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Over the weekend of Friday 28 to Sunday 30 May, the members of the 51st Synod of the Anglican Diocese of Tasmania are meeting at Launceston Church Grammar School. The theme of my Presidential Address to the Synod was Christ’s Pilgrim People. The full Address is available here.  The Address outline follows: CHRIST’S PILGRIM PEOPLE A [...]

Fruitful will now be held at St Michael’s Collegiate (Founders Hall) FRUITFUL is a residential leadership conference that will be held from the 18 – 20 June 2010. It’s that time of year again!  The youth and children’s ministry leaders from all around the state are gathering together at Fruitful Conference 2010.  This year will [...]

 I am happy to announce the exciting development underway for The Imagine Project website. In my vision for the Missionary Diocese of Tasmania, ahealthychurch…transforminglife, I wrote that my heart’s desire is for us all to take intiatives in mission that God may transform the life of our Christian communities and all Tasmanians. We’re a missionary diocese. That [...]

The Prayer Pilgrimage commenced last week at St Georges’ Batttery Point. See Prayer pilgrimage is underway- PTL! This car, and this Bishop will be visiting you soon……    The schedule for June is here and July is here

PENTECOST SUNDAY – What a significant day to begin my Prayer Pilgrimage: people@prayer SERMON OUTLINE – THE WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT BEARS WITNESS TO CHRIST BRINGS NEW LIFE TO PEOPLE TRANSFORMS BABY CHRISTIANS INTO THE IMAGE OF CHRIST  CALLS CHRISTIANS TO MINISTRY Prayer –  ROMANS 8 –  When we cry, “Abba! Father!” 16it is [...]

The Senator delivers bad news and a poor understanding of the role and responsibility of the confessional in Anglican Church practice. Senator Xenophon said current laws required priests to report sexual abuse cases to police only if they come to light outside the confession booth. He said the church should declare its protocols “so the public [...]

Based at the University of Tasmania, Samuel Green through the Australian Fellowship of Evangelical students (AFES) has a national ministry engaging in conversation and debate with Muslim people. In his recent newsletter Samuel mentions his blog devoted to reading the Qur’an. It is quite fascinating to read the Qur’an through Samuel’s Christian eyes. Highly commended. Thank you, Samuel. In his AFES [...]

A research paper, ‘Is retirement history?’ argues that an ageing Australia demands a comprehensive strategy based on ’active’ social participation rather than on a materialistic ’productive’ participation. The article responds to the federal government’s recent (February) announcement of a Productive Ageing Package of policies targeting the employability older workers adds to its own and Howard/Costello government initiatives aimed at [...]

I could not have said it any better than the Irish condemnations of today’s ordination in Los Angeles of a partnered lesbian as a bishop. This is not just another cut in Anglicanism’s ‘death by a thousand cuts’ but the gathering pace of the self mutilation of TEC (The Episcopal Church – the Anglican Church [...]

I have just released the Prayer Pilgrimage Pentecost 2010 brochure for Pentecost Sunday 23 May, which also commences the Prayer Pilgrimage 2010 ’people@prayer’. Read the Prayer Pilgrimage Pentecost 2010 brochure Pentecost 2010 ‘people at prayer’ brochure here. The accompanying letter to my Brothers and Sisters in Christ says, Pentecost, people and prayer: what a powerful combination! Pentecost Sunday 2010 [...]