September 2005
- Willing to be touched (26 Sep 05)
I said I was done with notes about our Synod a couple of weeks back. But now that our local Anglican newspaper has quoted some of Dr Stephen Pickard's Synod ...
- Apollo, Britten and Bach (25 Sep 05)
The Australian Chamber Orchestra led by Richard Tognetti with Steven Osborne pianist last night played Mozart's Adagio and Fugue K.546 and Piano Concerto No. 12 in A K.414. In the ...
- Intuition, not Quake (24 Sep 05)
Err . . . another internet test discovered thanks to *Christopher's "Friday Test" post. My results are rather as I expected and rather less brilliant than *Christopher's! I try hard ...
- Enough blather: a rant (23 Sep 05)
In yet another beat up article about Anglican divisions Reuters (20 Sep) quotes the Church Times editor to say that "Anglicans face spectre of schism over gay rights." I think ...
- Sigh (22 Sep 05)
Catholic World News reports (10 Sep) that Pope Benedict XVI has approved a new Vatican instruction that that homosexual men should not be admitted to seminaries even if they are ...
- Chusok (20 Sep 05)
Chusok "autumn evening" is a Korean harvest festival on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month. In Korea this year the Chusok holidays extended over three days Saturday 17th ...
- Living the Mission (18 Sep 05)
For my last item flowing out of the Synod last week I want to take note of its theme Living the Mission. For much the past ten years led by ...
- Australian churches covenanting together (18 Sep 05)
Two more items last weekend's local Synod and then I'm done! The Synod decided to encourage action to put into practice locally a covenant made last year between most of ...
- Legislated communion (16 Sep 05)
More Synod stuff; from Thinking Anglicans I learn of a decision by the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) to redefine the basis of its relationship with other Anglican Churches. The ...
- Life-giving justice (15 Sep 05)
One of the small tasks of the Synod was to launch a booklet (which I helped to draft) "to focus our thinking prayer and action for life giving justice" as ...
- Justice, equity and the war on terror (15 Sep 05)
If we are to live with the expectation of the "Promised Land" we should replace the language of a "war on terror" with the language of serving justice and ...
- Welcome to come out (13 Sep 05)
The theme of the Canberra and Goulburn Synod last weekend was Living the mission. A highlight was the Bishop's annual presidential address. Our Bishop the Rt Revd George Browning ...
- Together (08 Sep 05)
No entries for a few days as I'm off to Goulburn to attend the first three-day session of the 42nd Synod of the Anglican Diocese of Canberra and Goulburn. The ...
- Student's prayer (08 Sep 05)
I'm encouraged by this oft-quoted prayer of St. Thomas Aquinas but slightly peeved that I can't track down its source or the Latin original!Creator of all things true source of ...
- Learning the notes (07 Sep 05)
To help learn the bass chorus parts of Messiah I've been playing them over and over while following from the score. My long time favourite recording is by Sir John ...
- Naked in the street (06 Sep 05)
I'm not sure why the events in New Orleans have so captured my attention; bad as they are the situation in Darfur and Niger is much much worse for example. ...
- We all will be received (05 Sep 05)
The Mississippi Delta was shining Like a national guitar I am following the river Down the highway Through the cradle of the civil war I'm going to Graceland Graceland . ...
- Eaten away inside (04 Sep 05)
I wonder if it makes sense to get angry against a disease? I am really upset today about cancer. Almost all of my relatives who have died during my lifetime ...
- Who sinned, these men or their fathers? (03 Sep 05)
Like many others I've been wrestling with my thoughts in response to Hurricane Katrina's devastation of New Orleans. The hurricane was simply a natural physical process glorious yet terrible. We ...
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