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General Synod is over for another three years, but if you would like to read about some of the happenings in Melbourne over the last 6 days, I recommend the following articles:  From Melbourne Anglican:  In his presidential address, the Primate of the Anglican Church of Australia and Archbishop of Brisbane, Dr Philip Aspinall said, [...]

EUREKA STREET.com.au recently published an edited version of Resisting the duty to die, by John Kleinsman, Director of The Nathaniel Centre, the New Zealand Catholic Bioethics Centre.  The debate about euthanasia, or more accurately ‘physician assisted suicide’ — let’s not dress it up by using soft language like ‘death with dignity’ — has reared its [...]

Bridging the gap between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians is a key challenge for our nation.  The President of AASN, Revd Peter Laurence writes in the Foreword to an important report on this issue, This report titled Building Relationships was commissioned by the Australian Anglican Schools Network to examine the numerous initiatives being undertaken in our [...]

The General Synod of the Anglican Church of Australia is similar to national parliament of Australia except for its quite limited authorities and resources. It is a very loose federation of the 23 dioceses, meets every 3 years and started yesterday in Melbourne. Tasmania has seven representatives and we are all here happy and smiling. Introduction to the General Synod is [...]

Sad commentary on the fading of  ’concern for the underdog’ in Australian culture. Other info of interest from the Scanlon Foundation’s Mapping Social Cohesion Survey 2010. The June 2010 survey of 2000 respondents, undertaken by Andrew Markus, of Monash University, also found an entrenched negative attitude towards asylum seekers who arrived by boat. ”This is [...]

Very helpful sermon (from Psalm 23:4) by the Archbishop of Sydney, Dr Peter Jensen at the funeral of Detective Constable Bill Crews. The public and private grief over the death of Detective Constable Bill Crews has been extraordinary and yet understandable. The circumstances, as we now know, are doubly tragic, and we all anguish over that. [...]

The tragic flow on effect of the mindless aggression of Pastor threatening to burn the Koran. The Bishop of Amritsar has called on the President of India Pratibha Devisingh Patil to protect Christians in northern India after a mob burned down the oldest school in Kashmir and also attacked other Christian institutions. The Church of [...]

 Micah Challenge Australia is a global campaign of Christians who speak out against poverty and injustice. Their goal is see global poverty halved by 2015, for “God wants us to act in response to injustice.” They are asking for Churches and Christians in Australia to set aside Sunday 10 October 2010 (10.10.10) to PRAY, PROMISE and [...]

 Parading raw emotion is not the way to discuss end of life issues. Sadly, pro-euthanasia advocates plan to do us such a dis-service. See news reports from 7 September, here  and  here.  Yesterday the pro-euthanasia ads were banned because they promote suicide. But then, euthanasia is a euthemism for assisted suicide / medical killing. The intent is [...]

Now it’s the turn of an Aussie atheist lawyer to burn other people’s sacred books. May God have mercy on our impoverished world. A number of conclusions: A university education is insufficient proof of being educated.  Some people are simply stupid and insensitive.  Can we all be tempted to imbecility by 15 minutes of fame? Lawyers [...]