Charles Brammall As Chaplain at a Roman Catholic Aged Care facility, I was often asked by loved ones to perform the Last Rites over a dying (or even deceased) relative. This was to ensure they didn’t die (or go to… Continue Reading
Dolly Rebecca Parton Dean (January 19, 1946 – August 25, 2026) Charles Brammall Each of our kids has their own songs, “Son of a Preacher Man”, “Little Ray of Sunshine”, a US3 song I can’t find anymore, and “Baba O’Reilly”… Continue Reading
Charles Brammall When I first met my (Filippino) wife, I was surprised to discover she was Conservative Evangelical rather than Roman Catholic, the former a tiny minority in the “Land of a Thousand Islands” (actually 7641 islands). Biblical Christianity has… Continue Reading
Charles Brammall Many years ago my young family and I had a farm stay holiday on Hugh Fraser’s Mohair Goat farm near Inverell. Hugh and his wife were lovely, and he kindly gifted me with a high quality Leatherman in… Continue Reading
Charles Brammall “Our God is a consuming fire.” We live 5 minutes from the Sydney suburb of Oatlands. Oatlands couple Danny and Leila Abdallah made headlines globally for their public forgiveness towards the driver who struck and killed three of their children… Continue Reading
Charles Brammall on Mother Teresa It happened in a convent meeting, not in front of TV cameras or Nobel committees, but behind the closed doors of the Missionaries of Charity. A young sister had spent months organising practical improvements for… Continue Reading
Part two of Charles Brammall’s series on annihilationism If John Stott had spent his career as an eccentric theologian on the fringes of evangelicalism, his remarks about annihilationism would probably have attracted little notice. Evangelical history contains no shortage of… Continue Reading
Charles Brammall Pt 1- When One of Evangelicalism’s Most Trusted Voices Asks an Uncomfortable Question. Some controversies arise because someone deliberately sets out to challenge the church. Others because someone whom almost everyone trusts quietly admits that they are no… Continue Reading
Charles Brammall I am a bit of a Victor Hugo tragic. I have been to his home in Paris and taken photos of many of the paintings there. Some of them are breathtaking and quite odd. My wife and I… Continue Reading
Charles Brammall In 1994, in a small Rwandan town, a lady called Immaculée Ilibagiza hid in a 3 x 4 foot bathroom in a pastor’s house with seven other women, for 91 days, during the Genocide. Outside, neighbours, and people she had grown up… Continue Reading