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
An Obadiah Slope Column Let the little Children go free: Five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos, who was arrested and placed in detention by ICE agents in Minnesota last month, has been freed by a federal district court judge. The image of the… Continue Reading
Not so barmy: Paul Roe, who goes by the excellent moniker the Outback Historian, posted a thoughtful comment about the Barmy Army, who faithfully barracked for England in the Ashes tests. “It probably slipped by most cricket followers that at… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope Column A computer crash: Obadiah was worried back when he worked for Bible Society when the project to rebuild the website, point of sales, warehousing inventory, and book buying systems of the Koorong bookselling operation was launched,… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope column The Ultimate NDA: Obadiah appreciates good irony. The Anglican Samizdat site in Canada reports on the ultimate Non-disclosure agreement. The Anglican church in Canada has held a couple of meetings to discuss banning the use of… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope Column Sure you can do something: The NSW Government says, “We are calling on people of all faiths and all communities across NSW, to come together in the wake of the terrorist attack at Bondi on Sunday,… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope Column So glad you are here: Christmas, the real Christmas, can be found in commercial or secular places, and it lifts Obadiah’s Spirits as he comes across a little part of the Christmas story when he is… Continue Reading