Advent 2022 #16: The North Wind

In my trawling around YouTube, I have just come across this updated version of The North Wind by Nerida Cuddy. Originally written by William J. James and John Wheeler, this Australian Christmas Carol (and others like it) is fantastic in its acknowledgement of what Australia, and the Southern Hemisphere are like in December. None of …

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#195 It’s a Diploma of Something…

Well, this weekend I smashed out the first essay for my Graduate Diploma of Divinity (I think that's what I'm enrolled in... I should probably pay more attention...). The assignment was interesting but it felt like I almost took just as much time with the referencing as I did the actually writing. Half a day, …

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#192 Ahead of the Trend? ;)

Not that many years ago, I had some Chinese high school students tell me that Australia was a Christian nation. I told them that historically that was the case, but that their understanding of the currently reality was a little flawed. Sure, compared to where they had come from, it seemed Christian to them. They'd …

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