An Obadiah Slope column The spelling of Türkiye/Turkey: One Facebooker recently asked, “Why are we now calling Turkey Türkiye? Do we now call France Francais and Germany Deutschland?” It is a fair question with a reasonably straightforward answer. They asked.… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope column Two ex-CEOs: NSW’s CEO Josh Landis lost his job yesterday because he attacked NSW premier Dominic Perrottet’s religion, talking of Perrottet’s “conservative Catholic gut” as the reason for the Premier supporting cashless pokies. Last year Andrew… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope column 50 shades of they: The chief sub-editor is the person who rules on grammar in a newspaper. The Sydney Morning Herald’s chief sub, Michael Ruffles, has written “Mansplaining pronouns for obstinate blokes,” which is alive-and-let-livee argument.… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope column. Obadiah grew up suspicious of culture. We were not a big movie-going family, for example. And television only crept into the household after an older brother bought his own TV. Until then, it was half an… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope column Unique: The Los Angeles Animal Care and Control Department knew exactly what to do when 10-year-old Madeleine wrote to them asking for a Unicorn license, “In case I find one.” They sent her a “pre-approved license’… Continue Reading
Obadiah Slope writes about four cautionary tales. Sorry, this column is about politics. Those mosquito bites: Murray Campbell might be one of the most conservative Baptist ministers in Melbourne. The prolific blogger gave his readers a warning this week. There’s… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope Column The Libs do an ‘Essendon’: The expulsion of candidate Renee Harris from the Victorian Liberal party room by opposition leader Matthew Guy has some Christians suggesting it is a repeat of Andrew Thorburn being rejected by… Continue Reading
Good trivia: To a trivia night – a fundraiser for SRE (Special Religious Education) volunteer Bible teaching in schools in eastern Sydney, that filled a large-ish church hall at Holy Trinity Kingsford. It is a treasure of fifties architecture with… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope column An anti-Robin Hood budget: Whether you vote red green blue or teal, think the federal government is doing great or not, the Budget, unlike the Gospel is not good news for the poor. A 56 per… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope column The place to be this week: This column comes to you from Launceston, on which town Obadiah bestows the temporary name ‘Neurodiversity-Ville” – the Special Olympic national games are on in Town. Obadiah is a proud… Continue Reading