By Charles Brammall Surely the lyric of this song on “The Endless Wire” album (one of their best) answers this question: “Two Thousand Years” “Two Thousand YearsHave I waitedTo ask if I have loved youTo know if I have served… Continue Reading
Charles Brammall on being a chaplain in the entertainment industry Our evangelistic and pastoral relationship with the adult industry (a vexed one) was never planned. I was asking Artarmon shopkeepers if we could put up posters for SPLAT (the Artarman… Continue Reading
Charles Brammall The election of Bishop Ric Thorpe to lead Melbourne’s Anglicans as their new Archbishop marks a further advance towards an evangelical majority in the Anglican Church of Australia. This is a major transformation in a denomination that… Continue Reading
Charles Brammall “Hercule-an” English actor David Courtney Suchet is best known as the ridiculously curly-waxed moustachioed Hercule Poirot in “Agatha Christie’s Poirot” from ‘89 to 2013. For this he received international acclaim and the 1991 British Academy Television Best Actor… Continue Reading
Charles Brammall I showed “The Truman Show” to my year 12 English kids this week, a rare end of term treat. It’s several decades since I saw it, and I was captivated. As were they. It viscerally and existentially moving,… Continue Reading
Charles Brammall on the toll of working as a chaplain in the entertainment industry I was working at Sculpture by the Sea when I sadly encountered the first of six people over the ENTER years who took their lives, attempted… Continue Reading
By Charles Brammall I grew up at a Methodist (then Uniting), church, going twice a week from when I was in utero. Mum’s slightly old fashioned, 50s, but delightfully evangelical greeting to all us on Easter Day was always “He… Continue Reading
Charles Brammall rabbits on about Easter. I didn’t grow up going to church on Good Friday- it wasn’t part of my denomination’s expression of piety. But for the last few years I have started going along with my wife, and… Continue Reading
Charles Brammall farewells a mighty voice. He of the mellifluous, honeyed, euphonious voice, actor James Earl Jones starred in such classics as “Hunt for Red October”; he was the voice of Darth Vader in “Star Wars”, and Mufassa in “Lion… Continue Reading
Charles Brammall on serving a stressful industry through ENTER, a entertainment ministry Employment in acting is notoriously difficult to get, and completely unpredictable. There is an infinitesimally small number of jobs compared to the number of artists looking. During the… Continue Reading