December 2006
- Power in the abstract (31 Dec 06)
Yesterday to the National Gallery. I was delighted by the new arrangement of the main galleries with new lighting -- especially the South and Southeast Asian galleries. We saw Grace Crowley: ...
- An old-fashioned colonial hanging (31 Dec 06)
Saddam's crimes were loathesome but so is hanging and so has been the incompetence and cynicism of the "coalition of the willing". I'm close to agreement with Tariq Ali's invective ...
- Left, right, faith and equality (30 Dec 06)
Two Christians one from the left and one from the right who have chosen equality -- Peter Garrett MP the Shadow Minister for Heritage the Environment and the Arts has ...
- Boooooring (29 Dec 06)
Today's TV program is hopelessly optimistic. England has been humiliated again -- this time by an innings and 99 runs in less than three days at the MCG bowled out ...
- Pray for Bethlehem (24 Dec 06)
The Times reports a powerful attack by the Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams who accuses the British US [and by implication the Australian] governments of endangering the lives and ...
- Fires and global warming? (20 Dec 06)
The Bureau of Meteorology reports that most of the bushfire fire-affected areas in Victoria and elsewhere are having their worst year -- and in many cases worst decade -- of ...
- I-Pod bulge (19 Dec 06)
When I opened my copy of the latest edition of a well known newsmagazine this picture was in my face across a two-page spread. More evidence (if one needed any) ...
- Sleepers sleep on (19 Dec 06)
The last couple of weeks I've been doing battle with J.S. Bach's famed cantata Sleepers Wake! (Wachet Auf). A couple of week's ago I attended the Canberra Choral Society's Christmas ...
- Royale blue (14 Dec 06)
James and I enjoyed the new Bond flick "Casino Royale" the other day. Up 'till now I haven't liked most James Bond films. The bad guys are just too unreal ...
- Consecration (14 Dec 06)
This is an event I look forward to. The Archbishop of Adelaide The Most Reverend Jeffrey Driver invites Mr Brian McKinlay To join in worship at The Episcopal Ordination of ...
- Living a dilemna (13 Dec 06)
Neela Banerjee writes in the New York Times (12 Dec 06) on the dilemna of being a gay evangelical Christian. For example Justin Lee who has set up a web ...
- A.C.T. tries again (12 Dec 06)
The Australian Capital Territory's Attorney General Simon Corbell today presented the Civil Partnerships Bill 2006 in the Legislative Assembly. The bill replaces Civil Unions Act 2006 which was disallowed by ...
- Sledging The Block (12 Dec 06)
An appeals court has decided that a Sydney radio station cannot argue in an administrative tribunal that anti-hate laws are unconstitutional. Broadcasters John Laws and Steve Price used the words ...
- Norway gives the lead. Australia to follow? (11 Dec 06)
On 1 December at the Third Session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva Ambassador Stommen of Norway made the following statement on behalf of 54 nations:I have the honour ...
- Sweltering Messiah (10 Dec 06)
At a peak of 42.1 °C Melbourne yesterday endured its hottest December day for 53 years. Despite a change to cool winds fire fighters are bracing for conditions to worsen. ...
- The Advent challenge: a sermon (09 Dec 06)
A sermon for the Second Sunday of Advent 10 December 2006 Malachi 3.1-14; The Song of Zechariah; Luke 3.1-6 During Advent this year we're sharing together the four traditional themes ...
- Break their bonds (08 Dec 06)
"He comes the prisoners to release In Satan's bondage held." Archbishop of Canterbury's Christmas Message to the Anglican Communion begins by quoting these words from one of Dr Williams's favourite ...
- Smoke not rain (08 Dec 06)
This is smoke not a rain cloud. Firefighters in Victoria struggle with massive blazes and a number of towns and regions are on high alert ahead of forecast extreme ...
- The Poms and the Princess or the Pope (07 Dec 06)
Flicking through the mags checking the tsunami diet the asylum seeker's boob job and Terry Schiavo's horoscope I asked myself 'If Camilla can become Princess of Wales why can't ...
- Leadership and fully fledged intellectualism (05 Dec 06)
I agree with Phillip Adams who writes that "Owlish Kevin Rudd is the right man for the Labor Party leadership but his greatest disadvantage may well be his suspiciously high ...
- Forbidden to follow (02 Dec 06)
As in every year several events come on top of each other this week: St. Andrew's Day (30 November) which in our Diocese is the usual day for ordinations World ...
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