Category Archives: Reflection

Covid19 Diary 11

Posted on August 9, 2020 by

One thing that has become incredibly obvious this week has been just how broken the mainstream media is in Australia Continue reading →

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Covid19 Diary 8

Posted on June 10, 2020 by

Samuel Pepys: June 10, 1665 In the evening home to supper, and there to my great trouble hear that the plague is come into the City (though it hath these three or four weeks since its beginning been wholly out … Continue reading →

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Covid19 Diary 7

Posted on May 17, 2020 by

Samuel Pepys: May 14, 1995 Lords Day. Up, and with my wife to church, it being Whitsunday. My wife very fine in a new yellow birds-eye Hood, as the fashion is now. We had a most sorry sermon. May 17, 2020 … Continue reading →

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Sermon: One example of evangelism

Posted on May 16, 2020 by

Reflection for Western Heights Uniting Church The Sixth Sunday of Easter, 17th of May 2020 Acts 17:22-31 I seem to have accidentally started a series of ‘reflections on the sermons preached in the Book of Acts’. Two weeks ago we … Continue reading →

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Covid19 Diary 5

Posted on April 28, 2020 by

I thought I was sympathetic enough to people in prison and immigration detention, and to those like the Palestinians behind the ‘Separation Wall’ who can’t travel freely. I wasn’t. Continue reading →

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Reflection for ANZAC Day

Posted on April 25, 2020 by

Let us use ANZAC Day to commit ourselves to be agents of reconciliation. Continue reading →

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Reflection: Feasting with Jesus

Posted on April 18, 2020 by

 Jesus reveals himself to these disciples, and they journey from despair to recognition, through what Luke’s readers and we ourselves can recognise is a standard church service. Continue reading →

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Covid19 Diary 4

Posted on April 14, 2020 by

Samuel Pepys: April 14, 1661 Easter. Lords day. In the morning towards my father’s. And by the way heard Mr. Jacomb at Ludgate, upon these words, “Christ loved you and therefore let us love one another.” And made a lazy … Continue reading →

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Covid19 Diary 3

Posted on April 1, 2020 by

Samuel Pepys: April 1, 1665 … to see how my Lord Treasurer did bless himself, crying he could do no more than he could, nor give more money than he had, if the occasion and the expense were never so … Continue reading →

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Covid19 Diary 2

Posted on March 23, 2020 by

Of course, in a crisis, people now think they can only rely on themselves. Of course people don’t believe they can trust the government. The government has deliberately created the conditions in which hoarding happens; it’s a bit disingenuous for them to condemn it. Continue reading →

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