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
Charles Brammall Characteristically lofty Netherlands American Richard Van Dyke is 100 years and 2 months old. Dick has a long history of relying on Jesus, having been raised Presbyterian (gotta love ‘em😌), and actively involved in church life for many… Continue Reading
Imagine this scenario: A little boy, I’ll call him Ali, born in Raqqa, once told an aid worker he had learnt to count by tallying airstrikes. His father had pledged allegiance to so-called Islamic State. His mother queued for bread… Continue Reading
Charles Brammall remembers Robert Duvall (1931 – 2016) Born between tides and uniforms, with navy father always departing, mother praying over maps and oceans,and a boy who said he was: “aimless, without distinction,”as if the Spirit of holiness sometimes hides… Continue Reading
Charles Brammall Rev Jesse Jackson (18 Oct 1941- 17 Feb 2026)Christian, US Civil rights activist & former Shadow US Senator, An ontological quandary clings to certain men as if a second shadow. If he builds his identity on proximity to greatness,… Continue Reading
Charles Brammall 48-year-old Dutch-American “Dawson’s Creek” leading man James Van Der Beek passed away on Wednesday. His life was characterised by Love, Loss, & Spiritual Awakening: “I don’t think I knew what it was to slow down before… to really… Continue Reading