An Obadiah Slope column Late night Marr: A lively interview on ABC Radio’s Late Night Live, now helmed by David Marr, opened up fascinating questions on sexuality and self-responsibility. Marr interviewed Paul Kane, an Australian-philic American poet who is an… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope column Readers will probably think Obadiah is stating the perfectly obvious, but no score on a personality test is an excuse for constantly picking a fight. Here’s an example of a Christian minister who thinks differently. Over… Continue Reading
Obadiah has joined the “Churches in South Australia” Facebook group, where people post pictures of churches. And that’s where the name William Kingsnorth Mallyon came up. He was a bank manager with the National Bank, but as a peripatetic worker,… Continue Reading
Writing during World War Two, George Orwell, despite being a man of the left had begun to see the depths of self-deception that even the smartest people are capable of because of his experiences in the Spanish Civil War. Despite… Continue Reading
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