I remember when blogs were starting on the internet. Back in the 1990s the Lutheran Church of Australia had one going for pastors. I dutifully signed up and joined in but after a short while I left the group. Maybe it was me and…
I arrived back in the UK to the news of the South Yorkshire flooding. Property destruction and deaths are devastating. I arrived back in the UK to pick up the news that the bushfires in Aus-tralia had got worse (and there had been considerable…
I didn’t expect the question. The conversation was the suddenness of Jesus’ reappearance – how the world will be turning and there will be eating and drinking, giving birth and dying, making love and making war, buy and selling and so on and then…
Back at work now, I’m back on the road quite a bit. There are lots of road works happening and I’ve noticed the progress made. As with any regular travelling, you come to know the ‘local conditions’ – when to leave home so as…
At your ordination you don’t really know what you’re getting into. It’s quite similar to marriage, I think. In both you have what you think are good and realistic ideas about how you got to the altar and what will happen afterwards – but…
Michael has been a popular archangel among both Jews and Christians. According to Revelation 12, he led the heavenly army against Lucifer before the creation of the world, and according to a very old belief, it is Michael who receives the souls of the…
As you might imagine, I am somewhat preoccupied at the moment with the ELCE as Synod –rather than as congregation (such as Ascension or Good Shepherd or Redeemer). We have the convention of Synod this week and there have been lots of talk this…
With the harvest table laden and I imagine our cupboards and pantries full of goodies, we are very much blessed. The Earth produces its harvest. I remember walking in an old abandoned mining town in western Queensland and being surprised how quickly and how…
I’ve accepted since I was quite young that justice is a paradox but that it is the bond of society. We may differ on what is just and justice itself is different across countries and courts but from a young age we have a…
“C’mon, God!” I was leaning over my desk and opening the window blinds. I wanted to open the side windows. I hadn’t done this for a while but the bee –and I’m talking a Hercules plane type bee, a low buzzing bee, flying around…
