JJ Brits

Russell Blackford is an interesting and talented Australian academic with broad interests and qualifications in different fields. Dr Russell Blackford is a Conjoint Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Newcastle in New...

An article written by Francis Sullivan for The Guardian, published on 12 January 2023 A link to the original article: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/commentisfree/2023/jan/12/george-pells-death-symbolises-the-demise-of-a-church-out-of-touch-and-out-of-time A Few Comments by JJ Brits The death of Cardinal George Pell on 10 Jan 2023...

On this day 191 years ago (on 27 December 1831) the HMS Beagle, under the command of the 26-year-old Captain Robert Fitzroy, set sail from Plymouth, England to survey the South American coastline and...

On this day 26 years ago (on 20 Dec 1996) one of the outstanding secular thinkers and ambassadors for science died much too soon from complications of a rare bone marrow disease at the...

On this day 57 years ago, on 7 December 1965, the Catholic Church finally accepted Freedom of Religion as official doctrine, at the 4th Session of the Second Vatican Council (with 70 votes against...

Some Christians honestly feel that it takes faith to become an atheist, more faith than to be Christian. This really puzzled me, so I set out to understand this mindset and where it comes...

Bart Ehrman celebrated his 67th birthday a few days ago. He is the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a well-known New...