Charles Brammall An important new development has emerged in Boyd studies this year. 2026 has brought unusually revealing curatorial research into Boyd’s religious imagination, although there is no new scholarly study (that I have found) establishing whether he personally professed… Continue Reading
Charles Brammall on how God Fosters Jodie Recent Academic scholarship has increasingly treated Jodie Foster not merely as a famous actress, but as a significant cultural figure through whom questions about gender, childhood, and authorship are examinable. Through whom Questions… 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
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
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