- Quite a year (30 Dec 05)
Members of the American Religion Newswriters Association have ranked the items below as the top religious news stories of 2005. The one's I've marked in italics also seem to me ...
- O Lord, won't you buy me ... ? (30 Dec 05)
Nobody needs a car like this. But its fun to dream a little--not about the car but about being so free of financial cares as to be able to be ...
- Chulalongkorn Warhol (29 Dec 05)
King Chulalongkorn Rama V (Phra Chula Chomklao Chaoyuhua) was the fifth king of the Chakri dynasty of Thailand (b. 1853 d. 1910; reigned 1868-1910). A reformer and moderniser he was ...
- Not the whole truth (23 Dec 05)
The Scotsman (21 Dec) reports the first civil union ceremonies in Scotland including that of John Maguire and Laurence Scott-Mackay in Edinburgh. After the ceremony at the India Buildings register ...
- Red book misread (23 Dec 05)
From Faithful Agitator I learnt of a story in the the Dartmouth Standard-Times which alleged that a University of Massachusetts student was visited by agents of the U.S. Department of ...
- Throwing away the key (16 Dec 05)
Recent mob violence in Sydney's southern beach-side suburbs has received world-wide publicity. Trouble began on Sunday when gangs attacked people of Middle Eastern appearance in the beachside suburb of Cronulla. ...
- I hope so! (13 Dec 05)
New Yorker 20 December 2004. ...
- I'll walk to Synod, thanks (11 Dec 05)
As I mentioned some weeks ago I am honoured to have been elected one of the Diocese of Canberra and Goulburn's delegates to the General Synod of the Anglican Church ...
- 501(s) (04 Dec 05)
Being a jeans and T-shirt person whenever I can get away with it (which is not often enough) I can't let my 501st posting go by without a nod in ...
- A decorative answer (03 Dec 05)
And now from the Vatican an authoritative answer to a Really Important Question. Actually I rather like the answer especially when Fr. McNamara urges circumspection when decorating churches and says ...
- The two-thirds world in a first world nation (27 Nov 05)
In this small excerpt from a magnificent Thanksgiving sermon (preached at Grace Church Sheboygan Wisconsin) Fr Jerry Kramer OP of the (Anglican) Church of the Annunciation in New Orleans begins ...
- A sea of gold (17 Nov 05)
Charles de Gaulle famously once wondered aloud how one could govern a nation with so many kinds of cheeses (though no-one seems sure how many kinds of cheeses he mentioned.) ...
- It cannot escape blame (16 Nov 05)
Between 150 000 and 210 000 opponents of the Federal Government's new workplace laws marched in Melbourne on Tuesday in what may have been the largest ever demonstration in Australian ...
- He's got a little list . . . (14 Nov 05)
Need to catalogue your personal or home library? LibraryThing a new online service is excellent. It works by allowing users to catalogue their books in the LibraryThing database. To simplify ...
- Banishing the bland (14 Nov 05)
Following the urban violence in France quite a number of commentators have noted a crucial difference between French and British policies on culture and ethnicity. Thus for example an editorial ...
- Cashtrated intaxication (09 Nov 05)
The Washington Post's Mensa Invitational once again asked readers to take any word from the dictionary alter it by adding subtracting or changing one letter and supply a new definition. ...
- Less and less a democracy (08 Nov 05)
Dear patient readers forgive me if rant a little more about current Australian politics. For I fear greatly that Australia is rapidly ceasing to be a democracy. The Government pays ...
- Arrogant as always (08 Nov 05)
Glenn Milne of The Australian (7 Nov.) highlights the arrogance of the Government in its dealings with the Parliament over the new industrial relations laws. (He neglects to mention that ...
- 'The' to 'a'. (08 Nov 05)
Well some people were arrested overnight and charged with membership of banned terrorist organisations. But they've not been charged with any offence that was redefined by last week's emergency session ...
