Last week I went to see one of the clerks in the front office. On his door was a sign saying ‘walkabout.’ That made me smile because I immediately thought of Pastor George and Charlotte. (Just in case you don’t know the term ‘walkabout’…
Pastor George wrote several weeks ago about editing the British Lutheran and publishing it with errors. Well as much as I’ve checked this bulletin, every Sunday I sit down, look it over again only to find something I forgot to change, something misspelled, or…
Every year we have a Harvest Festival in our schools and churches. Do you know why? This is the time of year when all the crops have been harvested. Harvest Festival is a cel-ebration of the food grown on the land. Thanksgiving ceremonies and…
After church last Sunday some of the ladies suggested that I put a recipe in this section. That sounded like a good idea to me. I had to find one that wasn’t in our Ascension Drop-box cookbook.. (If you would like the link just…
Pastor George has only been gone a few days and already I miss him. In fact I appreciate all he does for our church family even more right now. Before he left he sent many emails (with attachments), left two bags of materials, and…
I’m sure it is a form of masochism that I read The British Lutheran after it’s gone to the print-ers. It always happens that afterwards I find a mistake or two … or more. (Aarrgghh!) It’s not that I don’t read it beforehand ……
I ‘watched’ the first game of the Bledisloe Cup 2014 – rugby between Australia and New Zealand – yesterday. By ‘watched’ I mean I watched the computer screen and the live commentary, the scores, and the Twitter feed that scrolled down. I watched the…
The dislocation of Christians and other religious minorities from Iraq continues to unfold. The reli-gious landscape of the Middle East is, it seems, shifting sands. We expect constant movement if religions are evangelistic even as we might deplore some of the methods used to…
My neighbour is doing a school project for his final year about whether the British Government should change the law so that the constabulary are regularly armed with handguns. Part of the project involved getting people’s opinions and he asked me whether, as a…
Where I grew up in Sydney, the Lutheran Church was largely unknown. If it was known then it was the ‘migrant’ church or the ‘German’ church. The four pastors I had before I left home and moved into the city were American, Dutch, Dutch,…
