Back to the Border Watch after a colleague submitted an article while I was busy last week. This week’s article starts in reality TV and ends up with the Holy Spirit. It also makes use of a thought attributed to Simone Weil from this review by Peter Adam as one of its turning points. The …
This week’s article for The Border Watch is a response to the executions of Andrew Chan, Myuran Sukumaran and six others; along with the public reactions to the circumstances of their deaths. The paper titled this one ‘Forgiveness Needed To Break Cycles Of Retribution’. It is reported that eight voices, united in song in the …
This was submitted to The Border Watch as this week’s pastor’s article, but was not published in today’s edition. The darkness clings as we gather at the ANZAC Dawn Service, the trees in Vansittart Park further shrouding us. We are a silhouette of shadow, movements are few, voices hushed. It is only as the minutes …
I’ve been continuing in post-easter mode with articles for the Border Watch. Next week will have a remembrance theme. I’m conscious that not everyone will read all of these, so even though themes overlap they have to stand on their own. I’m also working on the idea that there will be a committed readership that …
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