Chalking: Co-founder of Eternity newspaper, David Maegraith, thinks it’s time we saw Eternity chalked on our streets once more. But this time, the epicentre will be Adelaide. “It’s been decades since Arthur Stace chalked Eternity around Sydney, so I thought… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope column How can you tell? “The PCA is not racist” is how US Anglican writer Anne Kennedy signs off a strong rebuke of David French, New York Times columnist who Obadiah is as sure as you can… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope column C. S. Lewis’ puddle: In “The Weight of Glory,” C. S. Lewis mentions that we are like children, happy to splash about in mud puddles even though we’ve been offered a holiday at sea. Christian preaching… Continue Reading
Union dues: It was a pressured day in The Sydney Morning Herald newsroom, as it was during a strike. “You don’t like being here, do you?” one of the paper’s deputy editors asked. “Your making that obvious.” It was Obadiah’s… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope column Two Obadiahs: Obadiah found himself listening to Obadiah singing. Let Obadiah explain that he was in the Opera House at a massive choir performance of Elijah, an oratorio (another word for a big choral production) by… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope column In a famous essay, ‘Such such were the Joys’ about the terrible boarding school he was sent to as an eight-year-old, George Orwell makes this statement about two contrasting aims of the school. “Broadly you were… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope column Let’s hear it for evensong: It was a busy evening – evensong for ascension day in the cathedral, then onto a play – that turned out to be a study of contrast.At Evensong, we prayed for a… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope Column Photo search: Anglican Futures, a website run by Susie and Dan Leafe, English evangelicals who are fed up with the Church of England have been busy doing a spot of photo analysis. This is the pic… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope column Now that Scott Morrison’s memoir Plans for Your Good: A Prime Minister’sTestimony of God’s Faithfulness has been given a more than decent plug in The Weekend Australian, the book’s readership has been given more of a… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope column. Textbook acts: A few days apart, two Sydney bishops, one Anglican and another from an independent church, did what bishops should do—pointed us to Jesus. One made headlines, the other didn’t. You may not have heard… Continue Reading