March 2004
- Weighty matters (30 Mar 04)
In the Chicago Theological Seminary Register 93(2): 41-47 Summer 2003 Mary Castellanos writes on "Justice peace community." She reflects on the response of faith communities to the U.S. initiation of ...
- Stark choice? (29 Mar 04)
I've just read a review of Gay and lesbian theologies: repetitions with critical difference by Elizabeth Stuart (Ashgate 2003). "If one were in any doubt about the deepening conservatism of ...
- Sic transit gloria (29 Mar 04)
It is astonishing the amount of discussion there has been about Ian Thorpe's mishap. But once again Thorpe has it right accepting the disqualification with good humour. "One of my ...
- Our 'deep mistaken chivalry' (27 Mar 04)
"Weighing in" from The spirit level by Seamus Heaney. (London Faber and Faber 1966): The 56 lb. weight. A solid iron Unit of negation. Stamped and cast With an inset ...
- Oneself in three words (22 Mar 04)
Ian Thorpe is celebrated as a young man of unusual temperament and abilities a leading sportsman with a discriminating eye for interior design fashion and architecture who remains modest and ...
- The authentic stamp of diversity (20 Mar 04)
A curious and reassuring thing I find about reading is that when I'm thinking a lot about something relevant bits and pieces pop up in unexpected places. I found this ...
- Nowhere but the reverence of the heart (19 Mar 04)
Over the west side of this mountain that's lyrebird country. I could go down there they say in the early morning and I'd see them I'd hear them.Ten years and ...
- A long weekend (18 Mar 04)
Last Monday was a holiday to celebrate Canberra Day our city's anniversary. So in the true Australian tradition there was a long weekend.For us the weekend began with house hunting ...
- Exit strategy? (17 Mar 04)
At election time in Australia as well as in a certain large Pacific neighbour ... from Iraq Afghanistan East Timor the Solomons and New Guinea . . . Next year ...
- Pre-ordained (17 Mar 04)
In his MEMO column in The Christian Century 3 March 2004 Martin Marty observes that although blessing of gay marriage/unions is embroiled in politics the ordination of GLBT people is ...
- No way of knowing (16 Mar 04)
At last I have got my hands on Robin Scrogg's much-quoted The New Testament and Homosexuality (1983). Some extracts:What [Paul] would have said about the contemporary model of adult/adult mutuality ...
- No strangers to anger (08 Mar 04)
Like an alcoholic's willingness to be open to the possibility of not drinking today our willingness to be open to forgiving those who someday may seek our forgiveness is often ...
- Silence is no answer (07 Mar 04)
In The Guardian of 6 March 2004 Canon Marilyn McCord Adams Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford University commented on Bishop Gene Robinson's withdrawal from speaking at the Oxford Union ...
- St. Truman? (07 Mar 04)
... I started to think about God again ... and to understand that ... that everything was His design the old moon and the new moon the hard rain falling; ...
- Hints and guesses (04 Mar 04)
Men's curiosity searches past and future And clings to that dimension. But to apprehend The point of intersection of the timeless With time is an occupation for the saint - ...
- We are all exiles : Hebrews 11.8-10 (04 Mar 04)
By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to set out for a place that he was to receive as an inheritance. And he set out not knowing where he ...
- Courage humans! (04 Mar 04)
"Courage men! The human beings may yet defeat the politicians." Thus Alistair Cooke ended the foreword to Talk about America: 1951-1968. This week he announced his retirement at age 95 ...
- Jesus and the outsider (01 Mar 04)
In the previous post I quoted Desmund Tutu that no one must be an outsider to the church. But he would also agree that Jesus is where the outsiders are.There ...
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