A Babel of Cricketers

Like many Aussies, I’ve been watching the fracas between the Australian and Indian teams with horrified interest. Harbhajan Singh was accused and found guilty of racial vilification against Andrew Symonds. On appeal, that charge was dropped in favour of a charge of non-racial verbal abuse. This resulted in a three-match ban being lifted, and Harbhajan [...]

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A man after my own heart

Dave Walker describes his method ™ with paperwork. It’s remarkably like mine! (I keep my pile next to my copy of Getting Things Done.)  
 

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Christian (dis)unity

Sermon for the Third Sunday after Epiphany
 
1 Corinthians 1.10-18
 
Let me tell you about an experience during the week. I was looking in a song book for songs about unity, and so I looked up the index in the book. There in the index, under the heading Unity, what did it say? It said: see The [...]

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Christian–Moslem Hospitality

I spent part of Australia Day at a meeting between the Uniting Church Queensland Synod’s Ecumenical Relations Committee (ERC) and representatives of the Mosque at Kuraby. There were 20 of us; 13 Christians, 7 Moslems. I must say I met some wonderful, articulate Moslem men today. I am looking forward to further contact.

The first meeting [...]

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The Conversion of Paul

 
In the Church catholic, today is the Conversion of St Paul. (Oh, and also my mum’s 81st birthday—Hi, Mum!) We don’t do the Conversion of St Paul in the Uniting Church, we have enough to do what with this and that and the other thing.

Gerard Hughes, author of wonderful books like God of Surprises, has [...]

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Servant Leader

Sermon for the Second Sunday after Epiphany
 
Isaiah 42.1-7 & 49.1-9

‘Ich dien.’ This is the motto of the Prince of Wales, currently of course, Prince Charles—Ich dien, ‘I serve’. I worked some years ago now at the Prince Charles Hospital; its motto is taken from the Prince of Wales: it is, ‘We serve’.

I remember a conversation [...]

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Yet another Mac Keynote update

The Keynote finished with Randy Newman! Who else would do that??? Check it at YouTube.

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Update on Macworld Keynote address

Steve Jobs’ Macworld address is available in all its 90 minute splendour here. But if, like me, you think life’s too short, here at Mahalo Daily is a great 60 second condensed version!! 

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Knowing something a little

In a book published some years ago, Gordon Lathrop (liturgical theologian, and all-round good guy) introduced his article by mentioning an indigenous people in northern Canada, commonly called the Yellowknife, who call themselves the Tetsot’ine, ‘Those who know something a little’. He reflects: ‘Their name reflects the respectful and careful common life of people surrounded [...]

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MacBook Air

The MacBook Air was unveiled at the Mac Keynote held a few hours ago in San Francisco. At the risk of seeming being shallow, I just want to say: I WANT ONE.

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