October 2006
- Kliene Orgelmesse (28 Oct 06)
St. Philip's celebration of the combined festival of All Souls and All Saints will include Joseph Haydn's eucharistic setting the Missa brevis Sancti joannis de Deo in B♭(Hob. XXI 1.7) ...
- A spiritually dangerous movement (28 Oct 06)
In Dr Peter Jensen's important address on the Anglican Communion to the 2006 meeting of Diocese of Sydney's Synod he is modest about the role he expects his diocese to ...
- Changing Attitude Australia Inc (28 Oct 06)
It's good to see the steady development of Changing Attitude Australia since its establishment a few months ago. As the well-crafted website explains its mission is to move forward the ...
- Pray that they will come and see (28 Oct 06)
Please pray that God will direct and empower St. Philip's Come and see catechumenate. The Candidates -- pray that they will be prepared and guided by the Spirit in their ...
- Collection chaos (27 Oct 06)
This made me chuckle; maybe I'm on too many church rosters -- sidesperson lay minister occasional preacher singer etc etc. I add that I do sit on the left side ...
- The skill of the putdown (27 Oct 06)
The rhetoric of understated disdain by Peter Bolt. The Australian Church Record Issue 1890 October 2006Sometimes the skill of the putdown lies simply in adopting the right tone. At other ...
- The goodness of Guy (27 Oct 06)
Guy Sebastian is interesting in an interview with the Herald Sun yesterday:You've spoken about how you got a lot of negativity from the public a few years ago people spray-painting ...
- Neither progressive nor liberated (24 Oct 06)
John Heard criticises Jonestown Chris Masters' biography of influential conservative commentator Alan Jones as "blatant homophobia" "It's outrageous " he says "to pick on gays just because they happen to be ...
- The idolatrous begged elephant (24 Oct 06)
The Synod of the Anglican Diocese of Sydney last night adopted a motion that supports the 'Primates of the Global South'.Synod commends the Primates of the Global South for their ...
- Documented incompetence (23 Oct 06)
The documentation of the US (and consequently the Australian) incompetence in Iraq continues to mount up. For example: State of Denial: Bush at War Part III by Bob Woodward. Simon ...
- Giving evidence (23 Oct 06)
James and I had our 15 seconds (10 minutes actually) when we gave evidence last Friday before the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission's Inquiry Same-sex: same entitlements. Ours was ...
- Birds' nests and metanoia (22 Oct 06)
From October to December St Mark's here in Canberra is honoured by a visit from poet and spiritual director Fr Michael McCarthy. An Irish Catholic priest Fr McCarthy was born ...
- Awe and humility (22 Oct 06)
Today was our celebration of Creation Sunday. This painting Water is one of four painting on the wall of our church depicting earth water fire and the Spirit. Our ...
- The verdicts first, trial later, maybe (19 Oct 06)
"Let the jury consider their verdict " the King said for about the twentieth time that day. "No no!" said the Queen. "Sentence first--verdict afterwards." "Stuff and nonsense!" said Alice ...
- Equally valued participants (18 Oct 06)
The 2006 General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand confirmed and earlier decision that the church "may not accept for training license ordain or induct anyone involved ...
- An invitation to a journey (16 Oct 06)
Come and see!Perhaps:. . . you've never been to church; yet you may have questions about God Jesus and Christian life.. . . you've moved away from Christian faith and ...
- Erase hate (14 Oct 06)
Thursday last 12 October was the eighth anniversary of the death of Matthew Shepard. How quickly we forget. And how quickly we forget that he is but one of too ...
- The crimes of incompetence (14 Oct 06)
"The Human Cost of the War in Iraq: A Mortality Study 2002-2006" has been completed by Gilbert Burnham and others from the Bloomberg School of Public Health Johns Hopkins University ...
- Sanity from Wales (12 Oct 06)
Of the differing views of the provinces of the Anglican Communion frequently it has been those of the Celtic churches--Scotland Wales and Ireland--that have been the most sane often because ...
- The singing of birds (12 Oct 06)
Best of any song is bird song in the quiet but first you must have the quiet. Wendell Berry. 1997.I in A timbered choir: the Sabbath poems 1979-1997. New York ...
- Wisdom on North Korea (12 Oct 06)
Jimmy Carter writes with wisdom in the New York Times (11 Oct o6) on "Solving the Korean stalemate". He makes it clear that North Korea is not the only party ...
- Prophet in the Greenhouse (11 Oct 06)
I am impressed by this speech by Mr Peter Garrett AM MP Member for Kingsford Smith given in Parliament on Monday. (House of Representatives Hansard 9 October pp.48-9). As might ...
- Amish Economy (10 Oct 06)
The recent shooting horror visited on the Amish people of Lancaster County PA puts me in mind of yet another fine poem by Wendell Berry.Amish Economy We live by mercy ...
- The mentor and royal free speech (10 Oct 06)
On 20 August Oliver Marre commented in The Observer that "A radical cat was to be set among the pigeons of Anglican traditionalism" aided by Prince Charles. A manuscript had ...
- So there! (09 Oct 06)
This picture published by Chosun Ilbo seems to encapsulate North Korea's mood. I'm no apologist for the North Korean régime but it's easy to understand its thinking "You've got ...
- Empty objective (09 Oct 06)
For a few weeks now I've been slowly pondering Wendell Berry's wonderful A timbered choir poems. Most of the poems focus on Berry's reflections on family and his natural surrounds. ...
- Waygook? (09 Oct 06)
In the midst of all the drama about the North's nuclear weapons Seoul newspaper Chosun Ilbo has the odd spot. It reports that the latest hot-selling tee-shirt in Seoul's in ...
- Let love be fed (08 Oct 06)
It was my turn to preach today and it fell to me to give a sermon on Mark 10.2-16 in which Jesus teaches about divorce. A tricky subject!. Later in ...
- Who goes to Lambeth? (05 Oct 06)
A piece in The Telegraph (2 Oct 06) by Jonathan Petre Religion Correspondent says that "conservative Anglican leaders" are urging the Archbishop of Canterbury to crack down on gay clergy ...
- Louise Pratt (05 Oct 06)
Western Australian upper house parliamentarian Louise Pratt won the top spot on the Australian Labor Party's Senate ticket in a preselection ballot on 4 October pushing frontbencher Senator Mark Bishop ...
- Handel to look forward to (02 Oct 06)
The Canberra Handel Choir is a chamber choir of experienced singers formed earlier in 2006. The debut concert in May was a brilliant sucess -- with a standing ovation from ...
- Questions worth asking (01 Oct 06)
This statement by Inclusive Church asks questions worth asking.The end of the Communion? 1.0 As a result of the statements issued by the meeting of the Primates of the "Global ...
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