Tasmanian Times
Religion
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1.2KLiving authentically in the real world – without blind faith or mystery-mongering
Chris Sharples’ picture is a view over the far SW from Mt Sprent … expressing the notion that the world is beautiful...
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All Will Be Well: The Radical Optimism of Julian of Norwich
“All will be well and all will be well and every kind of thing shall be well.” (Julian of Norwich) Sometimes I...
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Honouring remembrance
In his Mercury My Tasmania column, Leo Schofield touched on an important point – the memorials to our soldiers killed in World...
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The Hunter of Franklin
Not for the first time do I pose this question: what price for saving our heritage churches? So I’m asking it again...
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Bringing up the bodies in Ireland
The news from Ireland that up to eight hundred infants, possibly more, were secretly buried within the grounds of a home for...
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Us v Them, Australia vs Asylum Seekers, Slaves vs Everyone Else: Is there a difference?
*The attached picture was drawn for me by Mohammed Ali Sayed – an asylum seeker on Nauru who was deported back to...
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The Lives of Brian
For six years I sat within meters of the late Senator Brian Harradine. Along with a few Greens and One Nation, the...
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Can we divorce theology from politics?
Allegory to separation of church and state, 1905. How free from a religious or sacred dimension is our political system? The West...
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Nicholas of Cusa and the Instruction of Ignorance
On a slow boat journey from Constantinople to Venice in the early 15th century, scholar and papal diplomat Nicholas of Cusa set...
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Brian Harradine Remembered
The Tasmanian Greens today paid their respects to former Tasmanian Senator, Brian Harradine. Greens Leader Kim Booth MP said that Mr Harradine...
