value most, and we show what we value even when we are not thinking about it by how we spend our lives.

  • Overheard: August 2016
    Overheard: August 2016

    * Multiple Authors

    Overheard a worthy food-for-thought quote? Share it at info@signsofthetimes.org.au.

  • Go Healthy For Good  - July 2016
    Go Healthy For Good - July 2016

    Nerida Mckibben

    Nerida McKibben is the host of HopeChannel’s health and wellness show, Go Healthy For Good. To find out more, go to www.hop.ec/gohealthyforgood.

  • Overheard: July 2016
    Overheard: July 2016

    * Multiple Authors

    Overheard a worthy food-for-thought quote? Share it at info@signsofthetimes.org.au.

  • Overheard: June 2016
    Overheard: June 2016

    * Multiple Authors

    Overheard a worthy food-for-thought quote? Share it at info@signsofthetimes.org.au.

  • Be the master of your money
    Be the master of your money

    Bruce Manners

    How can we make money work for us? How do we become its master?

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