Brenda L. Croft, ‘shut/mouth/scream’ (detail), 2016. Source. 

I haven’t posted one of these for a while. Here are a number of pages I’ve appreciated visiting this past week or so:

• Damion Searls on how psychiatrists used Rorschach tests to examine Nazis during the Nuremberg trials.
• George Monbiot’s piece on being ‘Screened Out’.
• Julian Cribb on why ‘coal will kill more people than WWII’.
• Frank Brennan, Tim Costello, Robert Manne, and John Menadue reckon that ‘we can stop the boats and also act decently, fairly and transparently’.
• The announcement about the National Gallery of Australia’s ‘Defying Empire: 3rd National Indigenous Art Triennial’ coming up later this year!
• Chris Green’s Ash Wednesday reflection – Christ’s Death Lives in Us.
• Steve Wright’s Ash Wednesday reflection – To dust.
• Mary Beard is simply awesome: check out her piece on Seneca and her lecture on women in power, delivered at the BM.
• For those within cooee of Melbourne, this looks good – Thomas Crow, Anne Dunlop, and Charles Green talking about theological originality in art.
• Matthew Sharpe on Montaigne’s Essays.
• Jane Hutcheon talks to Reg Mombassa.
• Michael Hobbes on the epidemic of gay loneliness.
• Jonathan Sacks on the architecture of holiness.
• Rick Floyd has been looking for light in the shadow of death.
• Jason Guriel on Christian Wiman and ‘kind of faith that a poet had better not lose’.
• Queensland, a part of the country where most locals seem to espouse the philosophy that two wongs don’t make a white and which is not especially well known for a radical brand of Christianity, sees some religious fanatics charged for beating swords into garden hoes.
• A funeral homily by Kim Fabricius, plus his good little introduction to Christianity.
• Raimond Gaita on Donald Trump’s America.
• John Milbank on the problem of populism and the promise of a Christian politics.
• Scott Jackson asks, ‘Was Niebuhr a “Real” Theologian?’
• The University of Divinity is seeking a Director for its Centre for Research in Religion and Social Policy (RASP).
• Swee Ann Koh asks, ‘Is there racism in the church?’
• Paul Collier reviews a couple of recent efforts to understand the logic and opportunities of, and challenges to, capitalism. Along the way, he has some insightful things to say about nationalism, ‘nationhood’, multiculturalism, and global citizenship too. (However, given the reality of religion, for example, it would be very difficult to defend the claim that ‘nationhood is the only force that has proved to be sufficiently powerful to bind millions of people together in a sense of shared identity’.)
• Why students hate peer review, and how to make it work better for them.
• Watching Umberto Eco and his books and books and books and paintings and books and books and ladders means that I will tolerate no more complaints on this subject, from anyone.
• Speaking of no complaints, Doug Gay’s third public lecture on reforming Scottish Presbyterianism is now available here.

And this: