August 2005
- Ways to freedom (31 Aug 05)
I'm just beginning to read The Four Agreements: a practical guide to personal freedom by Don Miguel Ruiz (Amber-Allen 1997).Everything we do is based on agreements we have made--agreements with ...
- Attracted by understatement (20 Aug 05)
'Alexandra' is an art teacher from in the English Midlands. Her discovery of the male form as a major subject for her work came by accident when one of her ...
- Singing Hallelujah! (20 Aug 05)
CAMRA the Canberra Academy of Music and Related Arts a community music society that that performa in our parish church at St. Philip's. Many of our parish members also are ...
- Speak hopefully or be silent (20 Aug 05)
Thinking Anglicans helpfully draws attention to this article (19 August) on civil partnerships by the Rt Revd Dr Peter Selby Bishop of Worcester. Concerning committed same-sex partnerships Bishop Selby says ...
- John McKinlay and the radar war (16 Aug 05)
The 60th anniversary of VJ Day 15 August prompts me to post this story written by my father who as I described in an earlier post was a radar specialist ...
- The duty of conscience (14 Aug 05)
Accordingly to a somewhat overwrought story in The Telegraph (8 August) a number of gay British clergy are to defy the bishops over 'no-sex' unions some saying that they had ...
- Not all the tribes (14 Aug 05)
Yesterday evening James and I attended a joyous celebration to mark to completion of a building extension for our former parish. The service was wonderful and the hospitality superb. We ...
- Faithful paradox (14 Aug 05)
A few extracts from an interview between the Most Rev. Frank T. Griswold Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church of the USA and Frank Lockwood of the Lexington Herald-Leader (13 ...
- Clean, complex and light (13 Aug 05)
The 3 Variable Funny Test by Jason Bateman at OkCupid says that my stye of humour is that of the " Prankster" (whatever that means) -- 19% dark 30% spontaneous ...
- happier with not too much information (13 Aug 05)
In thinking about the way some African church leaders were quoted recently as "disowning" the CofE Andrew Brown (Church Times 5 Aug) ponders the dangers of too much information -- ...
- Nouwen's angst (12 Aug 05)
Thanks to a link on Bending the rule I've just seen a review of Wounded prophet: a portrait of Henri J M Nouwen by Michael Ford (London: Darton Longman and ...
- Canberra snow job (10 Aug 05)
Yes Virginia it does snow in Canberra (though not often). Icy cold Antarctic air today brought snow showers to Canberra and good falls on the nearby mountains as low ...
- Blacknailed (10 Aug 05)
Perhaps this picture of a certain much respected Australian sportsman bears out the words of Australian punk rocker turned jazz crooner Ignatius Jones "Clothes . . . are clothes. . ...
- Bishops' statement gonged (07 Aug 05)
Recently I quoted "Love is the answer" a piece by Giles Fraser in The Guardian of 29 July in which he comments on the Church of England's response to the ...
- Sudan: hope and sadness (07 Aug 05)
The Sudanese community in Australia has been deeply saddened by the death of Sudan's First Vice President and the President of the Government of Southern Sudan Dr John Garang de ...
- Niether Nor (06 Aug 05)
My internet friend Christopher of Bending the rule has written the following protest. I agree with it so completely that I could have said it myself. So I hope Christopher ...
- Might read these (06 Aug 05)
In the Church Times of 5 August the Rt Revd Derek Rawcliffe former Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway reviews six books on Christianity and sexuality. Two of the books reviwed ...
- Gold in the frost (06 Aug 05)
Daffodils are my favourite flower. I love their yellows and golds bringing an early message of spring. But the Canberra climate confuses them. Thanks to James' plantings there are dozens ...
- The Afro-Anglican Toronto Accord (05 Aug 05)
The Third Afro-Anglicanism Conference recently concluded in Toronto. In opening the nine-day conference Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane of Cape Town urged black Anglicans to share and live out the Southern African ...
- Overpopulated fishbowl (03 Aug 05)
In an earlier post on Google Earth I commented on the great detail that can now be seen in photography from satellites -- and I am sure the Western military ...
- Ballooning blogosphere (03 Aug 05)
In its latest State of the Blogosphere report Part 1 Technorati says that one new blog is created 'every second'. It now tracks more than 14.4m blogs up from 7.8m ...
- Anniversary (02 Aug 05)
June Norton McKinlay née Hitchcock daughter of William and Judith sister of Nanette wife of John mother of Brian Robin Pauline and Noella Ann grandmother of Karen Tracy and Victoria ...
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