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Stan Davey: Tireless warrior for Aborigines
October 27, 2010 STANLEY FRASER DAVEY, AM ACTIVIST 20-7-1922 – 22-9-2010 By JO WAINER and JAN RICHARDSON STAN Davey, who campaigned and worked for Aboriginal communities across Australia for more than 50 years, has died of pneumonia at a nursing home in Frankston. He was 88. Stan co-founded five organisations and introduced community development practices […]
Mary McKillop and the Australian soul
by Nils von Kalm http://soulthoughts.com The extraordinary media outpouring over the canonisation of Mary McKillop this week shows that there is still a deep yearning for something spiritual in the Australian psyche. Despite our insanely hedonistic and materialistic outlook on life in this culture, there is still something deep in the hearts of Australians that […]
Eugene Veith: a good friend
Vale Curly, your generous heart beats on Lawrence Money The Age, September 16, 2010 EUGENE ”Curly” Veith, the humble Melbourne tycoon who gave away $23 million to help others, had hoped to live to 100. ”Every five years, I ask God for another five years to continue my work,” he said in April, when his […]
Sydney Carter: ‘The Dance is All I Am’
Sydney Carter The composer of Lord Of The Dance, his life was a musical journey in search of an unconventional God Paul Oestreicher The Guardian, Wednesday 17 March 2004 The songwriter Sydney Carter, who has died aged 88, achieved the remarkable feat of composing two of the five most popular songs sung in assemblies in […]
Antony Flew, the atheist philosopher who became a theist
Professor Antony Flew, the rationalist philosopher who died on April 8 aged 87, spent much of his life denying the existence of God until, in 2004, he dramatically changed his mind. 13 Apr 2010 Flew always described himself as a “negative atheist”, asserting that “theological propositions can neither be verified nor falsified by experience”, a […]
Parker Palmer: The Promise of Paradox
Parker Palmer is an American Quaker mystic/educator. Usually a genial/gentle soul who tries to find language to ‘build bridges and not walls’, this time in the introduction to the 2008 edition of his first book he writes caustically about those Christians who send to eternal damnation others who do not use the same words as […]
Christopher Hitchens miscellany
Some notes left over from my brief review of Hitch-22: Oscar Wilde’s fatal phrase: ‘the problem with socialism is that it wastes too many evenings on “meetings”.’ (149) Expense accounts: he wrote a story which led to the imprisonment of a corrupt mayor. ‘I’ve passed your Dundee expenses (wrote the finance director) but I couldn’t […]
Women writers worth reading
11 Women Writers You Should Be Reading by Brian McLaren 07-12-2010 Here are some of my favorite women writers of spirituality and theology in no particular order with short comments on why I recommend them. Sharon Baker: Her new book, Razing Hell, will put her on the front line of Christian thinkers asking important questions […]
HITCH-22
HITCH-22: A Memoir, By Christopher Hitchens, 2010 Christopher Hitchens (born 1949) is probably the Western world’s best-known ‘Public Intellectual’ and ‘contrarian’ (a term he doesn’t like, though he wrote a book titled Letters to a Young Contrarian). He describes himself as a ‘writer, whose promiscuous mandate is to be interested in everything…’ (424): he certainly […]
G. K. Chesterton
*Sightings* 6/3/10 Saint Gilbert of Battersea — Ian Gerdon You’ve never seen a blockbuster movie based on a book by G.K. Chesterton. Perhaps you’ve stumbled across one of the many television adaptations of his Father Brown mysteries; and if you’re fortunate enough to live in Chicago, maybe you saw last fall’s staging of *The Man […]
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