Finally time to read the Sunday Age and the largely Victorian debate over the teaching of religious instruction in public/ state schools continues. Professor Barry McGaw, the chairman of the national curriculum authority, told The Sunday Age: ”I don’t see anything wrong with … Continue reading
We live in interesting times! CHRISTIANS in Sydney will have their core beliefs challenged by provocative advertisements due to appear on billboards and buses in the next month. The ads, paid for by an Islamic group called MyPeace, will carry … Continue reading
Friday Forum at the Cathedral – St David’s Cathedral Hobart 27 May 2011 Send them home? A Christian perspective on asylum seekers STRUCTURE WHO ARE WE ALL? WHO ARE WE HERE IN AUSTRALIA? WHO ARE THEY- THE ASYLUM SEEKERS? HOW … Continue reading
Confusing the role of chaplains and the teaching of religious education in schools seems to have been the go in Victoria for some weeks now. It appeared in the national media via last Saturday’s The Weekend Australian. My mate and … Continue reading
This week I wrote the following letter to a dear friend, Christopher Lo, upon receiving news of the death of his mother, Greta Lo. In asking Chris for permission to publish my letter to him I had in mind the encouragement … Continue reading
I am speaking at a 200 Year Celebration of Tasmania’s first chaplain, the Reverend Robert Knopwood, at Prince’s Square in Launceston at 2pm Saturday. I found Chris Thiele’s historical novel about early Tasmania and in which the Chaplain Knopwood makes an … Continue reading
Disturbing submission from the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils (AFIC) to a national parliamentary committee. THE nation’s peak Muslim group is using the Gillard government’s re-embracing of multiculturalism to push for the introduction of sharia in Australia, but it says … Continue reading
I heard a short extract on the ABC radio news this morning. This is yet another reminder to pray for our brothers and sisters in Christ who do not have the freedom to follow Jesus in the way that we … Continue reading
Archbishop Mouneer brings an update of recent tragic events in Egypt, Update on the situation in Imbaba – Archbishop Mouneer Anis. The damage we saw was indescribable. The area looked as if it was a battlefield, because of the many … Continue reading
I have been researching the nature and practice of ‘passionate spirituality’ and came across the Roman Catholic Church’s affirmation of Friday penance as a way of identifying with the passion of Christ on the cross. The English and Welsh Roman Catholic … Continue reading