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
Charles Brammall There are words that begin as lightning and only later reveal they were once furniture. Repent is one of them. Let’s wander momentarily back into etymology and ancient languages- and return, rather sheepishly, to the word itself. Once, repent was a… Continue Reading
Charles Brammall In 1980, some elderly Aussies travelled to England and forked over $23,000AUD (£12,000) for a one ton (1000 kg) copper, bronze and steel, actual church bell. They couldn’t buy it off the shelf, but had to commissioned it… Continue Reading
Charles Brammall Alice, who had quite given up trying to keep her thoughts in straight lines (for they persisted in curtsying to one another and wandering off mid-sentence), found herself once more in Professor Lewis Carroll’s (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson’s) Oxford Don-like… Continue Reading
Charles Brammall Lorraine Daphne Bayly, born 1937 in Narrandera, NSW, is best known as Grace Sullivan in the classic Aussie drama series The Sullivans (76–79) and as Jennifer Carson in Carson’s Law. Lorraine died last week at 89 in a care home in Sydney. The… Continue Reading
Charles Brammall We once took our young kids to a gold panning lesson in NW Vic. The chap who taught us was a lovely, humble fellow. As we chatted, it came out that as a newborn, he was cradled by… Continue Reading