Acorn Press Media Release: Acorn Press is delighted to inform you that two of its books won awards at the 2011 SPCK Australian Christian Book of the Year Awards in Melbourne. Professor Ian Harper’s book, Economics For Life, won first … Continue reading
Below is a letter I sent recently to Federal politicians from Tasmania, the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition in Canberra regarding the Anglican Church of Tasmania’s view on gambling and gambling reform: Dear … Gambling I write on … Continue reading
The Diocesan Ministry Council met today at St Mark’s Pontville. The hall overlooks the detention centre which is under construction on the nearby Rifle Range. There is something quite macabre and frightening about this juxtaposition of rifle range and detention … Continue reading
Three churches have been car bombed in the past two weeks in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk: St Ephrem’s Syrian Orthodox Church, Holy Family Syrian Catholic Church and the nearby Evangelical church. A sad but inevitable result for Christian … Continue reading
PARLIAMENT HOUSE GREAT HALL Tuesday 16th August 2011, 10am to 12pm It has recently been announced that on 17th August MP’s will be asked to report to Parliament the views of their electorate on same-sex “marriage”. It is now more … Continue reading
In the August Tasmanian Anglican I wrote regarding the issue of Managing sustainability: My culinary preferences no longer sustain my health. Getting older has its downside: ‘No’, to hot curries, bungee jumping and fresh bread thick with butter and draped with … Continue reading
In light of the recent debate surrounding the usage of social media at Synod, Tweeting Synod: Healthy for whom? I thought this excerpt of interest: “How tweet it is” by Paul Smith, The Weekend Australian Financial Review July 16-17, 2011 … Continue reading
While looting rampages engulf England drought ravages Somalia and the Horn of Africa, see 29,000 Somali children under 5 dead in famine. The Guardian Editorial seeks reasons for the crisis, here. Tim Costello of World Vision reports on the situation, … Continue reading
Margaret Somerville, “SAME-SEX marriage creates a clash between upholding the human rights of children with respect to their coming into being and the family structure in which they will be reared, and the claims of homosexual adults who wish to … Continue reading
Given the continuing global credit crisis I was reminded of this visualised presentation by Jonathan Jarvis. When I last looked it had received over 1 million hits for Part 1 and over 1/2 million for Part 2 – an interesting … Continue reading