August 2006
- Merdeka (31 Aug 06)
Today 31 August is Malaysia's national day the 49th anniversary of the then Federation of Malaya's independence from Britain. It's disappointing that worried by debate over freedom of religion the ...
- all-consecrating Sabbath (31 Aug 06)
I've just bought Wendell Berry's A Timbered choir: the Sabbath Poems 1979-1997. Already I'm struck by this poem; it reflects where I'm at myself right now. I'll enjoy this book! ...
- Bloody mindedness (31 Aug 06)
31 August 2006 The General Manager National Blood Authority Locked Bag 8430 CANBERRA ACT 2601 The Age reports today that Australians are being urged to donate blood immediately with current ...
- Betjeman (27 Aug 06)
Cocooned in Time at this inhuman height The packaged food tastes neutrally of clay We never seem to catch the running day But travel on in everlasting night With all ...
- Clan MacFarlane (25 Aug 06)
Although I am a third and fourth generation Australian I have long wanted to have a connection to my ancestral Scottish clan. But the McKinlay name is claimed by several ...
- Our life and our death is with our neighbour (22 Aug 06)
I've been studying Rowan Williams' Silence and honey cakes: the wisdom of the desert a series of talks that draws on the wisdom of the desert fathers and mothers. Perhaps ...
- Mr Thorpe, privacy, and respect (20 Aug 06)
Melbourne's Sunday Herald Sun of 20 Aug 06 is just one of many papers to report at length a full-length interview given by Mr Ian Thorpe OAM in response to ...
- China welcomes Dr Williams and curbs churches (19 Aug 06)
ACNS (10 August 06) reports that the Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams is to visit China from 8-23rd October at the invitation of the senior leadership of the 'post-denominational' ...
- Superannuants support same sex couples (19 Aug 06)
For some years the Superannuated Commonwealth Officers' Association (SCOA) has been pursuing the payment of superannuation death benefits for members of same sex couples. SCOA represents superannuated former employees of ...
- Australia's longest war (17 Aug 06)
18 August 2006 is Australia's Vietnam Veterans' Day and the 40th Anniversary of the Battle of Long Tan. It was the first significant engagement for the 1st Australian Task Force ...
- Greens v. Exclusive Brethren (15 Aug 06)
The Australian Senate today defeated 59 to 4 a proposal by Senator Bob Brown Leader of the Australian Greens that a Senate committee investigate and report on:The role of the ...
- Defending God? (14 Aug 06)
Note to press: being Christian is not anti-gay James A Lopata In Newsweekly Boston 10 Aug 2006.Are Christianity and homosexuality antithetical to each other? You might be led to that ...
- Bread or rice pudding? A sermon (13 Aug 06)
Tenth Sunday after Pentecost 13 August 2006 I Kings 19.4-8 John 6.35 41-51 What is the matter with Mary Jane? She's crying with all her might and main And she ...
- Churches united in solidarity with Gaza's people (05 Aug 06)
Christian Churches are unified in their solidarity with the people of Gaza. Episcopal News Service reports a Caritas statement that on July 29 Caritas Jerusalem's President Monsignor Michel Sabbah the ...
- Inquiry into hypocrisy (and my 15 seconds) (05 Aug 06)
In the Sydney Mornig Herald today (5 Aug 06) Adele Horin writes about the Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission's current National Inquiry into Discrimination against People in Same-Sex ...
- Temps vierge (03 Aug 06)
The contemplative life must provide an area a space of liberty of silence in which possibilities are allowed to surface and new choices -- beyond routine choice -- become manifest. ...
- Get censused! (02 Aug 06)
With census night on 8 August 2006 the Australian Coalition for Equality has reminded same-sex couples and people with differing gender identities that it is important they be counted in ...
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