Disconnected Jottings

Cartoon by nicholsoncartoons.com.au

Like you, I read the daily headlines in the newspapers and watch the news on TV. Like you, I’m struck by the amount of bad news that is featured by the media, often reflecting a view of the world that is quite different from my own perceptions and causing me to pause and think “what’s actually going on here; how has this situation come about; how do I get to the truth?” Read the rest of this entry »

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – one of the fathers of modern Humanism

No doubt about it, when it comes to religion it’s a complicated world. Arguably, things were always like this – but until the development of mass media most folk didn’t know (or care) much about the beliefs and spiritual practices of people from other parts of the world. The received wisdom was generally a healthy dose of dogma ground up into a stew of prejudice, all as interpreted by local clerics and reinforced by folklore and tradition. Read the rest of this entry »