Michael Bird has contributed a ripping opinion piece to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Religion and Ethics page. It is entitled School chaplains: The real issue isn’t separation of church and state and features much typical insight and humour which are typical of Bird. I’m sure the comments section will flow with outrage. A taste: If …

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The Australian Federal Government, as part of its commitment to extend funding for the National School Chaplaincy Program (in both duration and scope) until December 2014 undertook to a process of national consultation to review the program. The discussion paper for the review has just been released and submissions about the program are open until …

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