Charles Brammall The Final CUT Lights up. A woman lies on a gurney. She is fifty years old. Thirty-one years earlier she murdered another young woman. She has spent more than three decades on death row, much of it in… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope Column Mushrooming: Obadiah has a confession – he has not been a big fan of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney’s Circular Quay: too many video installations for his curmudgeonly tastes. He has a modified earworm:… Continue Reading
Charles Brammall The Bible, tradition, experience, and our logic seem to be disquietingly clear- we are saved by works alone, and not by works. But then there’s Milano. Ahh… Milano. My wife’s aunt, a retired fashion model, lives in Milano.… Continue Reading
Richard Ostling via Religion Unplugged (ANALYSIS) So claims the cover headline on The Atlantic magazine’s August edition. The subheadline inside asks, “Can Civilization Survive the Postliterate Era?” This 8,700-word blockbuster by staff writer Rose Horowitch (paywalled here) says Americans are… Continue Reading
There’s a great anecdote in the introduction to Moore College’s Tony Payne’s new book, Let the Word Dwell Richly: The vital power of the one-another word, that explains the reason for the book. “I recently heard two separate comments that support this diagnosis. First, ‘at the yacht… Continue Reading
Professor Joanna Howe and her husband Jack’s discussion on consent included his clumsy wording: “I do marriage, man. Like, I don’t, I don’t do consent.” The wording left room for doubt about whether they believe consent should precede sexual activity in… Continue Reading
OPINION LANGUAGE WARNING Comments by Professor Joanna Howe and her husband, Jack Howe, about the consent programs in schools led by Chantal Contos’ campaigning against abuse of girls by male students have led to a lot of media commentary and… Continue Reading
A warning from the right: US Syndicated Radio host and a sometime Reformed Theological Seminary student Erick Erickson on Substack: “A group of white guys have subtly inserted themselves into conservative institutions and church organisations. They all embrace racial grievances. To varying degrees,… Continue Reading
New anti-conversion laws have caused eight churches in Dhamtari city in Chhattisgarh state in India, to restrict non-Christians from attending by warning them they enter at their own risk. “In banners displayed outside their premises, the churches said people from other… Continue Reading
My lovely first cousin “J”, with whom I spent 100s of joyful hours growing up, is a Protestant lass who married a Jewish chap. She has converted to Judaism herself. They have raised their 3 lovely kids Jewish and celebrate… Continue Reading