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Category Archives: Reflection
Covid19 Diary 5
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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Tagged Blood Bank, covid19, COVID19 Diary, dobbing, lockdown, unemployment
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Reflection for ANZAC Day
Let us use ANZAC Day to commit ourselves to be agents of reconciliation. Continue reading
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Tagged ANZAC Day, crusades, Holy War, Peace, reconciliation, Religion, World War One
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Reflection: Feasting with Jesus
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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Tagged communion, eucharist, Luke 24:13-35, the Lord's Supper
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Covid19 Diary 4
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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Tagged covid19, COVID19 Diary, discernment, Easter, Easter Sunday, jobs
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Covid19 Diary 3
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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Tagged covid19, COVID19 Diary, online communities, virtual worship, worship service
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Covid19 Diary 2
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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Tagged covid19, COVID19 Diary, hoarding, Newstart, povery, Rebecca Solnit
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For the newsletter
The supposedly-Chinese (but probably really English) curse is: “May you live in interesting times”. Times have certainly become interesting! We do not know how COVID19 will affect us; we have already had to make changes to the way we live; … Continue reading
Covid19 Diary 1
There are so many other parts of my ministry, and of the life of the church, that would actually be dangerous at the moment. Continue reading
No need for a Religious ‘Freedom’ Act
The Religious Discrimination Bill 2019 is a solution looking for a problem. Continue reading
Posted in Political Activism, Reflection
Tagged Human rights, Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Cth), racism, Religion in Australia, religious discrimination, religious freedom, Report of the Expert Panel into Religious Freedom, Second Exposure Draft of the Religious Discrimination Bill (2019), Sex Discrimination Act 1984
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Funeral Reflection for Howard James ‘Jim’ Learmonth
‘Eulogy’ is Greek for ‘good words’ and I hope that these are good words for a good man. Continue reading
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