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
Uplifting news: Rapture prophecies are like buses, you are waiting and then several come all in a row. Whether it is the eclipse playing on American minds or not, currently there appears to be a season of rapture timelines. Here’s… Continue Reading
Life in a Northern Town: An mournful store of a church closure comes from possibly an unlikely source, the New Statesman magazine the intellectual chronicler of the British Labour Party. “The church itself, built in red brick by the United… Continue Reading
Baptist Irony: the campaign against Covid vaccination mandates popped up again in the wake of a court case that found that the Queensland police had not correctly set up their covid rules. The Other Cheek reported on the reaction of… Continue Reading