Haven’t done one of these posts in a while …

• My dear friend Alfonse Borysewicz on religious art, faith, and not being pretty.
• Byron Smith on the ‘Christian Values Checklist’.
• Richard Flanagan and Tim Winton on why Australian literature is in peril and being pissed upon by Turnbull and a gang of technocrats.
• On the subject of pissing and/or of taking the piss, Kim Fabricius has some more doodlings – Dolce far Niente.
• Steve Wright has some wonderful words to say about George Whitfield and ‘the strangely graced lives of Christians’.
• Daisy Friedman’s ‘Dentist Poem’.
• Jon Levenson is gold! Here’s his lecture on ‘Abraham and the Absoluteness of God’.
• David Gushee’s talk from last year at the Centre for Theology and Public Issues on the subject of ‘Changing Our Mind on the LGBT Issue’.

[Image: Alfonse Borysewicz]