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Shadowlands, by William Nicholson
Chaplain portrays suffering from the Shadowlands The Rev. Dr Peter Oliver, chaplain at John Hunter Hospital, New Lambton, [Newcastle NSW] is having a tragic love affair with an American poet. Or rather, as C. S. Lewis in the Newcastle Theatre Company’s production of Shadowlands he is. Shadowlands, by William Nicholson, is the poignant story of […]
Calvinism
Friday 14 August 2009 We have forgotten that John Calvin was not only a severe Christian but also a key figure in the intellectual making of the modern world. Dolan Cummings This article is republished from the July 2009 issue of the spiked review of books. This year is the five-hundredth anniversary of John Calvin�s […]
Frank Schaeffer Goes Crazy for God
By Jane Smiley This article appeared in the October 15, 2007 edition of The Nation. September 27, 2007 The original poster child for the religious right describes how he came to terms with religion and an odd upbringing. ….. He has now written his memoir, Crazy for God: How I Grew Up as One of […]
Michael Mayne
From The Times October 25, 2006 The Very Rev Michael Mayne Hardworking Dean of Westminster who was an inspirational writer and conducted Laurence Olivier’s memorial service September I0, 1929 – October 22, 2006 MICHAEL MAYNE was one of the most able, influential and hardworking priests of his generation. Before he became Dean of Westminster he […]
Michael Jackson
Sightings 7/2/09 The Way You Make Me Feel — Kathryn Lofton You’re tired of it already: the inundating coverage, the progressively whitening chronology, the recollection of malfeasance. Make it stop, you think. Let us move on to better problems, to anything but this. I’m with you. Make it stop. But first, before the casket closes, […]
Margaret Mead
From a Usenet newsgroup discussion (June 2009): [1]:>>> According to Margaret Mead, the South Sea Islanders paid no attention to sexual taboos – hardly knew sex was connected with pregnancy. They indulged with abandon where and when and with whom they felt like, and age was no barrier. [2]: >> That’s a remarkably simplistic reading […]
The Curious Case of Galileo Galilei
Sightings 6/4/09 The Curious Case of Galileo Galilei (in which he does not go to jail) — Karl E. Johnson Last week, the Niels Stensen Foundation, a Jesuit study center in Florence, Italy, convened a conference entitled “The Galileo Affair†to show how recent research “might alleviate the ‘tension and conflict’ still clouding the relationship […]
A. N. Wilson: Look Who
A.N. Wilson: Look Who’s a Believer Now Have you ever heard the one about the Christian who started to study calculus and ended up losing his faith? Of course you have. Such “conversion” to atheism is supposed to be the story of all modern, thinking people. But imagine it happening the other way around. Moreover, […]
Tom Hanks
‘If I ever had to be stuck in a long line, I would like to be stuck there with Tom Hanks… he’s a big goof and he’s interesting. He’s interesting because he’s interested. He asks great questions, and he waits for the answers. He has a wondrous capacity for wonder. The magic of history, of […]
A Chaplain’s Story
Lieut-Col.Don Woodland, OAM., Picking Up The Pieces: A Life of Care and Compassion (Sydney: Macmillan, 2006) Reviewed by Jenni & Darren Cronshaw Don Woodland describes life as a jigsaw puzzle. Each day we add another piece, and over time the picture changes and grows. Experiences come that bump the table and we need time and […]
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