An Obadiah Slope column At the risk of offending those who think meeting places, aka churches, should be devoid of art, Obadiah was sitting in the chapel at Cabrini Hospital in Melbourne the other day. He has spent long days… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope Column Unfair: Why an unfair fight? Well, one of Canadian author and psychologist Jordan Peterson and Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at Oxford University, John Lennox, has the holy spirit, and the other doesn’t. We are weighing truth… Continue Reading
Re-lent: Canon Phillipa Lohmeyer-Collins preached at St Paul’s cathedral, Melbourne, on the “heart work” of Lent, which is the effort we owe in repentance. Lent, it strikes me as a person who attends a church which does not emphasise the… Continue Reading
Written up: Historian Simon Schama packed the Adelaide Town Hall for the big event in Writers Week, – a new experience for Obadiah. Despite being lobbied not to come, he defied fellow Zionists to come and addressed the topic of… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope column Georgian architecture and human struggle: Mrs Slope took Obadiah on an adventure usimg the new light rail (or tram for Melburnians) that snakes through Parramatta. The light rail made it easy to explore the old asylum… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope column Vale Dr Reason: Obadiah says let’s give thanks for psychologist Dr James Tootle Reason, the man who came up with the “swiss cheese model” of accident causation. He died this month on February 5, 2025, at… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope column Taking the plunge: Obadiah took his daughter to brunch yesterday. Reporting that family event might seem boring, but the choice of venue might be more interesting to patient readers. We went to “Plunge,” a cafe on… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope Column Reading Atlantic journalist Anne Applebaum’s book on Autocracy, Inc clarifies Obadiah’s thoughts on current events. She chronicled the communist takeover of Eastern Europe in Iron Curtain:The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944–1956, one of the best books… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope column Massively under-reported in the great south land: PresidentTrump signed an executive order on the design of Federal buildings: “I hereby direct the Administrator of the General Services Administration, in consultation with the Assistant to the President… Continue Reading
Conservative entropy: Right-wing radio host Eric Erickson is one US conservative, and he is extremely conservative, who has spotted the difference between conservatism and Trumpian populism. Wherever one is on the political spectrum (if there is still one), it is… Continue Reading