My mother's family were full-on Irish Catholics - faith in an elaborate old fashioned highly conservative and madly baroque style. I sort of fell out of the tribe over women's rights and social justice issues when I was just 13 years old.
You can't write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental...
The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual...
There's just so many great stories in the past that you can know a little bit...
Men can absent themselves from real life for their art more easily. Women are...
The day in 2004 when the radiologist told me I had invasive cancer I walked...
I knew I was going to be a journalist when I was eight years old and I saw...
Both my mum and dad were great readers and we would go every Saturday...
Sep-11 2001 revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through...
There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the...
Sydney in the 1960s wasn't the exuberant multicultural metropolis it is...
Testimony is an integral part of the Black religious tradition. It is the...
I believe though I do not comprehend and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp...
I'm an enormous fan of people who have had a lot of faith in themselves and...
And in that I cannot send unto you all my businesses in writing I despatch...
The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India......
My faith inasmuch as I have any is more like a kind of Joseph Campbell...
Faith given back to us after a night of doubt is a stronger thing and far...