Politicians, particularly conservative politicians, are constantly talking up the need for more police and more prison places, and generally being tougher on crime. They are being dishonest and they know it. These campaigns are based on cultivating fear, and have nothing to do with the real situation. The Hon. Christine Wheeler QC is a former [...]
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10 May
Beyond Brokeback Mountain: the church and rainbow sexuality
Stephen Hunt, Contemporary Christianity and LGBT sexualities, Burlington VT: Ashgate Publications 2009 Reviewed by Ted Witham Check availability and price (Australian site) Soon after its release, my wife Rae and I went to see the movie Brokeback Mountain, Ang Lee’s brilliant adaptation of Annie Proulx’s short story. We saw it as tragic story of bisexuality [...]
8 Jul
ABC tackles chronic pain
The ABC TV program Catalyst is advertising a segment on chronic pain at 8 pm tomorrow night (Thursday July 9). I look forward to seeing the research, and to finding hope in the sheer thinking power that is being applied to this condition.
30 Jan
Use your brain
Pain clinics usually have psychologists. That’s not because chronic pain is a mental illness, but because the mind has resources that can help us change the way we look at our pain. Pain psychologists are more like sports psychologists than ordinary psychologists. They are basically interested in getting us to perform better. There are parallels [...]
4 Jan
No Sex, Please: We Might be Sore
SEX AND PAIN Definition of sexuality: “Being so attentive to another that you tend to merge with that other.” Those words, with capital ‘O’s, could equally be a definition of spirituality. “Being so attentive to an Other that you tend to merge with that Other.” For some mystics, sexuality and spirituality are aspects of the [...]
