I’ve spent the last hour watching the official video of Jensen McRae’s song “Wolves“. Watching … and crying … and crying. In our anti-trafficking research, Bella and I have been inspired by a particular approach to preventing the abuse of young girls in Fiji. In a program that used to be run by Homes of…
Over the weekend I attended the opening night of Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible at The Young Peoples Theatre Newcastle. The direction, by a very young Nick Thoroughgood, emphasised fear and aloneness. But the aspect of the play that struck me anew was the way religion was co-opted by an agenda of power and subsequently…
An unstated assumption that underlies a lot of my culture’s thinking is that evil deserves to be punished. As of today, I no longer believe it. That change of heart comes from a long line of influences. I read Butler’s Erewhon way back about 1985. It’s a humourous saga in the same genre as Gulliver’s…
I stumbled across an article from 2008 by Bruce Wydick titled “Sex and Social Justice“. Although he makes a reasonably good case for the Christian ideal of sex within marriage, a key part of his case simply doesn’t match my personal experience. From his perspective as an economist, Wydick considers the act of sex as…
