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December 2004

  • Preston paintings and prints (30 Dec 04)
    'Wheelflower' c.1929 woodblock print 44.2 x 44.1 cm collection of the National Gallery of AustraliaMargaret Preston (1875-1963) is among my favorite Australian artists. Preston is especially known for her woodblock ...
  • Long life (27 Dec 04)
    The Telegraph (UK) on 27 December 2004 reports research showing that regular churchgoers live longer than non-believers. A 12-year study tracking mortality rates of more than 550 adults over the ...
  • More than a statistic (27 Dec 04)
    It is easy to feel compassion after a single sad death. But it is impossible to identify oneself with the feelings around more than 30 000 90 000 130 000 ...
  • Reading (25 Dec 04)
    I'm using some of the summer holidays to sort out my books after the chaos of the move to a new house. Every now and then I unearth a small ...
  • "Immanuel" (25 Dec 04)
    In Matthew's account two names are given for the child born in Bethlehem; Jesus which means 'saviour' ("for he will save his people from their sins " Mt. 1.12) and ...
  • Ignored (25 Dec 04)
    A couple of days ago came a not so pleasant Christmas gift from the Australian federal government which has published a new National Framework for Human Rights for lodgment with ...
  • Nicholas (19 Dec 04)
    Get rid of Santa Claus. St. Nicholas is the real deal. The Saint Nicholas Centre and the St. Nicholas Society have just two of the the fascinating web sites about ...
  • Santa's boot (19 Dec 04)
    Cartoon by WB Dyson published in The Age 14 December 2004. ChristmasThe bells of waiting Advent ring The Tortoise stove is lit again And lamp-oil light across the night ...
  • More of the endless dicsussion (16 Dec 04)
    The Advent pastoral letter (29 November 2004) of the Archbishop of Canberbury Rowan Williams is worth reading carefully. togther with a response from the Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement. ...
  • Polio - forgotten but not gone? (14 Dec 04)
    Until the discovery of a vaccine in the 1950s 4 million Australians were infected by the polio virus some 40 000 in its most severe paralytic form. The National Museum ...
  • Whose is bigger? (08 Dec 04)
    Here's another in my "South is up!" campaign. Sometimes Americans and Australians forget just how big each other's country is. The idea of Buy nothing at Christmas seem to be ...
  • Allelulia, humbug! (05 Dec 04)
    On NPR's All Things Considered 2 December 2004 (broadcast in Australia on ABC Newsradio) John Boykin asks "Can the 'Christ' Be Kept in Christmas?" For years the retail aspects of ...
  • Branching out in Advent (04 Dec 04)
    Each year rather than a Christmas meal St. Philip's celebrates the opening of the new church year and the coming of the festive season with an Advent dinner. James and ...
  • America and a different kind of election (02 Dec 04)
    While studying Wolfhart Panennberg's magnificent Systematic theology recently I came across this extract from an "Excursus: secular belief in election and nationalism." [The doctrine of election being the belief that ...
  • Wangaratta women (01 Dec 04)
    Albury New South Wales newspaper The Border Mail reports that the Synod of the Anglican Diocese of Wangaratta one of the few Dioceses in Australia currently without women priests has ...
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