It's that time of year again in Australian schools. The time when a large swathe of students sit our National Assessment Program... and the time just after that, when the writing component is marked by a slightly smaller swathe of teachers. Myself being one of them. This could explain the reason while I'm unusually feeling …
As my (just finished) scheduled posts on the Lord’s Prayer were rolling, there were times where I felt like jumping in and blogging on another matter. I’d set the posts for the lead up to Easter and the world was bad enough at that stage. Then it started raining on the east coast of Australia. …
It’s almost the end of the prayer, bar this post and one more. Today is Good Friday, the day we remember the crucifixion of Christ. His death on the cross for the sin of all humanity. But why was it that Jesus was a worthy sacrifice in place of us all? Earlier in the Lord’s …
I recently discovered that Orwell Day has been celebrated every year since 2013 on January 21st. This is the date of Orwell’s death at age 46, from tuberculosis. Considering this, here’s a collection of posts on some ideas in a few of Orwell’s essays. I feel he has a lot to say to contemporary culture. …
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