- Uncharitable charities (07 Nov 05)
Aware of human fraility I don't often find church politics actually shocking. But I am shocked or at least dismayed by this incident. The Sydney Morning Herald reports (5 Nov.) ...
- A Cross city (07 Nov 05)
"Don't cross the city. Go under it." So advertise the operators of Sydney's $680 million Cross-city tunnel opened a couple of months ago. Problem is deterred by the high toll ...
- Terror, error, and urgency (03 Nov 05)
The Government's new anti-terrorism laws are now in the House of Representatives. Meanwhile in two days this week the Government pushed through Parliament other more "urgent" changes. Apparently the Government ...
- Most noble order (29 Oct 05)
My few but faithful readers will have noticed my preoccupation and concern with the Australian Government's determination to curtail civil liberties through the introduction of anti-terror laws. Dull mutterings only ...
- Dancing delight (29 Oct 05)
ABC TV's weekly half-hour dancesport competition Strictly Dancing is always entertaining and one of the few things James and I watch whenever we can. I posted some pictures of Adam Francis ...
- Not for government alone (29 Oct 05)
In its editorial of 29 Oct The Tablet says that three proposals now before the British government to tighten its laws against terrorism "raise concerns that the Government wants to ...
- Not competent to detain (27 Oct 05)
Repeated bungling in the administration of inhumane immigration laws demonstates that the Australian Government cannot be trusted with detention powers such as those in the proposed anti-terrorism laws. The Commonwealth ...
- The deep black hole (25 Oct 05)
My Parish Priest Rob Lamerton writes in our weekly Parish newsletter (23 Oct.):Great concern has been expressed this week about the Government's new "Anti-Terror" legislation. While I am appalled by ...
- Punishment on hearsay (25 Oct 05)
In the Sydney Morning Herald (24 Oct.) David Marr argues that the Australian Government's proposed anti-terrorism use allow intelligence rather than legal evidence to be employed punitively."It remains the very ...
- Progress in the ADF - but what about the civies? (22 Oct 05)
According to The Age (21 Oct.) members of the Australian Defence Force (ADF) in same-sex relationships are about to be granted family benefits and death and injury compensation for their ...
- Diversity and Team Sydney (21 Oct 05)
Concerning the Sydney Diocese's recent decision in favour of changing the Anglican Church of Australia's Constitution to make possible the severing of its link with Canterbury the Primate Archbishop Aspinall ...
- Sexual equality in preventative detention! (19 Oct 05)
In its draft terrorism legislation the Australian Government recognises same sex couples for the purposes of detention orders while it declines to recognise us elsewhere for beneficial purposes. In a ...
- Opposition wanted (18 Oct 05)
The Australian government would be less audacious and outrageously ideological if it were facing a stronger opposition. The Australian Labour Party must accept blame for its failure in the last ...
- Viligant about civil liberties (18 Oct 05)
In the following extract ("Being vigilant about civil liberties" pp. 30-32) from their recent report Countering terrorism: power violence and democracy post 9/11 (Sept. 2005) a Working Group of the ...
- Ideology and workplace rights (18 Oct 05)
The Australian Government's intended changes to workplace relations laws again illustrates its ideological determination to reduce the rights of the Australian people. Thus Tim Colebatch comments in The Australian (a ...
- It should not be passed (18 Oct 05)
I agree with Senator Kerrie Nettle of the Greens that the draft ant-terrorsim legislation should not become law in a democratic society. She said (14 Oct)Draft anti-terrorism legislation made public ...
- Australian government terrorism (17 Oct 05)
With many Australians I am concerned and angry at the arbitrary secret detention compulsory questioning shoot-to-kill provisions and denial of civil rights and liberties that the Federal Government is considering ...
- No answer? (13 Oct 05)
"If there's no solution there's no problem." - James Kim ...
- Testing summer (10 Oct 05)
Cricket especially test cricket the only sport that regularly interests me as a spectator/TV watcher/radio listener though I did enjoy the football World Cup. Australia's football seasons (AFL and NFL) ...
