Context is all important in asking any question? And these days a key question is the importance of history. Pragmatic agendas of the daily grind obscure how significance the study of the past is for getting a perspective on how to live a better life. This blog looks at how different present contexts are better understood from what preceded.
The image (you can zoom in to read) is a reply from the Lord Mayor of Brisbane, responding to my letter, dated 5 April 2023, asking a series of questions on the multiple anniversaries – bicentennial and centennial events – for the City of Brisbane and for Queensland...
Evangelicals offer a providential worldview, that centres on evangelical message(s) of the promise to have special access to God, and beyond that, that they – each member of God’s Kingdom – enjoy special access to God, as revelatory knowledge, through the...
© EHA Inc. and Dr Neville Buch For the 2023 Evangelical History Association (EHA) Conference, "Telling Our Story", Alphacrucis College, 30 Cowper St, Parramatta NSW, Australia. 10.45-11.15. a.m. Saturday 20 May, 2023, Alphacrucis College, 30 Cowper St, Parramatta NSW,...
“...What we find today is the complete absence of the kind of concern with Americanization which one found in the United States in the 1880 to 1922 period. And this is a real problem. Possibly only in Australia, among the countries with mass immigration, does...
“Still, universities continue to churn out a supply of PhDs far exceeding the academic market’s demand for them. About 70 percent of all professors are not in tenure-track positions. Only 27 percent of those who received history PhDs in 2017 were in tenure-track jobs...
Dr Neville Buch’s Philosophy and History Article: Downloadable PDF Version In the early morning, before dawn broke, I dreamed of how to explain my philosophy and history (historiography). It came as my mind recovered from the slightly-over...
Dear Nick, I am writing a short letter after skimming your Sky News piece, “Peter Dutton is steering the Voice 'No' campaign to victory over cancel culture by refusing to play the role of a troglodyte conservative”. I make only a sincere plea to stop fuelling...
Why Academia.edu and Not Quora? Automation Failure in Machine Learning (A.I.) and the Truth Value of Community Education [Teaching Document Copy] “Quora advertises with the slogan ‘The best answer to any question’, ‘Quora aggregates questions and answers to topics....
Former Prime Minister Paul Keating's intervention on the Labor Government's decision on the AUKUS agreement for increasing Australia's defence capability in the Asia-Pacific region, is as helpful as it (also) muddies the waters of local-regional-national interactional...