‘Campaigning to Christians’ is a Eureka Street article which considers the effective participation of Christian groups in federal elections. There are two questions for individual churches and agencies. The first is how to intervene in the forthcoming election, if at all. The … Continue reading
Today on my prayer pilgrimage I have been catching up on my reading and I note three reflections from a longer article by Tim Costello on Kevin Rudd’s Prime Ministership: Who is leading who? – leaders or opinion polling? The polls delivered … Continue reading
Associate Professor Stuart Piggin (Macquarie University) has been so kind as to allow me to post to our website the notes from his public lecture, William Wilberforce, the Clapham Cabinet, and ‘Liberating the Captives’ in Australia, given on 26 March … Continue reading
Today on my Prayer Pilgrimage I drove past Quamby Bluff (see photo above) and I recalled an episode in Bishop Montgomery’ s ministry conducted there. This, in turn, reminded me of two fine addresses given at launches of the outstanding biography of he and … Continue reading
I was recently interviewed by ABC News Tasmania, along with Archbishop Adrian Doyle, regarding Attorney General Lara Giddings’ recent announcement that she wanted to “work with Greens Leader Nick McKim on rewriting his private member’s bill ” and that “she … Continue reading
My Prayer Pilgrimage around Tasmania is now in its fifth week. The map below shows where I have been so far in June as well as my visits coming up this week. This week (week starting Sunday 27 June) I am … Continue reading
The Mercury had an excellent Editoral in today’s paper (24 June 2010), titled: Births, deaths and political marriages. My thanks to Philip Young of the The Mercury for emailing the editorial, as below: THE Labor State Government has lost none … Continue reading
‘Surprised and sad’. These summarise my reaction to the news of pro euthanasia legislation for Tasmania by the Attorney General. Surprised because the State has only 1 year ago done all this and 11 years prior to that, 1998, we also investigated … Continue reading
I enjoyed the very good game this morning against Serbia but the 2 – 1 win was not enough to get us through to the next round. Well done Socceroos. Enjoyed the Aussie crowd scenes too. Thanks SBS for fine coverage … Continue reading
A brave parish rector and venerable gentleman, Noel, showed great courage when he read this revolutionary article to the congregation in order to move them into the front rows. It happened. I saw it: at a Prayer Pilgrimage gathering. And the people thought it all … Continue reading