- Squandered trust (05 Oct 05)
A survey of social attitudes by the Queensland University of Technology says that Australia's defence force is our most trusted institution; 82% of Australians had confidence in the defence forces ...
- Not blue, not red, but green (02 Oct 05)
I'm picking up on a test from *Christopher's site again. According to The Politics Test on OkCupid I am a Social Moderate (56% permissive) and an Economic Liberal (21% permissive). ...
- Intuition, not Quake (24 Sep 05)
Err . . . another internet test discovered thanks to *Christopher's "Friday Test" post. My results are rather as I expected and rather less brilliant than *Christopher's! I try hard ...
- Clean, complex and light (13 Aug 05)
The 3 Variable Funny Test by Jason Bateman at OkCupid says that my stye of humour is that of the " Prankster" (whatever that means) -- 19% dark 30% spontaneous ...
- happier with not too much information (13 Aug 05)
In thinking about the way some African church leaders were quoted recently as "disowning" the CofE Andrew Brown (Church Times 5 Aug) ponders the dangers of too much information -- ...
- Blacknailed (10 Aug 05)
Perhaps this picture of a certain much respected Australian sportsman bears out the words of Australian punk rocker turned jazz crooner Ignatius Jones "Clothes . . . are clothes. . ...
- Ballooning blogosphere (03 Aug 05)
In its latest State of the Blogosphere report Part 1 Technorati says that one new blog is created 'every second'. It now tracks more than 14.4m blogs up from 7.8m ...
- Always white (26 Jul 05)
Just what we need in our Parish a self-cleaning church! In Rome the 'Dives in Misericordia' church designed by U.S.-based architect Richard Meier is made of self-cleaning concrete that stays ...
- Archbishops three (20 Jul 05)
I love this joyful ACNS picture. It captures Archbishop Ntahohuri Archbishop Williams and retiring Primate Archbishop Ndayisenga in a procession at Archbishop Ntahohuri's enthronement as the new Anglican Archbishop of ...
- Googled Greenwich (20 Jul 05)
I've been playing with Google Earth. It's computer hungry but works fine on my Toshiba TE2000. In the Sydney Morning Herald of 16 July 2005 Stephen Gibbs and Matthew Thompson ...
- Breaking the ice (16 Jul 05)
Surely it must have occurred to Icebreaker that their model who is spectacularly not wearing their wonderful fine merino clothing could only be described as horny? ...
- Stoic? (16 Jul 05)
In Time 10 July 2005 Andrew Sullivan writes of the "quiet power" of British stoicism in the face of the recent bombings.Americans often react to crises with action and emotion. ...
- Stoning and power (14 Jul 05)
United Nations special rapporteur on arbitrary executions Philip Alston has called for an immediate review of the process that led to a man in Northern Nigeria being sentenced to death ...
- Christian leaders must 'have a go' (12 Jul 05)
Newly-elected Australian Anglican leader Phillip Aspinall says that federal Workplace Relations Minister Kevin Andrews is wrong to insist that religious leaders withdraw from the debate on the Government's controversial proposals ...
- Maybe there's something to this? Then again . . . (06 Jul 05)
Your #1 Match: INFJThe Protector You live your life with integrity originality vision and creativity. Independent and stubborn you rarely stray from your vision -- no matter what it is. ...
- Zapatero and Martin uphold the decent society (02 Jul 05)
On 30 June the Spanish Parliament voted to legalise same-sex marriages. Socialist Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero made a remarkable speech in which he said that the changes were ...
- Aaargh! (24 Jun 05)
Stress relief device. Click the face of the pig at this link ...
- The Cardinal Companion (?) and Liquid minisry (15 Jun 05)
In the latest round of Australian honours His Eminence Cardinal George Pell has been made a Companion in the Order of Australia (AC) "for service to the Catholic Church in ...
- From Mary to Bollywood in one week (11 Jun 05)
Whew! What a week. Saturday: attend seminar on ARCIC Mary document 10am-4pm Sunday: preach and assist minister at 10am Eucharist Monday: Chair (bi-monthly) St. Mark's Library Advisory Committee 5.30-7.15pm Tuesday: ...
