Interesting piece by John Dickson published by the Fairfax Press in the Sydney Morning Herald and the Age. “Despite the sceptics, there is real truth in the story of Christmas” Dickson responds to historically based criticisms of the Christmas narrative: “Maybe the whole thing is a fable with no more credibility than Santa Claus. And, …
So, a rare trip to the movies. Generally a movie has to have qualities that demand big screen viewing to get me to a cinema. Avatar certainly qualifies on that count. Living in Mount Gambier means that 3D is out of the question, though the movie would certainly look spectacular in that format. I don’t …
Mary MacKillop has been accredited with the necessary requirements to be recognised as a saint by the Roman Catholic church. She spent what seems to have been a brief, but formative, period of her life in Penola which is fifty kilometers north of Mount Gambier. It may not be known to folk outside Australia that …
I’ve had the following links floating around my feed-reader for a while now, but I did want to post them here. In Switzerland on November 29 a referendum proposing a ban on the construction of new minarets on mosques was passed. The popular vote outcome was 58% in favour while 42% opposed, with three-quarters of …
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