Mockingbird blog publish an excerpt from This American Gospel. It deals with the story of Rick and Heidi Solomon, and their adoption of a Romanian orphan, and all the dysfunctions and disorders that came with it. Their adopted son, Daniel, has what’s called “attachment disorder,” which psychologically means he can’t empathize, and thus can’t love …

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An interesting part of the High Court’s decision that the Federal Government’s funding of the National Chaplaincy Scheme was invalid was the dismissal of the component which argued that the scheme was invalid on the basis of the constitutional prohibition against the Commonwealth employing people on the basis of a religious test. I thought that …

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