thinking honestly about life and faith
In recent Christmas letters many people have urged me to keep on writing for this blog. Why have I not written, for some months, I ask myself. I could offer many reasons. For the last year I have been increasingly … Read More »
Yesterday in several Australian states it was a public holiday. In Victoria it is called ‘Labour Day’. It commemorates the foundations of the Labour movement here, where workers on the new buildings for the University of Melbourne went on strike, … Read More »
The late and truly wonderful Archbishop Desmond Tutu once remarked: I don’t preach a social gospel; I preach the Gospel, period. The gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ is concerned for the whole person. When people were hungry, Jesus didn’t … Read More »
I’m working my way through Barack Obama’s presidential memoir A Promised Land. Actually it is just the first volume and 712 pages plus index it’s a big read. He set out to write the whole thing in one 500 page … Read More »
We are enduring a rude awakening to realities our everyday life in Australia allows us to ignore. We are discovering things that much of the ‘majority world’ knew all along and lives with all the time. We are realising that … Read More »
In Melbourne we are all so pleased to be out of ‘iso’—the long period of lock-down and social isolation. We can go out, meet people, eat out or entertain at home. Some even go to the movies, or church! It’s … Read More »
God For Us: the Trinity and Christian Life, by Catherine Mowry LaCugna (HarperSanFranciso 1991) is without a doubt one of the most valuable books I have read in the years of my teaching career. Catherine LaCugna (1952 – 1997—she died … Read More »