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‘What are you up to these days?
A common question and one I answer with the simple phrase, ‘semi-retired’, which seems to be the simplest (and most easily understood in our culture) way of saying that I have time to do the things I really want to do and am spending less time in the...

So we have two authors whose private lives have been exposed and are now subject to intense scrutiny.
Phillip Yancey confessed to an 8 year long affair and recently in Perth, Craig Silvey was arrested on charges of possessing and distributing child exploitation material....

I dunno if we still use that phrase a lot but it kinda sums up my mate, Mase – he was a ‘top bloke’. (Imagine Darrell Kerrigan from The Castle saying it) The kinda man you love to hang out with, you’d want in your corner in a fight and the kinda bloke...

There is barely a sound to be heard in bone-dry, outback Wilcannia. The piercing heat of the day has finally eased and we have drifted off to sleep. But the buzz of my phone vibrating in the bedside cabinet at 11.37 was enough to wake us both.
‘Probably my dad’ I thought. Lately he has been accidentally calling at odd times… But when I picked it up I saw the name – the wife of one of my close mates. I assumed (but more hoped) it was a pocket call and hung up, not wanting to rouse from sleepiness...