(RNS) — The sensei said this is the first time the Zen Center has memorialized an AI companion, but he doesn’t foresee it being the last.

Chopra’s friendship with Epstein is dismaying, in part for what it says about the spiritual and wellness culture he exemplifies.

Thousands converged in Los Angeles for the Conscious Life Expo, where influencers and cultural shifts are fueling cosmic belief systems often featuring extraterrestrials.

There are cultural events that entertain, and there are rare ones that reorganise how a society encounters ideas. The Jaipur Literature Festival is the latter. Founded in 2006 by Namita Gokhale, Willi...

I did not spend my 20s protesting a regime using violence to silence its critics just to spend my 70s watching Australian governments do the same.

The Australian described the 85-minute movie as being worth five minutes of your time, so went to see for ourselves.

A failed bomb attack in Perth on Invasion Day drew little attention from the media and public. It shows Australia has long been selective in its sense of danger.

A civil rights organization said it received calls from multiple defense contractors perplexed by a religious invitation to the Pentagon.

We’ve heard calls not only to investigate how the Bondi massacre occurred but to place universities, protest movements and migrants under suspicion.

After the shootings at Bondi on the first day of Chanukah, some have claimed the actions of the gunman had “nothing to do with religion”, whereas others insist they were “all about religion” — both cl...

Trump’s wrecking-ball approach to America has a precedent: the evangelical perversion of Jesus’s message of radical love to one of hate and aggression

We live in momentous times. History podcasts and books are more popular than ever. So why is academic history in crisis?

From empire critique to Sabbath rest, Brueggemann’s writing called us to a more courageous, liberated Christianity.

Though Musk promised modernization and efficiency, what’s left is a trail of uncertainty and reduced functionality

Salgado produced technically flawless, mesmerising images of some of the world’s harshest realities, from the gold mines of Brazil to the horror of the Rwandan genocide.

Formal coalition agreement ending after breakdown in talks with Liberal leader Sussan Ley

On election night, the prime minister talked about ‘fairness’ and ‘Australian values’. To legally protect those values, we need a national human rights act.

An network of Australian Christian groups have adapted the language of global right-wing populism to amplify their influence on Australian politics.

The differing and diverse religious beliefs Australians hold will influence their vote this election.

This article examines how the intersection between the Christian Right and populism takes shape in Australia. It analyses how Australian Christian Right (ACR) actors mobilise the ideology, rhetoric...

No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue

The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

Researchers receive memo notifying ‘temporary’ funding pause prompting push for Australian government to pursue European partnerships

Journalists have protested their media outlets’ decisions to run the Trumpet of Patriots ads. They were right to do so.

Elon Musk claims empathy is a weakness of Western civilisation. Perhaps he fears a more hopeful view of human nature.

The Lebanese Australian artist, and curator Michael Dagostino say they are ‘extremely hurt’ by Creative Australia’s decision

Photo of the State Library of South Australia by Vlad Kutepov on Unsplash The following essays are reprinted and adapted on Canopy Forum in collaboration with the journal, Australian Journal of Law an...

Despite a seven-year planning process and successfully securing the funding, the Czech Republic’s dam plans went nowhere. Until the animal workers arrived.

Confusing and capricious, he started as he means to go on. To all the leaders pledging to work with him: good luck with that, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde