- Long life (27 Dec 04)
The Telegraph (UK) on 27 December 2004 reports research showing that regular churchgoers live longer than non-believers. A 12-year study tracking mortality rates of more than 550 adults over the ...
- Nicholas (19 Dec 04)
Get rid of Santa Claus. St. Nicholas is the real deal. The Saint Nicholas Centre and the St. Nicholas Society have just two of the the fascinating web sites about ...
- Santa's boot (19 Dec 04)
Cartoon by WB Dyson published in The Age 14 December 2004. ChristmasThe bells of waiting Advent ring The Tortoise stove is lit again And lamp-oil light across the night ...
- America and a different kind of election (02 Dec 04)
While studying Wolfhart Panennberg's magnificent Systematic theology recently I came across this extract from an "Excursus: secular belief in election and nationalism." [The doctrine of election being the belief that ...
- Wangaratta women (01 Dec 04)
Albury New South Wales newspaper The Border Mail reports that the Synod of the Anglican Diocese of Wangaratta one of the few Dioceses in Australia currently without women priests has ...
- Unjust disunity is neither unity nor justice (05 Oct 04)
In the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Australia legislation allowing appointment of women bishops narrowly failed to achieve the required two-thirds majority in a secret ballot yesterday. Just ...
- She is a shepherd (20 Sep 04)
The Synod of the local Anglican Diocese of Canberra and Goulburn voted overwhelmingly on 19 September to allow the consecration of women bishops. There was little opposition despite it breaking ...
- Electing for quiet and peace (19 Sep 04)
First of all then I urge that supplications prayers intercessions and thanksgivings be made for everyone for kings and all who are in high positions so that we may lead ...
- Taking back Australian faith (19 Aug 04)
Sojourners is a (American) Christian ministry whose mission is "to proclaim and practice the biblical call to integrate spiritual renewal and social justice." It is organising a "Take Back Our ...
- Reading violence (18 Jul 04)
Under the heading Who shall speak for the marginalised St. Mark's held a public seminar on Thursday evening about the story in Genesis chapter 34 - the rape of Dinah. ...
- Principles for revolutionary loneliness (08 Jul 04)
Back in April I promised myself to get Jean Vanier's book Becoming Human. At last the bookseller has come through with a copy. This is a book to be read ...
- Relationship and mission (02 Jul 04)
James and I are friends and supporters of a couple who work as counsellors for Wycliffe Bible Translators. Kirk Franklin Executive Director of Wycliffe International in Australia wrote recently in ...
- Filled with emptiness (30 May 04)
The feast of PentecostDear Lord when your Spirit descended upon your disciples they spoke the languages of those who came to hear their witness. Tonight I pray that in our ...
- Reconciliation (24 May 04)
A National Sorry Day is held each year on 26 May the anniversary of the presentation to Parliament in 1998 of a report of an inquiry into the removal of ...
- Liberal and Biblical (12 May 04)
BiblicalLiberal.com is described as a web site for "people who care about the church's future and want to see it thrive within a modern context. We have a vision of ...
- Becoming human (28 Apr 04)
To celebrate St. Mark's day my school St. Mark's National Theological Centre joined with L'Arche Australia and the Australian Catholic University to present a lecture by L'Arche's founder Jean Vanier. ...
- Progressive Christianity (21 Apr 04)
I'm reading a bit about 'Progressive Christianity'. Jonathan Wortmann says of 'Progressive Christianity' that it has "one core dogma."Progressive Christians proclaim that God loves everyone without exception. We struggle like ...
- The laughter of the universe (16 Apr 04)
. . . for Christian faith the resurrection of Christ was from the very beginning the open plenitude of God and the joy that is called faith was Easter rejoicing. ...
- No strangers to anger (08 Mar 04)
Like an alcoholic's willingness to be open to the possibility of not drinking today our willingness to be open to forgiving those who someday may seek our forgiveness is often ...
- Jesus and the outsider (01 Mar 04)
In the previous post I quoted Desmund Tutu that no one must be an outsider to the church. But he would also agree that Jesus is where the outsiders are.There ...
- None are outsiders (28 Feb 04)
Today some words by the inimicable Archbishop Desmond Tutu from a talk given to the Anglican Communion Office on Ash Wednesday. Jesus stated the most radical of ideas that we ...
- Falling erections (28 Feb 04)
This year I'm reading through Chris Glasser's The Word is out (written in 1994) which recaptures the Bible as resource for daily encouragement liberation justice and renewal. The entry for ...
- Intellectual or spiritual? (28 Feb 04)
From The prospect of humanism by Lawrence Hyde (1931):It takes a long time for the average over-intellectualized person to realize that in this particular sphere of reality he must be ...
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