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Ramona Koval Ten days before Christmas and the usual carols, jolly Santas and decorated trees colour my local Balaclava shopping strip in inner Melbourne. But this year they coincide with the aftermath of the terrorist attack on the nearby Adass Israel Synagogue...

Stan Grant Winston Churchill supposedly said democracy is the worst form of government, apart from all the others. In fact, Churchill was attributing that inanity to some unnamed source. In any case, it is facile and far too often repeated. I have heard it...

Stan Grant In his 19th-century masterpiece War and Christianity , Vladimir Solovyov creates a conversation between five fellow Russians, debating the soul of their nation. They meet on the cusp of a new age that would be marked by revolution, war and suffering...

Stan Grant I believe I have seen one of the faces of evil. A decade ago, in the mountains of the Afghanistan–Pakistan border, I sat with a man arrested for capturing, abusing and brainwashing children to turn them into suicide bombers. With his soft voice and...

Stan Grant Before he died, novelist Cormac McCarthy told physicist Lawrence Krauss there was no poetry today. McCarthy believed science had obliterated poetry. How could poetry compete with the beauty and brutality of mathematics? Science has bent the horizon...

Stan Grant The morning after the tragedy at Bondi Junction, I was in my church to ask God how such crimes are possible. Why does evil exist in the world? Why do the innocent suffer? How could we speak of forgiveness to the grieving families entitled to their...