A review of Life of Pi by Yann Martel and Dirt Music by Tim Winton.

The Booker Prize for literature is not usually accompanied by theological proclamations, but 2002 was different. The Booker is given each year to what is judged as the best work of contemporary fiction by a writer from the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland. In 2002, it was won by Life of Pi, written by Yann Martel, a previously obscure writer who begins his novel with an

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The French novelist-philosopher Albert Camus is known for his atheism and his philosophy of the absurd. But just before his death at the age of 47, had he discovered the God who makes sense of it all? Greg Clarke investigates.

Camus did not like being called an existentialist. Despite his objection, Camus’s name, along with his contemporary Jean-Paul Sartre, is closely associated with the movement whose view of life is readily summarized in the

Professor of Education, Trevor Cairney responds to the proposed reforms to higher education in Australia.

Unless you’ve been overseas for the last year you will have heard that the federal minister for education, Dr Brendan Nelson, has been reviewing higher education. Education (like health) has always been an important political agenda. While all Australians receive school education, not all are privileged to gain a place in university education.

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How does a scholar’s faith commitment affect how she or he teaches and researches? Should there be a connection. Trevor Cairney reviews his own career in education through the lens of his Christian faith.

One of the aims of CASE is to challenge Christian scholars to consider more fully the relationship of faith to their scholarship. In doing this CASE encourages the expression of views across a wide range of fields of study that are informed by

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