Palm Sunday
I laughed out loud in the car. This wasn’t a smile or a grin but a laugh that went for a few miles. I’m still smiling as I type. Not sure why it tickled me so much – after all, it was just a…
Thought for the Week
The Fourth Sunday in Lent
I remember visiting the Mezquita in Cordoba, Spain, having heard what a magnificent building it was. (And it is … well, worth a visit.) I had heard about the altar and was keen to see it only to discover that it was hidden behind…
The Third Sunday in Lent
There are over 7,000 languages in the world (according to SIL International) and over 1,000,000 words in the English language (according to the Global Language Monitor). Translating English into another lan-guage or another language into English is still quite an art even with…
The Second Sunday in Lent
Part of the problem I think for many people is that they don’t want to think of themselves as sinners. I specifically before have no criminal record; faithful in marriage; kind; honest; etc t be any of those things s status before God and standing under the cross…
The First Sunday in Lent
The headlines got me again. Online Australian newspaper – first screen front page so to speak – a link to be clicked ‘Actor Chris O’Dowd says religions are as ‘offensive’ as racism’. I had two immediate reactions as I clicked on the link to…
The Transfiguration of Our Lord
The headline did its job. It got my attention. It was an article on the competing issues that surround val-ues and laws in a democracy. Religions have points of views and practices that go with them. For good order, all societies do. So what…
The Seventh Sunday after The Epiphany
As I mentioned on Ascension’s Facebook, I thought there was an incongruity in our lunchtime book club discussion about ‘The Hiding Place’ by Corrie Ten Boom and our surroundings: sitting outside in the sun, enjoy a nice light lunch, good company, pleasant backdrop of…
The Sixth Sunday after The Epiphany
The Christian’s place in the world has always seemed to me to oscillate between isolation or in-volvement; retreating from the world as much as possible or controlling the world as much as pos-sible. We grow up with mantras such as ‘living in the…
The Fifth Sunday after The Epiphany
The joy of archaeology or fossicking is in the finding – especially a new find. It spurs people on to more. I can only imagine the excitement, joy, and sheer wonder as the Dead Sea Scrolls came to light – literally and also…
The Presentation of Our Lord
I do sometimes wonder what Jesus thinks of his Church. I know he is Lord of it. I know in reality there is one church – spread out across the varying denominations which have a wide variety of perspectives on aspects of theology and…