March 2006
- Outraged and deeply saddened (31 Mar 06)
ACT Chief Minister Jon Stanhope says he is prepared to establish separate Territory civil union celebrants to overcome Commonwealth objections to the proposed law. Federal Attorney-General Philip Ruddock has declared ...
- The pretentions of final truth (30 Mar 06)
The philosopher is anxious to arrive at the truth; but he is also anxious to prove that his particular truth is the truth. He is never as completely in possession ...
- Civil unions in Canberra (30 Mar 06)
Last week the Australian Capital Territory's (Australian Labor Party) Chief Minister Jon Stanhope kept his promise to bring into the Legislative Assembly a new law for same-sex and opposite-sex civil ...
- June Norton Hitchcock McKinlay 1922 – 2004 (30 Mar 06)
June was born at home on 31 May 1922 in Edithvale Victoria. She was the elder daughter of William and Frances Judith Hitchcock -- Bill and Judy. Her sister is ...
- Cranmer's contribution to the English reformation (28 Mar 06)
March 21st was the 450th anniversary of the death of Archbishop Thomas Cranmer. How important and how durable was Cranmer's contribution to the English reformation? The English reformation was complex ...
- Twenty years in Canberra (27 Mar 06)
Last Friday 24th June was the 20th anniversary of my migration from Melbourne to Canberra. I was recruited to join the Parliamentary Library as Chief Information Specialist Science Technology and ...
- Arresting Constable (27 Mar 06)
Recently we saw the NGA's Constable: Impressions of Land Sea and Sky. The show has only a small number of John Constable's large pictures including Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's ...
- My Games picks and a question (27 Mar 06)
These some of my choices of interesting athletes at the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne -- my home city. Despite all the hoopla however James and I found the opening and ...
- Enough backbone to be conscientious? (27 Mar 06)
By the Revd Canon Marilyn McCord Adams Regius Professor of Divinity and canon of Christ Church Oxford from The Guardian 25 March 2006Liberal tolerance is easy even for liberals to ...
- More truly reverential (25 Mar 06)
Who that knows anything of the conditions of human knowledge of the difficulties of the search for truth and of the innumerable influences that affect human beliefs can for a ...
- The Land below the wind (24 Mar 06)
Years ago I had the privilege of working for two years as an Australian Volunteer Abroad as Head of the English Language Division of the Sabah State Library [ Perpustakaan ...
- Constructive, Christ-like alternatives (23 Mar 06)
Titusonenine recently posted an extract from "Climbing Brokeback Mountain with the Anglicans" an opinion piece in the Orlando Sentinel by Professor David C. Steinmetz of Duke University's Divinity School. His ...
- My small span (21 Mar 06)
The Prayer of the Bee Lord I am not one to despise your gifts. May You be blessed Who spreads the richness of Your sweetness for my zeal . . ...
- Yet another personality test (19 Mar 06)
Looking much like a row of military decorations this bar from "personal dna" purports to describe my personality. [Hat tip to Rebel Prince] As often with such tests it alleges ...
- Time out (17 Mar 06)
This is the view from my office but I won't be seeing it for a few days as I'm taking a break from everything (including this journal); back in a ...
- A hard working Thai politician (15 Mar 06)
It's interesting when personal acquaintance opens a window on international affairs in this case Thai politics. Watching at a distance the present political upheavals in Thailand I remember a friend of ...
- Communion yes, but do we need 'The Communion'? (13 Mar 06)
Stephen Bates religious affairs correspondent of The Guardian writing in the "View from Fleet Street" column of the the Church of England Newspaper on 3 March 2006 reproduced by Thinking ...
- Bonhoeffer and a two bob watch. (13 Mar 06)
Perhaps my greatest problem is anxiety. Not panic just constant gnawing anxiety. The little white pills help and I don't need many. Prayer is important. Sheer quiet is wonderful but ...
- Whose love we experience (12 Mar 06)
Dr Peter Jensen Anglican Archbishop of Sydney wrote recently against the idea that it is a new 'heresy' to be sure of anything. I appreciate what Dr Jensen is saying; ...
- Shamed by all that was respectable (11 Mar 06)
In Episcopal Life (March 2005) Jerry Hames writes about about a series of icons for the Stations of the Cross created by Gwyneth Leech and installed at St. Paul's on ...
