Please join us through prayer, as today we commence three days of Synod in Launceston. In my prayers this morning from A Prayer Book for Australia, p.213, Almighty and everliving God, give wisdom and understanding, to the members of the Synod of the Diocese of … Continue reading
Our Tasmanian Synods are largely harmonious affairs where we can share views, agree, disagree and modify with due respect for difference. I came across an article The Loss of Civility (& its Consequences) in CASE by Trevor Cairney. While the article … Continue reading
Dr. Andrew Pesce, President of the AMA and Paul Russell debated Dr. Nitschke and NSW Greens MLC, Cate Faerhmann on euthanasia & assisted suicide at Sydney Uni. From Paul Russell, It was an excellent event attended by about 150 people. A … Continue reading
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