Australian ABC Radio National’s Encounter program has an episode featuring Australian military chaplains during World War 1. The program is available for listening at Encounter’s web page. Here’s the introduction: On the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, we focus on the men and women known affectionately as ‘padres’, chaplains who have …

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This seems so weird, but is based on the premise of being without company, phone, pen, paper, book, music or anything. The whole situation stands at odds with the observations about having too much to do or being overloaded with busyness. The very situation we contend plagues us, we’re actually addicted to. People apparently can’t …

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