thinking honestly about life and faith
Books: I love them! And many people like me prefer to hold a book in our hands—the digital version is convenient at times, but for all sorts of reasons it is just lovely to see and hold a book. Book … Read More »
With the news today that the Australian Government has decided to double the fees for courses in the Humanities, specifically targeting philosophy, and urging future students to choose subjects more attuned ‘the job market’, I am simply appalled. All of … Read More »
A culture of death: this is surely the only inference we can draw when a sitting President of the United States issues tweets that incite and affirm shooting and shares a video that declared ‘the only good Democrat is a … Read More »
It has taken me some time to get to writing this. I just can’t get my head around it: people whose calling and mission is to care for others, especially the most needy, children, those struggling with deprivation, mental illness … Read More »
I’ve just received a copy of the more recent version of Dag Hammarskjöld’s personal journal, Markings. Though I have read and returned to it many times, it is so good to hold it in one’s hands at this time. After … Read More »
We hear so much about ‘when we return to normal’ or ‘the new normal’. Actually we have returned to what is and has been normal for most humans. In so many ways the way of living we have lost through … Read More »
Today it is three years since I concluded my time as Principal of Whitley College and I take this opportunity to reflect on some of what it has meant. Three years on, I am still coming to terms with the … Read More »
I’m off to Warsaw, Poland for a week of dialogue conversations between the Catholic Church and the Baptist World Alliance, on the theme of ‘The dynamic of the Gospel: towards a common witness’. It is my privilege to co-chair this … Read More »
Visiting St Stephen’s Cathedral in Brisbane today, I emerged to stand on the steps where a woman of around my own age observed that the police had just entered. She sounded worried but I said to her: Perhaps they just … Read More »
Here is the text of a sermon I preached today at Collins Street Baptist Church, Melbourne. The Gospel text is Luke 18. 9 – 15: He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous … Read More »