Senior Research Fellow at @cpx_tweet / Spiritual gift: book recommendations / Optimist, author of The Pleasures of Pessimism
Joined March 2014
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Me this week alternating twitter scrolling and ... reading Marilynne Robinson's new book 🤯
This week’s drama of Princess Kate and the Manipulated Photo has been hard to miss. I’m pretty nonplussed by the fevered speculation about where Kate’s disappeared to (they said she’d be out till Easter after abdominal surgery, let’s calm down guys?) 1/9
ALT Image source: Rick Wilson, “Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cambridge, Countess of Strathearn and Lady Carrickfergus,” (April 2014), CC BY 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0
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We’ve been through a lot, but we made it. 7 interest rate rises. A summer of floods. An uptick in national unemployment. Even a Prime Ministerial Valentine’s Day proposal. But it’s finally here. It’s Tay-Tay week in Australia! 1/9
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You know you’re in strange times when #PopeFrancis, #ChanelContos, and #Euphoria are singing the same song. I was late to Euphoria – the 2019 American teen show on sex, drugs, and social media – and binged it over my summer holidays. 1/9
Do you need a good daily news email? I've been getting @thesquiz for years now and they're GREAT. They manage both neutrality and fun! And I super appreciate an Aussie-centric take.
(If you use this link to sign up I go in a draw to win something 😁)
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CPX Senior Fellow, @BarneyZwartz writes for The Age about how widespread Christian persecution in countries like North Korea and Somalia is rarely reported in mainstream media.
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Still easing into the work year here, but my colleagues are off and running. @JustineToh has a sharp smart piece about sibling rivalry - ancient and modern - in @GuardianAus here: bit.ly/48Wtaaj
... and Max Jeganathan ruminates on the wide AND deep appeal of @OfficialBlueyTV - explaining our "Blueyan longings" in reference to the delightful, tear-jerking "Cricket" episode ab.co/3O8O0eG
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"Since marrying at 38 and getting pregnant at 39, I’ve dwelt often on Charlotte Bronte's story — maybe a little morbidly, during those weeks of nausea and exhaustion and migraines after the positive pregnancy test." @drnatashamoore buff.ly/3NmSZrr
I wrote this thing about being pregnant at Christmas, life turning out differently to how you thought, and ... the Brontë sisters. I hope you like it 😌 ab.co/3tacxbV
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Please do not ask a bookworm if they are going to finish the books they have before buying more. It is very offensive in our culture.
This is cool - @GuardianAus has a new religion/spirituality column called ‘Making sense of it’, and @JustineToh is a contributor 😊👏
How was your weekend? Were you able to rest? @JustineToh in @Guardian writes that our idea of rest is thinned out in a culture that worships overwork. Read it via The Guardian 👏🏻 buff.ly/47CVfmc
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Halloween time. How many of us believe in the supernatural? @natashaleemoore @smh @cpx_tweet
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"It takes a kind of fearlessness to admit to not only belief in but experience of the supernatural". Happy Halloween! @natashaleemoore in the @smh explores what many of us are too shy to admit: the world is weirder, and way more enchanted than we think bit.ly/3QjnRKn
Is there a re-enchantment of the world underway? I suspect that the way we tend to celebrate #Halloween depends on a naturalistic worldview - one that many (perhaps most?) of us don't really subscribe to @smh bit.ly/3QjnRKn
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Perth friends! Are you coming to the @cpx_tweet Richard Johnson Lecture THIS THURSDAY night? I'll be there and would love to see you. It's on that thing we could all use a little more of rn ... publicchristianity.org/richa…
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