An Obadiah Slope Column Anglicans so much better at cover-ups: Obadiah set through each day of the Brian Houston case, watching the accusation of cover-up fall apart. Now, having read and summarised the Makin report into the abuse committed by… Continue Reading
Sunday Bloody Sunday: To the Sydney Opera House’s Bowels (the drama theatre) to watch a very Melbourne play, Sunday. An artistic muse and social radical from the heart of the Melbourne establismnet Sunday Reed have always been a figure on… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope column Democracy lives: As I Left the school this week after a volunteer Scripture teaching lesson (SRE in NSW, RI in Qld), I realised that an election was afoot for the school SRC with an impressive array… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope column All the jazz: Obadiah’s district has been the site of a jazz boomlet, with live jazz or blues at Miss Celies – a bar, and regular gigs in the Polish club and the Catholic club. So… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope column Graham King, CMS missionary and CofE bishop’s, memoir is being serialised in the US-based Living Church magazine (And on his website) It is full of telling anecdotes, including this one: “I founded an open youth club in… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope column Okay, nokay? Obadiah does not know what this means but the last “full size’ K-mart in the US is shutting. So maybe “K-marting’ is something Australians do better. Actually, with their Anko brand, the local k-0mart… Continue Reading
Newcastle Anglicans Morpeth College and sexual abuse: Professor Patrick Parkinson significantly adds to what we know about the scandals of the Newcastle Anglican Diocese in an ABC Religion and Ethics review of Ann Manne’s book Crimes of the Cross. “I… Continue Reading
Kevin Williamson, a conservative writer in The Despatch written by people who lean right but despair of Trump, has written engagingly from Springfield, Ohio, on eating cats and dogs. Read his intro and enjoy: “SPRINGFIELD, Ohio—They come to Ohio from… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope column Britain is truly in decline: The Guardian sums up a crisis “When Liverpool’s Spellow Hub library was torched in this summer’s far-right riots, an appeal quickly raised more than £250,000 to restore the facility. That was testament to… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope column AI’s bias: Historian Stephen Chavura has done some useful contemporary research. AI “I just asked Meta to make up a joke about Jesus and a joke about Mohammed. This is what I got.” He posted on… Continue Reading