- Telegraphing antidiscrimination education (06 Jun 05)
Harley in this post draws attention to a Sydney Daily Telegraph front page report about an anti-discrimination program in New South Wales public schools and second story about how it ...
- Tagged! (06 Jun 05)
Christopher has ruthlessly tagged me with this so-called 'meme'. So here goes. What is the total number of books you own? No idea but they fill about 45 metres of ...
- Declaring from Jacksonville (31 May 05)
Out of the blue I received an email today from The Christian Alliance for Progress. It wasn't especially humble:Finally there's a progressive Christian organization dedicated to reclaiming Christianity from the ...
- Definitely literary and not a BFZ (18 May 05)
In a recent post about the writing of sonnets I ignorantly described myself as "not a literary person." Only two days later I find the following extract in Kel Richards' ...
- Empanelling Dr Carnley (14 May 05)
The Most Revd Dr Peter Carnley AO will chair the 'Panel of Reference' created by the Archbishop of Canterbury in response to the request of the Primates Meeting in February. ...
- Peace for Europe Day (06 May 05)
I am in favour of the Australian War Memorial here in Canberra not so much because it is a memorial but because it is an important museum archive gallery and ...
- When is small beautiful? (15 Apr 05)
In a few hours will be the funeral of His Serene Highness the late Ranier III Sovereign Prince of Monaco. I mention this because I remember a school English class ...
- HRH forgiven (10 Apr 05)
These prayers were included in the service of blessing of the marriage of the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall held at Windsor Castle yesterday.Almighty God Father of ...
- Archangel (03 Apr 05)
After thinking and writing about healing recently perhaps its encouraging that according to this at Quizilla the archangel I most resemble is Raphael. "You're most like the Archangel of Healing. You ...
- Personality or skill? (31 Mar 05)
Thanks to Rebel Prince for mentioning a piece by Jonathan Ruach on Caring for your introvert. It's interesting and helpful. I've never quite been able to figure out the Introvert/Extrovert ...
- Busy (11 Mar 05)
I have failed miserably in my intention to limit my activities this year. The St. Mark's National Theological Centre has co-opted me as a member of its governing Council and ...
- The original Windsor (19 Feb 05)
So the marriage of the Prince and Mrs Parker Bowles is to be conducted by the local registrar at the Guildhall Windsor. (If the civil wedding took place within Windsor ...
- Migratory farce (15 Feb 05)
The administration of Australia's immigration laws is a farce. The ABC reports that French tourist Mr Mohamadou Sacko was abducted from Sydney airport and wrongfully held in detention by Immigration ...
- Duchess of Cornwall (10 Feb 05)
The Queen has announced that she and the Duke of Edinburgh are "very happy" that the Prince of Wales and Mrs Parker-Bowles are to marry . "We have given them ...
- Taste of enlightenment (07 Feb 05)
I've declared this site to be tobacco free but not alchohol free. Yet I've long questioned my Scottishness in heritage as I've never liked whisky even Scotch. Maybe this was ...
- Oz day (26 Jan 05)
Today is Australia Day. As The Age said this morning it is "a day but not a date to celebrate." The importance of having a national day is obvious but ...
- Busy building (21 Jan 05)
No posts for a few days as I've been concentrating on the rebuild of the site -- including a recheck of all the pages for compliance with XHTML 1.0 Transitional.. ...
- Letters of credit? (09 Jan 05)
Letters in the newspapers yesterday (8 Jan.) made the the point I was trying to make about the unevenness of our overseas aid. ...
- Peace when? (07 Jan 05)
For a fleeting moment I though I had found a more valuable celebration for 1 January than New Year's Day. The Vatican at least has marked 1 January as World ...
- Uneven compassion (07 Jan 05)
It's good that the Australian Government has been able to commit $500 million in grants and $500 million in long-term interest-free loan to help Indonesia respond to the destruction in ...
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