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The Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts, the Honorable Peter Garrett AM MP was in attendance at St David’s Cathedral (Tuesday 13th October) for an important heritage funding announcement.

$1.6 million has been granted for the enhancement and maintaining of St David’s Cathedral. This is further to the 1.5 million granted in 2008. Hon Peter [...]

I am currently staying at a Mantra Hotel and mantras adorn the notice boards and the hotel note paper. A selection:

I will try to stay focused on the speaker.
I will make a list of things to do.
I will make it to the end of this PowerPoint presentation.
I will ask the best question of the conference.
I [...]

Did you know that last Wednesday fortnight was the first ‘Blasphemy Day’? But then growing up in Australia I have heard blasphemy go unchecked since childhood. Just attend a sporting event in Australia!
I recently read an article by Ronald Lindsay, “Taking aim at God on ‘Blasphemy Day”.  I found it liberating (I want people to talk freely about [...]

 Getting older doesn’t mean we have to become obsolete. It can mean continuing to grow, maturing, still ministering but perhaps in new ways, venturing into new paths and enjoying ourselves in fresh ways to the end of our days, learning from the past in order to live effectively in the present.
 Inspiring words of wisdom from the [...]

Professor Ian Harper gave an outstanding address at this week’s Tasmanian Parliamentary Prayer Breakfast (now in its fourth year) about the Global Financial Crisis and our response to it. My notes, with apologies to the Professor  
The Global Financial Crisis has called forth moral responses – “greed”, “excess”, and “selfishness”.

 Society has shifted its moral and philosophical [...]

 
‘Facing the Future: Bishops imagine a different church’, edited by Stephen Hale and Andrew Curnow, is a fascinating collection of articles by 22 bishops of the Anglican Church of Australia shaped around three areas; ‘Facing our current reality; Faces of a new future; and Facing the future’. 
“Facing the Future reflects the theological diversity and geography of [...]

How do we live? – some thoughts on living with difference; Gospel and culture
What does Christ say about Australian jam, Amish buggies or Argentine maté? Is it about ‘better or worse’ cultures or, rather, the Jesus difference seen in sacrificing tastebuds for mateship, separating oneself for holiness and sharing a friendship drink? 
For more see article ‘Sacrificing tastebuds [...]

1969 was a quite a year!
What are the special events of 1969 that you recall? The accompanying photograph of ‘Time’ magazine’s cover ‘1969’ highlights some of these special events, and the magazine’s articles are a goldmine of information about the year 1969.

At a personal level, a very special event happened for me in 1969. [...]

‘Ian Harper – Profile’ in the Sydney Morning Herald by Lucinda Schmidt commences,
 Setbacks have only served to make this economist more determined.
In a perverse sort of way, economist Ian Harper’s career has been shaped largely by setbacks and disappointments, which in hindsight have proved fortuitous.  . . .
Personal philosophy What would Jesus do? My Christian beliefs supply [...]

Stimulating reflections on a stimulating mission conference from one of our Imagine Project missioners who is leading ‘Connections’ in Somerset. All three of the daily posts are of interest, as well as McLaren on Anglicanism and, as if that was not enough grist for the mill, a list of Will’s conference tweets which he justifies by them being an [...]