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This year I will be doing a Prayer Pilgrimage around the Diocese. The theme is “People @ Prayer”. The launch will be at Synod, end May. The actual Pilgrimage around Tasmania will be for the months of June and July. The calendar of visits is well advanced and as we were working through the places [...]

The following is an extract from my article, The Parliament of World Religions: Exploring the possibility of friendship, in the Tasmanian Anglican – February 2010. 
The Parliament of the World’s Religions 2009 was held in Melbourne in early December and attended by 5000 people from most of the world’ s religions. I met some marvellous people from [...]

25 February I attended the Annual Meeting for the 2009 year of World Vison Australia. Although it is over used, it has been a truly ‘challenging year’. The full Annual Report and also by sections for convenience can be downloaded from here. The website gives an excellent insight into the diverse ways in which World Vision brings practical love [...]

It is essential that the law upholds the protection of life of every individual…..unless the right to life is respected, protected and promoted within our society…. we risk falling into social disintegration as the lives of some are deemed to be less worthy of protection than the lives of others.
 Brendan McCarthy writes in, Assisted Suicide: [...]

Just in case you didn’t know, we have a March 20 election in Tasmania and it has a Facebook edge to it. Read on,
After promising the requisite clean campaign, Labor posted a web link: liberalsrealchange.com. It looked like a Liberal Party site, but hit the “go” button and up popped: “Will Hodgman’s $2 billion, four-lane [...]

Last night I watched Something in the Water Part 2 on ABC’s Australian Story and learnt of the efforts of a local GP in Tasmania’s North East seeking to explain unusual health problems in animals and humans. Interestingly the research found a most unexpected result:
NATURAL substances contained in the leaves of plantation trees growing upstream of St [...]

There has been much comment about Tiger Woods’ apology for his adultery: is the apology sincere or hype or hoping to regain sponsors? Whatever your conclusion of his motive, and surely we must be generous in attributing the highest motive – genuine reconciliation, the words of the apology are profound. Note his recognition that temptation [...]

As we enter Lent some bishops have taken it upon themselves to call for an environmentally friendly Lent:  Give up your iPods for Lent – bishops.  I beg to disagree. What’s my problem? In a word, reductionism!  - reducing Lent from its focus on reconciliation with God to acts of service.
Lent is about getting our relationship with God in order. This includes reflection [...]

(Roman) Catholic priests in Australia are overworked and in increasingly short supply, and this has prompted some dioceses to recruit clergy from overseas. But how ethical is it to take priests from countries such as India, where they may be needed? Is it time for the Church to look at more radical solutions?
 Earlier this year, [...]

This weekend many people world-wide will be celebrating Valentine’s Day (14 February).
Like most special ‘days’ commercialism has taken over and sometimes the real meaning of the day has been forgotten.  Read the history of Valentine’s Day here
So, amidst all the chocolates, cards, roses and gifts we may give to family or friends that we [...]