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BOOK REVIEW Atheism with an Islamic cast gives way to the Catholic Church

Music Cinema & BooksFebruary 22, 2020

FROM FIRE, BY WATER: My Journey to the Catholic Faith by Sohrab Ahmari Ignatius Press, San Francisco Hardback: 240 pages Price: AUD$45.95 Reviewed by Michael E. Daniel As a convert to Catholicism myself, I never cease to be intrigued by conversion stories. Despite a massive decline in the number of people who identify as Catholic in the last couple of decades, there has nonetheless been a steady flow of converts to Catholicism. Increasingly, many of them are from non-Christian backgrounds. In From Fire, by Water, Sohrab Ahmari explores his spiritual…

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POETRY

Poetry Letters & HumourFebruary 22, 2020

A RECKONING When a generation startsto tiptoe awayalmost imperceptibly,one misses the presenceof old friends one didn’t seevery often, and that, too,is sad. A reckoning is due. I should have saidHow glad I was of you. THERE’LL COME A DAY There’ll come a day when I’d giveanything to see you standing therein the kitchen, head bent over,jotting down something to remember,happy because while making your lunchyou can listen to your gentle musicon the Concert Programme. Love, time has been too muchwith us, and I do not want it nowto come between us. Amy Brooke

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LETTERS

Poetry Letters & HumourFebruary 22, 2020

JUST A THOUGHT … What if it turned out that traditional Christian morality is the template for “the greatest happiness of the greatest number”? John Stuart Mill’s formula offered as a rational substitute for the “unfounded” superstitious dogmas of received religion is in fact impossible of rational application to the chaos (as in “chaos” theory) of human society, where none can trace with any plausibility the interaction of the infinite number of variables in play. The default formula has been the cultivation of individualism, which is, in effect, the unleashing of the bullies. Divine direction, or the millennia of trial…

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AS THE WORLD TURNS

As the World TurnsFebruary 22, 2020

BBC MISLEADING ABOUT MELTING ANTARCTIC GLACIER The Global Warming Policy Forum has criticised the BBC for misleading the public about the melting of the Thwaites Glacier. In its numerous reports online, on radio and on television, the BBC has blamed the melting of this Antarctic glacier on climate change. However, the BBC’s reports do not mention an important fact that has been widely known and that the BBC itself has reported previously – the influence of volcanoes beneath the glacier. Scientists have known for years that subglacial volcanoes and other geothermal “hotspots” beneath the glacier are contributing to the melting…

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