Before she was Supergirl in the eponymous movie released in June, Milly Alcock was a young actor from Petersham and a student at Newtown High School of the Performing Arts. She now wears the cape of Kara Zor-El, survivor of a destroyed world.
Supergirl has extraordinary powers, but the film’s...
Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical Magnifica Humanitas asks how human dignity can be safeguarded in an age shaped by artificial intelligence (AI), digital platforms and concentrated technological power. AI can serve human beings and the common good, but only when governed by ethical responsibility. It must not reduce people to...
I can juggle three balls (badly), provided there’s a wall to bounce them off back towards me. I can keep a hacky sack in the air for around 30 taps. I can do ‘toe basketball’ and get the ball in the basket (on the floor) with my toes, at...
Talk of sin can leave people demoralised rather than healed. In some church settings, sin has sounded like shame, illness, depravity or permanent failure. That can be spiritually damaging. It can make people feel trapped.
But we still need a way to speak honestly about harm.
Our world is wounded by...
