Hi everyone on my blog mailing list! This is just a very brief note to let you know that at the moment (for the next 2 days only) I have a book giveaway running. I am allowing people to download a FREE ebook copy of my new novel, Someone Else’s Life. A reviewer wrote: “A …
This morning, as I sipped my morning coffee (home-made flat white on rice milk with a dash of hazelnut syrup) I read Luke 12:4-7 and meditated on it for some time. The passage is part of a fascinating discourse where Jesus is speaking to his band of disciples – his closest followers. He is describing …
IF YOU’RE OFFENDED BY THE TRUTH, WE’LL JUST CHANGE THE TRUTH FOR YOU! A professor in America who dared to suggest that Islam is not totally a religion of peace is now facing death threats by Islamic supporters who have taken offense. Ironic, isn’t it? Professor Nicolas Damask, PhD, has taught political science at Scottsdale …
At the risk of saying ‘I told you so’, there is now a movement toward recognising polyamorous marriage; that’s marriage between more than two people. The New York Times recently published an article, “A Massachusetts City Decides to Recognize Polyamorous Relationships.” The city in question is Somerville, and it has officially recognised the validity of …
It is entirely possible to be supportive of a cause while being simultaneously critical of some of its methodologies. I think there are many reasonable people who are in precisely this position at the moment in regard to the Black Lives Matter campaign. On the one hand, we are appalled at ongoing instances of racism, …
In case you didn’t understand the meaning of my previous post … Like most reasonable people, I am outraged at the appallingly racist attitudes against people of colour that are still entrenched within western society. My previous post, however, was a piece of satire pointing out the ridiculous extrapolations that many “Black Lives Matter” campaigners …
I have a confession to make. I was once a hard-line protectionist, wanting our national borders to remain closed against the rising tide of ‘illegal’ refugees who were seeking to sneak into our beautiful country. As a conservative Australian, I was supportive of government policies that sought to lock up ‘boat people’ in off-shore detention …
Cancel Culture is the push to remove all traces of something or someone from society when what they stand for doesn’t conform to current ‘group think’. At a personal level, we rightly condemn bullying in all its forms – physical, verbal and cyber. But cancel culture has somehow slipped through the back door as a …