A friend has drawn my attention to this remarkable article: “The Data on the Death of Religious Orders”, by two academics, Jack P. Oostveen and David L. Sonnier, at https://onepeterfive.com/data-death-religious-orders/ That […]

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There was food for thought in Jordan Peterson’s recent interview by an English television journalist who was woefully out of her depth. She spent the entire interview misrepresenting him in […]

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I shall be updating this piece from time to time. However, it will be a useful resource as this tragic sexualisation of culture continues. It is not that sexuality has […]

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Here are three news items: first, Noam Chomsky being interviewed on the topic: “What We Really Want” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CFwSQiTu3I The interviewer begins saying, in a very self-satisfied way, that he and […]

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The Psalmist had it right in Psalm 146: place your most profound trust in God, not in princes or politicians, or indeed any human being. It does not mean that […]

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Part One The road to balance is a long hard one. There are moments when one’s state is so high that it seems as if one will always be lifted […]

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The Sydney Morning Herald’s weekend edition of 17-18 September 2016, had an article titled: “Dramatic changes needed as childhood obesity normalised” (pp. 8-9).  Sadly, one in five children in NSW […]

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I am absolutely serious. Sugar is a plague. To take just one example, on 20 February 2016, Australia newspapers reported that “Children as young as five are having all their […]

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This the church of St Mama in Ehidin, Lebanon. It is the longest continually used church in the Middle East, having been in use since about 800. When the morning […]

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