- A cagey Nigerian game (10 Mar 06)
Following a meeting of the Standing Committee of the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) on 22-25 February 2006 presided over by the Most Revd Peter Akinola the Committee issued a ...
- Stabat Mater (10 Mar 06)
Stabat Mater by Giovanni Pergolesi will be performed as part of our Good Friday worship this year at St Philip's Anglican Church O'Connor. Stabat Mater is a thirteenth-century hymn in ...
- Bloodless (09 Mar 06)
There are reports that Scottish activists will protest the ban by ScotBlood the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service on the donation of blood by gay men. Similar campaigns have taken ...
- McKinley, McKinlay, M'Kinlay, M'Kinley, MacKinlay, MacKinley, M'Ginley, McGinley, Mc'Inley, McKindley, M'Kindley . . . (09 Mar 06)
One of the things they cared less about in the past than we do now was spelling including it seems the spelling of names. Take my surname McKinlay for instance ...
- The more we know, the more we ponder (08 Mar 06)
Give to us open minds O God minds ready to receive and to welcome such new light of knowledge as it is Thy will to reveal. Let not the past ...
- Always horrific (08 Mar 06)
I've made a few entries in this journal about the war service of my forebears. This does not mean that I admire war but to understand one's parent and grandparents ...
- Exit (08 Mar 06)
It's amazing the attention generated by the withdrawal of Ian Thorpe from Australia's Commonwealth Games team due to severe illness. (Grant Hackett is another popular figure unable to take ...
- Dealing with disagreement (07 Mar 06)
I'm glad that publication of the a transcript makes it possible to consider in more complete context what the Archbishop of Canterbury the Most Revd Dr Rowan Williams said in ...
- Prayer from the wilderness (06 Mar 06)
And the Spirit immediately drove [Jesus] out into the wilderness. He was in the wilderness forty days tempted by Satan; and he was with the wild beasts; and the angels ...
- Fundamental(ist) rupture/rapture (06 Mar 06)
Arhbishop Rowan Williams has told the BBC that the Anglican Church faces a fundamental "rupture" on the issue of homosexuality. He said he feared any split could take decades to ...
- Feathers or football? (06 Mar 06)
In the words of David Lewis writing in the Courier Mail and elsewhere "Forget the floats and feathers of Saturday night's gay and lesbian Mardi Gras the most eye-catching ...
- A handle on mortality (05 Mar 06)
In the BBC's Thought for the Day for 2 March 2006 The Rev. Dr Giles Fraser reminded his hearers that Lent begins with the message that we are mortal.Yesterday I ...
- Nigerian church turns to policies of the Inquisition (04 Mar 06)
My thanks to the ever-alert compilers of Thinking Anglicans for spotting an article in The Vanguard (4 March 06) discussing the Nigerian government's recent actions against homosexuals. The article quotes ...
- Hermit nation (03 Mar 06)
Picture of the Year International has some wonderful pictures often stark and upsetting frequently beautiful. Because of my connections with Korea I am attracted to a series of twelve photographs ...
- Les Mis (03 Mar 06)
The Canberra Philharmonic Society is presenting a new local production of Les Misérables directed by Dianna Nixon. James and I enjoyed the show last night. It was the first time ...
- The vast open sky (03 Mar 06)
The National Gallery of Australia recently acquired this untitled 1977 55cm x 75cm landscape by Fred Williams (1927-1982) Australia's finest C20th landscape painter. It depicts the low rounded hills ...
- Dr Williams, please act now (03 Mar 06)
Open letter sent by Inclusive Church raising the position of Changing Attitude Nigeria and Integrity Uganda The Archbishop of Canterbury Lambeth Palace London SE1 21st February 2006 Dear Archbishop Inclusive ...
- Labor on gay and lesbian law reform (01 Mar 06)
Nicola Roxon MP Shadow Attorney-General Tanya Plibersek MP Member for Sydney Joint media release 1 March 2006 Labor recommits to gay and lesbian law reform This week the Labor Caucus ...
- My one and only Brokeback Mountain comment (01 Mar 06)
Brokeback Mountain the movie must be seen as an example of cinematic art not a pro-gay (or anti-gay) polemic. I read Annie Proulx's short story in the 1997 New Yorker ...
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