Upon entering university, what should the average tertiary student hope to learn? Ross McKenzie investigates.

(Ross McKenzie is a Professorial Research Fellow in the Department of Physics at the University of Queensland.)

An address given at the Annual Academic Awards Dinner, Cromwell College, University of Queensland, August 22, 2006.

Thank you for this opportunity to reflect a little on academic life. It is good to acknowledge achievement, not

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Hear Greg Clarke speak on the topic of "Is Atheism dying in the 21st century?" as part of Campus Bible Study’s Jesus Ain’t a Dirty Word mission event.

Free download (4.2 MB; 31 min approx).

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John Dickson gives us a summary of all we need to know about the Gospel of Judas

• We’ve known of the existence of a ‘Gospel of Judas’ ever since Bishop Irenaeus toward the end of the second century made reference to a newly devised Gospel designed to cast Judas as the hero of the faith (and all the other apostles as ill-informed).
• The sole manuscript copy of the Gospel of Judas was discovered in Egypt in the mid-1970s.
• The manuscript itself dates

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Does the Bible ban interest? …and so what if it does?

On August 15, 2006, Dr Michael Schluter (former World Bank consultant and founder of Britain’s Relationship Foundation) presented a CASE lecture in which he explored the Bible’s teaching on interest and the relationship between economics and Christianity.

How should we approach understanding what the Bible says about interest? Firstly, it is important to keep in mind taht Christianity is a

A re-make of the classic horror film highlights the problematic apologetic opportunities afforded by the genre.

There’s a Quit Smoking ad on Sydney buses doing the rounds at the moment: a cigarette that metamorphoses into a foot, some toes of which have rotted off due to gangrene, a side-effect of a smoking-related disease. The intent is threateningly didactic: this is what can happen if you smoke, so stop it.

The same purpose could be attributed

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