An Obadiah Slope Column Good job: A headline, “Bishops welcome minimum wage increase,” is on the Catholic Weekly site. Would one find it on an Anglican site? If not, why not, Obadiah asks. The Catholic Weekly story reveals that, acting… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope column Obadiah lives in a narrow street. Maybe that is why this story caught his eye: How many cars parked in your street for a church meeting are too many? That issue has blown up in the… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope column Not a calf, but maybe a lot of bull: A MAGA pastor explained that this statute at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club is definitely not a Golden calf after he was criticised for dedicating it. Pastor Mark Burns,… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope column. The Saturday Paper might be an unlikely place for good news about a Bible College, some readers of this blog might think. But here’s an insight into Darwin’s Nungalinya College in a review of an Architectural… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope column From the White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooter’s manifesto: “Objection 1: As a Christian, you should turn the other cheek. “Rebuttal: Turning the other cheek is for when you yourself are oppressed. I’m not the person raped in a… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope Column Listening to the ABC PEP (Planet Extra Podcast) takes the Christian virtue of perseverance, as it often runs three hours. But perseverence yields real gems.The latest is “correspondence” from Dr Andrew Judd from Ridley College, offering… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope column To the Newcastle Writers’ Festival, where The Mushroom Tapes authors Helen Garner, Chloe Hooper, and Sarah Krasnostein show a respect for the Baptist beliefs of the victim families in the Erin Patterson case. With a generally… Continue Reading
Might and right: Fleming Rutledge- writer of a great book The Crucifixion, tels Christianity Today the one lesson from the gospel is the worldly might is not right. “ I’ve noticed that a number of people, most famously Tom Holland, have written… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope Column Wise words from Stan Grant: “We should also take heed of the way we talk about human beings. All of us. “Another hallmark of the 20th century was the mass displacement and movement of people. Governments… Continue Reading
Making Christianity illegal: A revealing Facebook post – the sort thats quite rare popped up for Obadiah. “Oklahoma Senate Bill 1554 (Burns, Prieto, Grellner) …. has been introduced, making it a felony for a church to feed, clothe or give… Continue Reading