Because of the generosity of some very special people, Mary and I were able to spend ten days on Lord Howe Island. Lord Howe Island is a majestic place and a gentle place. […]
Indigenous Australians can teach us a thing or two. They have the custom of regularly returning to country to reaffirm their identity and their connection with place. They do this by retelling the […]
The British classics scholar, A.W. Verral is reputed to have said that the chief disease from which civilizations died was their low view of women.[1] Other scholars, such as the British historian, Arnold […]
“Down with the Christian church! A plague on its legalism and its bullying throughout history. And ‘hurrah’ for Voltaire, that Enlightenment literary wit who tweaked the tail of the Roman Catholic Church, and […]
I would never have made a good Stoic… although I applaud much of their thinking. Stoicism was a Greek school of philosophy founded by Zeno in the 3rdcentury BC. It taught that the […]
Modern atheistic philosophers such as Nietzsche and Sartre have trashed the idea of ‘truth’ existing. This has led to today’s society being flavoured by postmodern thinking that has debased the idea of truth […]