thinking honestly about life and faith
A decade ago I wrote that I think the search for identity and for belonging are central to so much of the what is termed ‘Australian culture’. It has become a tactic of some of our political leaders to label … Read More »
We’ve just had a long weekend end, said to be a great Australian institution, but I wonder how many of us ever in fact now go somewhere without any contact with our work. We are so available, by phone or … Read More »
It’s just too easy to use the word ‘community’ without much idea of what it really means. Bonhoeffer wrote about it with the title Life Together. Perhaps we also need to re-order the words, to say together-life. I read this … Read More »
Some time ago I saw this helpful post on Facebook from Sue Fitzmaurice, about ‘unsuccessful strategies’ in life: and it’s fundamentally so right. Of course, the fact is that many of these ‘strategies’ can be helpful and appropriate, at times, or to … Read More »
There’s a brilliant, ancient poem called ‘A Celtic Rune of Hospitality’. The basic idea is profoundly challenging. It suggests that when we offer hospitality, food and shelter to a stranger, it just might be that we are serving Christ himself. … Read More »
It’s a new year and with the new year I discovered that my blog site had collapsed. Six months of posts were lost. But it is time to begin again: ‘move on’, as they say. So I thought to share … Read More »
I was sitting in the Dentist’s waiting room today when I saw this delightful board, containing some wonderful ideas, worthy of serious consideration: Live like heaven is on earth; Love like you have never been hurt; Laugh like not one … Read More »
I read on someone else’s blog a quotation that is just so true: it really cuts to the reality of things. Here it is: “You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out … Read More »
I’ve been reading a few reflections on the role and the responsibility of preachers. I found this wonderful quotation, an old Puritan proverb; Thou art a preacher of the Word; mind thy business.
Today I read this delightful paragraph which expresses exactly how I want to live.