The Bloodwood Tree

Both Anglican Archbishop Peter Jensen and Catholic Cardinal George Pell have this Good Friday returned fire on the growing atheist-Church conflict (http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/04/02/2863269.htm), accusing the rise of atheism for many of the great wrongs of last century and challenging it as simply an alternative faith. But isn’t atheism the absence of faith? Isn’t it the rational […]

A couple of weeks ago I was walking in the evening as a storm came over. It wasn’t quite dark, there was still just enough light to see the grassland moving in the wind from the storm. The grass is above my knees and silver at this time of year, and the smell of rain came in […]