A Beautiful Tribute with an Inherently Confused Narrative: Wish (2023)
In spite of itself, Wish provides a beautiful opportunity for children and adults alike to see that when you turn to secular humanism for nourishing hope, the cupboard is bare.
In spite of itself, Wish provides a beautiful opportunity for children and adults alike to see that when you turn to secular humanism for nourishing hope, the cupboard is bare.
The past 18 months have proven difficult for all Victorians. During this time hundreds of thousands of Victorians have been gratefully receiving support, care and education provided by religious organisations such as schools and counselling services. Churches have continued to minister to people and offer hope where disease and lockdowns have darkened the lives of so many. During this same period, the Victorian Government has moved again and again to reduce the freedoms of religious organisations which hold beliefs and practices in keeping with the historical convictions of their religion. The Victorian Government has moved again and again to reduce...
COVID-19 has cancelled a lot of calendar events in 2020, but World Sexual Health Day (September 4th, but can be celebrated all the way up to September 20) is not one of them. Even the Tokyo Olympics was cancelled, but clearly sport is vying for silver on the cultural podium, because sex has the gold wrapped up. The aim of the day for the world, the whole wide world, is to ensure that a particular cultural take on sex—derived from late modern secular society—is globalised World Sexual Health Day is an initiative of WAS—the World Association of Sexual Health—which sounds...
Seventy five years ago, on the 27th January 1945, soldiers from the 322nd Rifle Division of the Red Army liberated the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz. Former Soviet officer Ivan Martynushkin recalls seeing the prisoners for the first time: It was hard to watch them. I remember their faces, especially their eyes which betrayed their ordeal. And what an ordeal it was: the systematic enslavement and destruction of human beings, unmatched and unparalleled in human history. ‘Never again’ was the catchcry of those who survived. And yet. ‘Never again’ was the catchcry of those who survived. As Auschwitz survivor Ellie...
A fascinating article appeared in the Wall Street Journal late last year. Erica Komisar, a well known and respected author and Psychoanalyst wrote a piece entitled ‘Don’t believe in God? Lie to your children’. In her article she writes: I am often asked by parents, “How do I talk to my child about death if I don’t believe in God or heaven?” My answer is always the same: “Lie.” In other words, if you don’t believe in God, lie to your kids by telling them you really do believe in God. In other words, if you don’t believe in God,...