April 2007
- Rain on Bundanoon's parade (30 Apr 07)
The Bundanoon is Brigadoon highland gathering is a great day and one of the largest such events anywhere. (The title comes from the Brigadoon myth.) A small town in the ...
- Comfortable in his skin (27 Apr 07)
Singer Anthony Callea has received much goodwill following his recent announcement that he's gay. Callea was a guest panelist on last Wednesday's episode of the ABC's Spicks and Specks ...
- Do the Anglican bishops support Mugabe? Not entirely. (24 Apr 07)
Associated Press (20 April) says that African Anglican bishops have issued a message to Zimbabweans that was broadly supportive of the government sharply contrasting with an earlier call from Catholic ...
- Darling irrigation (20 Apr 07)
This picture of the Darling River accompanied the Fairfax papers' report of the the news that irrigation of much of Australia's farmland will stop in July unless there is heavy ...
- On not being plant blind (19 Apr 07)
Natalie Angier praises plants in an elegant piece in the International Herald Tribune (17 Apr 07).Show somebody a painting of a verdant botanically explicit forest with three elk grazing in ...
- Booting the blues (19 Apr 07)
Congratulations to Australian Football League player Nathan Thompson who said yesterday (Herald-Sun 19 Apr 07) that he has been abused by fans because of his battle with depression. He said ...
- God bearing suffering, not inflicting it (18 Apr 07)
Ekklesia reports (18 Apr 07) that the Anglican Dean of St Albans the Very Revd Dr Jeffrey John received many "abusive and obscene" letters from people who objected to his ...
- Whistling to the pre-programmed (18 Apr 07)
(Image from: 101 uses for a John Howard.com)"Howard is whistling in wind" by Paul Syvret The Courier-Mail 17 April 07 Dog whistles are clever devices. They emit a high-pitched ...
- Another two years of slow bleed (11 Apr 07)
The Archbishop of Canterbury and the President of the United States have in common that they are chosen by one nation to fill a leadership role that touches many nations. ...
- Waterless Easter (09 Apr 07)
Easter Message 2007 The Most Reverend Dr Phillip Aspinall Primate Anglican Church of Australia This year as we follow again Christ's journey to the cross we are surrounded by ...
- In the belly of the fish (08 Apr 07)
In a series of posts (from no. 18693 to no. 18706) Canon Kendal Hermon of TitusOneNine has selected some valuable reflections and prayers on Holy Saturday. This year I felt ...
- Prayers of the people, Easter 2007 (07 Apr 07)
Lord Jesus we rejoice in the good news of your resurrection life! Yet as we pray for the world the church and ourselves our minds hold thoughts and images of ...
- The Easter shout is not enough (07 Apr 07)
Easter Message by the Most Rev Dr Barry Morgan Archbishop of WalesIt is not enough for the Church of Jesus Christ to shout on Easter morning that Christ is risen ...
- Do we want the light to shine? (06 Apr 07)
No bishop is faultless but I am partciualrly glad the the Rt Revd George Browning is our bishop in the Anglican Diocese of Canberra and Goulburn; this is his challenging ...
- The community of the sufferers (06 Apr 07)
The seventeenth century divine Thomas Watson said that it was a greater humiliation for Jesus to be incarnate as a man than it was for him to suffer the cross. ...
- A holy week (06 Apr 07)
This Holy Week is a week of new beginnings for me symbolised by a change in my employment from next Tuesday. So I'm to taking time to reflect by participating ...
- Fearless advice (06 Apr 07)
It's not very often that I agree word-for-word with The Australian's editorial but here I do.Henry crunches the numbers for Howard (5 Apr 07) Treasury fires a shot across the ...
- Safe in Australia? (06 Apr 07)
Anglican Church 'not safe' for gay Christians by Benedict Brook Sydney Star Observer (861 5 Apr 07) The Anglican Church in Australia has admitted it may "not be a safe ...
- A puzzled farewell (05 Apr 07)
After nearly eight years working in the Australian Government's aged care programs it was time to move on. I have a new job in a team developing the next round of ...
- Gays among the victims of Iraq's extremists (02 Apr 07)
Peter Tatchell says that Islamist death squads are systematically targeting gay people for execution in Iraq "in a reign of terror that could soon affect all Iraqis. Mr Thatchell is ...
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