When the USA sneezes…
… the rest of the world catches a cold. This is probably why it’s difficult to find a dispassionate news report on the US debt crisis. The most objective one on my newsfeed is from the UK – US debt...
View ArticleJumping to conclusions and landing on our faces…
Image by matthewvenn via Flickr We are quick to name the culprits if there’s a possibility of reinforcing our prejudices. Two instances are apparent today: the London riots – in this far flung outpost...
View ArticleCHOGM and Prayer
Looks like stranded CHOGM delegates no longer have to sing “We still call Australia home” and can now board their Qantas flights to their destinations. The streets of Perth are returning to normal and...
View ArticleRequiem for Shooty
Image by .M. via Flickr Thomas Keneally, Australian author, has written an open letter to ‘Shooty’ whose despair under incarceration led to an untimely death. Read it at Sri Lankan Asylum Seeker...
View ArticlePeace is possible
Image via Wikipedia It’s one of those days of convergence again. I finalised an article for the local community paper – “200 words on what Christmas means to you as a local clergy person.” I rattled...
View ArticleIs it ever OK to humanise notorious figures?
Image via Wikipedia The twin cinematic retrospectives on the careers of Hoover and Thatcher, both notorious conservatives that packed a lot of clout in recent Western history, invite this question....
View ArticleNew asylum seeker campaign ‘distasteful’ and ‘embarrassing’
New asylum seeker campaign ‘distasteful’ and ‘embarrassing’. Just when you think the Australian Government can do no worse in its cruel and dispiriting treatment of maritime asylum seekers, it pulls...
View ArticleThoughts on Current Political Discourse
Today I am distracted by the Clinton/Trump debate. It’s running in the background while I attend to some other desk chores. Political discourse tends to glaze my eyes these days – we’ve had so much...
View ArticleWooing the one who jilted you …
Who would want to? The Hebrew prophet Hosea – that’s who! Initially, he nurses the pain of anger when Gomer leaves him for a polyamorous dalliance with others. The patriarchal law of his time and place...
View ArticleTroubled times … fresh resources.
“Crisis always comes with opportunity,” suggests the Chinese pictogram. How this relates to the current ascension of the greed of the few and the corresponding upward spiral of cost to the many is...
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