One of the best books I’ve read recently is “How to Read Numbers: A Guide to Statistics in the News (and Knowing When to Trust Them)” by Tom and David Chivers along with it’s accompanying website. Chivers & Chivers have written a short engaging tome that helps us all understand how statistics can be used […]
You can watch the video of last night’s “religious leaders” discussion on ABC Lateline here. Also check out Michael Jensen on the Drum earlier the same evening. http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/news/lateline/video/201709/LATs_Panel_1109_512k.mp4Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS
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A while ago I was interviewed for an documentary (“The Troublesome Priest”) about Ven. Rod Bower, Rector of Gosford Anglican and now Archdeacon of the Central Coast, by documentary maker Kaye Harrison (Bunya Treehouse for ABC Compass). While my interview ended up not being used in the film (the director decided to go in a different direction) […]
It’s not often you get a person so appropriately named as “Dan Savage”. Savage by name and, sadly, savage by nature. On last week’s ABC Q&A programme the panellists were asked an intriguing final question based on the cultural “Festival of Dangerous Ideas” that was hosting this week’s episode of the show, Which so-called dangerous […]
As the interviewer puts it, a “very comprehensive” discussion. Well worth the listen to get a good understanding of our new Archbishop here in Sydney. http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/local/sundaynights/201309/r1180773_15095532.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS
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I had the great privilege and, as it turned out, pleasure, to be in the studio audience for the ABC‘s live panel show Q&A. The panel last night included ArchBishop Peter Jensen who was set against “comedian” Catherine Deveny and a number of other panelists who faded away into relative insignificance given the “dialogue” that would develop (and by […]
Well, that will surely get your attention. Great article on the abc website “NOTHING RADICAL ABOUT MASS-MARKET MASTURBATION” by Melinda Tankard Reist and Abigail Bray: The pornification of culture is leading to a form of hypersexism that entails an increase in physical, sexual, mental, economic and emotional cruelty towards women and children. This radical cultural […]
Just a small thought as Muriel Porter launches another attack upon Sydney Anglicanism… Muriel Porter in her latest book “Sydney Anglicans and the Threat to World Anglicanism (Ashgate Contemporary Ecclesiology)” (quote from Mark Thompson’s blog): To my mind the Articles are a quaintly-worded, seriously limited summary of Anglican understandings of faith and doctrine, scarcely relevant to […]
A bunch of material got published here in Australia over Easter. First up, the ABC's Religion and Ethics site put up a great article by NT Wright, “Can We Believe in the Resurrection?“. The Christian claim from the beginning was that the question of Jesus's resurrection was a question, not of the internal mental and […]
