Thoughts on faith, culture, and public life.
Soundings No. 1 – 21 Sep 2005 We learned yesterday that a new judge was on their way to the High Court. Federal Attorney-General Philip Ruddock announced the appointment of Victorian judge Justice Susan Maree Crennan to replace retiring judge Michael McHugh in November.This is the fifth Howard government appointment to the Court’s seven-member bench, and …
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Launched today, my website has a new title and tagline. The philosophy of life driving my writing remains constant, and all the archived content remains accessible. We will add to the historical record over time, as well as releasing new material every week. The new title All Told is an invitation to pause, take stock, listen for …
Father Zossima is the wise old monk who forms the spiritual centre of gravity in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s last and greatest novel, The Brothers Karamazov, published in 1880. On his deathbed, Zossima recalls how, as a boy in church, he was deeply moved as he watched incense rising from a censer to meet a ray of sunlight high …
Joshua chapters 3 and 4 describe how Israel crossed the Jordan River into the land of Canaan. More about the ethics of that next week. After forty years sequestered in the desert as virtual nomads, the people stand on the banks of the Jordan River. Behind them lies a generation shaped by slavery, exodus, testing, and …
In a cupboard in heavenstands a big old bucketinto which God poursour suffering and painand sadnessand all the coloursof our helplessness and out of which he takesdeep draughts every daydraining, drawing its terriblerainbow profusioninto his heart and drinking, hearswords uttered long agoby his own crackedlips: “I thirst!”and the crucial echo in thatGod-forsaken wastethe declaration:“Finished!” and from …
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