Author: Christopher Bounds
Coalition to dump Gonski reforms: Pyne. Just appalling: any short term gain for independent schools will be swamped by the justifiable outrage from the whole educate community about the failure to properly fund the...
This article just gives me the willies. As for this extract – Republican congressman Louie Gohmert said he thought the problem was more about lack of access to God rather than the availability of...
Love it when the media does your lesson planning for you! Owen Jones: Islamophobia – for Muslims, read Jews. And be shocked – Commentators – Opinion – The Independent. A tide of Islamophobia has...
Nice timing: we start Islam as soon as we go back! Circumcision ban is the ‘worst attack on Jews since Holocaust’ – Europe – World – The Independent.
10 Timeless Lessons from a Life Well Lived. Nice blog entry and all good advice!
Elizabeth Farrelly – always an interesting correspondent – has her two bits worth about modern church design. Can’t say that I disagree! The approach in Sydney seems to make God the Chairman, the Jensen...
Excellent article from The Conversation. The genius of the NBN is that it will break down that divide all across Australia. Instead of a digital “rain shadow” the whole nation will have equitable access....
Found an excellent article on the US MSC website. Excellent reflections on Bonnhoeffer’s spirituality and parallels in spirituality of the Sacred Heart. Dietrich Bonhoeffer lived in a time when the meaning of religion was...
Julian Burnside skewers Abbot in this opinion piece. How embarrassing that Burnside, a principled atheist or agnostic, should demonstrate the moral bankruptcy of such a public Catholic. It is not surprising that Mr Abbott...
Thanks, Mark Colvin, for pointing out what we should all remember: Child abuse: it’s never been about religious denomination, it’s always been about adults having unchecked power. Some confronting lines: Magdalene laundries were a...