Posts from January 2010 (Page 2)

Murray Campbell this week wrote a brief and provocative Facebook piece entitled “A Christmas Stir” in which he writes, ‘I have a proposal to make for Aussies: Instead of making a public holiday out of December 25 let’s go to work. After all, is it not somewhat hypocritical to celebrate ‘Christ’mas when the vast majority are not Christian? Do non-Muslims…

of the Psalms was magnificent. Unfortunately for poor Isaac, he was not a handsome figure. His one chance at love came and went with a young lady named Elizabeth Singer, who actually fell in love with Watts sight-unseen through his published poems. Being so taken with this man who could write so deeply and passionately she threw caution to the wind and…

Our society has bought a lie. It has been sold an experiment that has failed in successive cultures throughout human history. What is it? The axiom that ‘wealth begets well-being’. We have been told that if we raise the social and economic levels of society then morality and ethics…

“Come now” says James, clearly calling his readers to take some time to reason together, to take time to think through what they were saying. That is something we all need to do – to review our practices and habits. So many of the things we say are habitual, things we say with little apparent thought, said casually and maybe even thoughtlessly habitual. It may be…