The Journal

2012

  • Nothing is Free

    I have said this before, but campaign promises in Queensland and arguments in US about health insurance coverage make the point worth repeating. When people say something should be free, what they are really saying is…

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    Labor Party = Celebrity Apprentice

    The Australian Labor Party is the girls’ team on Celebrity Apprentice, and Lisa Lampanelli is Kevin Rudd in drag.

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    Christian Marriage

    The Adelaide Church Guardian is the newsletter of the Anglican Diocese of Adelaide. There is an article in the February/March edition called ‘Christenviron’ Inclusive Church. The article, by Fr David Thornton-Wakeford, argued that there should be…

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    An Arrow in the Knee

    I used to be a blogger like you, until …  well, you know the rest. I have been too involved with family and business over the last month to spend any time updating this blog. For…

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    By the Pricking of My Thumbs

    Something is coming that will leave the world a different place. Not something wicked perhaps, though made necessary by wickedness. Certainly something sad, bad and dangerous. I wrote a couple of days ago about what I thought…

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    An Excerpt From a Christmas Sermon

    By Bishop N.T. Wright at Durham Cathedral. Read the whole thing. It is a reminder that despite its mad follies and unfaithfulness, the Church of England still has men who care about the truth, and stand…

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    John Howard Earns Order of Merit

    I am not sure ‘earns’ is the right word, but it is, as Governor General Quentin Bryce noted in her congratulations to John Howard, ‘a rare and singular honour for his service to Australia.’ It is…

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    Christians Get End of the World Prophecies Wrong Again

    Or not… Runaway Global Warming promises to literally burn-up agricultural areas into dust worldwide by 2012, causing global famine, anarchy, diseases, and war on a global scale as military powers including the U.S., Russia, and China,…