Comments on: Of tall poppies, mateship and pragmatism: Spirituality in the Australasian Context https://brianharrisauthor.com/of-tall-poppies-mateship-and-pragmatism-spirituality-in-the-australasian-context/ Tue, 05 Aug 2025 02:18:27 +0000 hourly 1 By: Brian Harris https://brianharrisauthor.com/of-tall-poppies-mateship-and-pragmatism-spirituality-in-the-australasian-context/#comment-4301 Tue, 26 Jan 2016 11:10:56 +0000 http://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=1451#comment-4301 In reply to Monica O’Neil.

Thanks Monica. I think that is the kind of faith people resonate with.

]]> By: Brian Harris https://brianharrisauthor.com/of-tall-poppies-mateship-and-pragmatism-spirituality-in-the-australasian-context/#comment-4300 Tue, 26 Jan 2016 11:09:31 +0000 http://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=1451#comment-4300 In reply to Peter Burton.

Thanks Peter. I appreciate the encouragement.

]]> By: Peter Burton https://brianharrisauthor.com/of-tall-poppies-mateship-and-pragmatism-spirituality-in-the-australasian-context/#comment-4298 Tue, 26 Jan 2016 01:21:37 +0000 http://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=1451#comment-4298 Thank you Brian – that is refreshing and wonderfully though provoking- an absolute gem !

]]> By: Monica O'Neil https://brianharrisauthor.com/of-tall-poppies-mateship-and-pragmatism-spirituality-in-the-australasian-context/#comment-4297 Tue, 26 Jan 2016 00:42:32 +0000 http://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=1451#comment-4297 I resonate with so much of this Brian.
My mum told me of her dad going out after work to collect and chaperone the dead drunk men home from the pub. On an occasion or two, he was ‘given a serve’ of the displeasure of the man’s wife, thinking Poppy had got them drunk. He would come home a bit late, rather beaten, explain to nanna and eat his now cold dinner. To mum, and nanna this was real Christian faith, not ‘that poppycock’ she listened to in church every week. She was an active church member with a lively personal faith. She hated religious pretence – they lived this kind of Australian spiritual.

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