- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- We thank you for their grace and care (11 Nov 06)
Yesterday I attended the annual valedictory eucharist of St. Mark's National Theological Centre. I appreciated the prayers led by Dr Heather Thompson.God of love we pray for friends and family. ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- Wattle and daffodils (24 Sep 06)
The September Equinox has just passed 23 September 2006 at 0433h UTC or 1422h in Eastern Australia. In the South it's our Spring equinox. 'Equinox' derives from aequus and nox ...
- 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' ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- Please help Al Ahli Palestinian hospital in Gaza (23 Jul 06)
AngliCORD is appealing for emergency help for Al Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza. The hospital is a vital institution of the Anglican Diocese of Jerusalem and led by Palestinian Christian ...
- Mistakes (17 Jul 06)
In church a couple of Sundays ago our Rector the Rev'd Rebecca Newland showed the children this picture that she had painted. They were quick to say what was wrong ...
- The school of disappointment (17 Jul 06)
It is indeed natural to us to wish and to plan and it is merciful in the Lord to disappoint our plans and to cross our wishes. For we cannot ...
- A new and horrible evil (16 Jul 06)
Before our Sunday church service this morning two members of Falun Gong in Australia visited on our Rector. Falun Gong the quasi-religious movement outlawed in China says that thousands of ...
- We lay it down (08 Jul 06)
Lord Christ help us to have the courage and humility to name our burdens and lay them down so that we are light to walk across the water to where ...
- Prevention of elder abuse (15 Jun 06)
"No Virginia elder abuse is not when Grandpa swore at you."Stories of horrific sexual assault of the elderly shocked even the most hardened social workers when its prevalence the violence ...
- Pentecost, Jerusalem and the Red Devils (04 Jun 06)
At St. Philip's today we celebrated Pentecost with a service including music in the Taizé style -- the first time I had experienced it. It was joyful but peaceful. There ...
- Life of Brian (28 May 06)
Baby photos can be embarrassing when rediscovered after fifty years but not these fortunately! They have notes on the back written by my mother whose 84th birthday would have been ...
- A secondary concern (27 May 06)
I am not afraid of death though I do sometimes fear the suffering that often accompanies dying. Latterly I've had to work hard to avoid hypochondria and anxiety while working ...
- It's a worry (25 May 06)
Just what I needed to see after way too many medical tests lately.From "Latter Day Psalms" by Chris Ashby: 2. The tree waves in the wind But does not break ...
- Many tongues, one Word (23 May 06)
On Pentecost Sunday our church will read Acts 2.1-21 with verses in each of French German Pidgin Swahili Korean Afrikaans Bontok Shona Russian Thai and Dutch. It falls to me ...
- Breathe easy (20 May 06)
Medical technology company ResMed yesterday won Standards Australia's prestigious Australian Design Award of the Year for its portable S8 AutoSet Spirit flow generator and HumidAire 3i Humidifier system. These gadgets ...
- Encouragement for the melancholy student (19 Apr 06)
There is another very safe and simple way of escape when the dull mood begins to gather round one and that is to turn as promptly and as strenuously as ...
- James : a gallery (17 Apr 06)
Click any picture to see an enlargement and open the slideshow. ...
- I stayed away (15 Apr 06)
I don't like Good Friday; I never have; maybe I'm not supposed to. This year I stayed away from the Good Friday three-hour service. We are commanded to preach Christ ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- My days are swift (25 Feb 06)
My cousin Julie Ann McKinlay Greaves died yesterday after a prolonged struggle with cancer. She was 47. I did not know her very well as we've lived a long distance ...
- York on Gitmo (19 Feb 06)
The Independent (18 Feb) reports that the Archbishop of York the Most Revd. and Rt Hon. Dr John Sentamu has passionately attacked American refusal to close the its prison camps ...
- Home grown Valentine (14 Feb 06)
Red roses aren't a cliché when they come from your own garden (tho' the picture's from the Web). There's a vase of these glorious 'Mister Lincoln' blooms on my office ...
- For the birds (12 Feb 06)
St. Valentine's Day is Tuesday. But James and I are taking advantage of the weekend for a small celebration today. There are numerous legends and accounts of St. Valentine. Wikipedia ...
- Two Dorothys (06 Feb 06)
Today is the feast of St. Dorothy; not a day well noted in church calendars. She is probably apocryphal and her cult was suppressed by the Vatican a decade ago. ...
- Sae hae bok manhi badeseyo (28 Jan 06)
Tomorrow (29 Jan.) is not "Chinese" new year though millions of Chinese celebrate it. It will be the lunar new year also celebrated by Koreans Mongolians and Vietnamese. In earlier ...
- An oft-burnt country (24 Jan 06)
Bush fires are wreaking their all too frequent summer destruction in South Eastern Australia. This pun by Bill Leak ('Bleak') of The Australian strikes home to the many Australians ...
- Merci Jean-Marc (20 Jan 06)
The confusion of languages is the curse of Babel yet each language has its treasures. French is the only non-English language in which I have any competence. So I appreciate ...
- Iraq and Palestine: three years of prayer? (13 Jan 06)
Three years ago today on 13 January 2003 shortly before the invasion of Iraq on 20 March 2003 the Anglican Communion News Service posted [ACNS3252] the prayer below as an ...
- St. Aelred (12 Jan 06)
As there no one suitable associated with my birthday I've chosen St. Ælred as 'patron saint'. Today 12 January is his feast day the anniversary of his death in 1167. ...
- Cool relief (11 Jan 06)
The past few mid-summer days have been been very hot and today our office air con failed as well. This was the view from my grimy eighth floor office window ...
- Birthday steaming (09 Jan 06)
January 2nd was the 83rd birthday of my Dad John McKinlay. Last weekend I went to Albury to celebrate with him. We shared a leisurely restaurant dinner and a bottle ...
- Down memory railway (03 Jan 06)
Another of the National Library's current exhibitions is a display from John Leonard Buckland's collection of about 20 000 Australian railway photographs 1910 to 1988. About about 300 of them ...
- 60! (01 Jan 06)
James is 60 today! Here he plays with the birthday toy as we do coffee together on a bad hair morning. I love you baby. ...
- Fires (01 Jan 06)
Temperatures of 40°C (104°F) in Canberra today along with winds gusting to over 80 kph (about 50mph) make for serious concern about fire. The long drought has been relieved with ...
- Above every name (01 Jan 06)
1 January 2006 The feast of the Naming and Circumcision of Christ. The first Sunday after Christmas. New Year's Day . . . of all these it is the naming ...
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