Our story alone is too diffused. The story alone is too rarified. Leadership is not a bad word. Nothing worthwhile happens without leadership, which gives direction. Australians are less pretentious than other Western nations.
All humanity carries deep woundedness and flaws.
Whoever has power has misused it against the powerless - all through history. Let us develop a gratitude-based spirituality, a capacity for appreciation. The NZ Bishops suggest, among other things, the victim's and perpetrator's families getting together to work things out, for as long as it takes. Let us listen to Leonard Cohen's most important song 'Anthem' on his CD The Future. Rowland Croucher December 6, 2000.