Intriguing article by Maggie Maguire at the Tasmanian Times. I don’t agree with absolutely every aspect of the content or rhetoric but it’s worth a read. Her conclusion: Sigmund Freud said: The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization. Being cognizant of the needs of [...]
Archive for March, 2011
Long Walk of Obedience
Saturday, March 26th, 2011The following was recently posted on our church website. I guess this makes us officially “on the market” as they say. It’s an interesting season – one of exploration and discernment in a way that we haven’t experienced before. More than happy to receive advice or suggestions, and grateful for prayer for us, Connections and [...]
Explaining Euthanasia… or not
Saturday, March 26th, 2011A week ago today our local rag, The Advocate, did a spread on local state politician Adam Brooks. It’s a decent feel-good bio piece and certainly echoes the likeability of the man I have personally encountered once or twice. Part way through one part of the spread there is commentary on Brooksy’s apparent conservatism: He [...]
A significant reply to Dr. Owuor
Thursday, March 24th, 2011The reference to this is found in a previous post of mine about an apparent prophecy by one Dr. Owuor concerning an imminent tsunami striking Tasmania. It has been dismissed by many and dealt with theologically by some (I put myself in that category). Amongst those who are part of the intercessor/prophetic community in Tasmania [...]
Maxim?
Monday, March 21st, 2011“A politician who is not a philosopher is just a bureaucrat with votes.” The sort of crazy thing that goes through my head on long highway drives.
Theme Fix
Sunday, March 20th, 2011Different font rendering, particularly in IE9 and Windows 7, apparently was causing the layout to break. This has now been fixed. Please let me know if you have problems.
Q&A: when will the tsunami occur in tasmania?
Friday, March 18th, 2011Anonymous asks: when will the tsunami occur in tasmania? The world is meant to end in 2012, right? Seriously, I don’t know if, or when, a tsunami will occur. It is not a factor for life or ministry. See: this post.
The internet has been effectively filtered…
Thursday, March 17th, 2011…by “filtering” the bastards from society, as reported here: Australians caught in global paedophile ring Well done AFP and colleagues, good police work. We should invest more in you rather than waste time and money with the security-theatre of ISP filtering.
Review: The Lord’s Supper in Human Hands – Epilogue
Wednesday, March 16th, 2011An epilogue to The Lord’s Supper in Human Hands, a treatise on lay and diaconal administration of Holy Communion which I reviewed some time ago, has been made available as a free pdf. I was off-deck when the Appellate Tribunal brought its 2010 response to the Synod of Sydney’s resolution accepting legal argument for non-presbyteral [...]
Emerging or Diverging Church?
Tuesday, March 15th, 2011Or perhaps: Fresh Expressions or Left Expressions? I’m going to gently call out two people here. I don’t know them personally, but I’m picking up on some of their published comments that I have stumbled upon. #1 The first is Andrew Perriman who considers the momentum of two movements in evangelicalism – the so-called New [...]
