Category Archive for 'Education'

Dear PM, please consider our secular education, constitution & right to opt out of religion, thanks!

Access Ministries like to use the term evangelising rather than proselytising. It turned out they define evangelising to be the same as proselytising.. Click through to see the evidence in black, white and red.

I make no secret of it, I think spending $222m of tax dollars to fund proselytising, dodgy chaplains in Australian public schools is atrocious. Here are some suggestions on how the money could have been used.

A school principal came out in support of both Access Ministries and the National School Chaplaincy Program saying they don’t proselytise. I beg to differ.

The Australian Psychological Association described chaplains in schools as “dangerous”: how (unfortunately) right they were in this case.

This won’t make much sense to anyone outside Australia, but the inventor of Mr Squiggle passed away this morning: Norman Hetherington.

Well this week was the start of something big: the first useful use of scripture time in NSW History: the St James ethics course trial. Not since sometime in the late 1980s has anything even remotely of use taken place in scripture time and that was discovering it was possible to climb up into the air-conditioning vent in the library.