Off to Sydney today…

…for a meeting of conveners of Theology and Discipleship working groups, the induction of Rev Dr Chris Walker as National Consultant of T&D, and to present a couple of things to the Assembly Standing Committee. I’ll be back on Sunday.

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CC Blogs

Back when dinosaurs ruled the earth and I was studying medicine, I loved going into the old sandstone library in the university of Queensland to read the periodicals. One I always went for was a journal from the USA, the Christian Century. It opened a great new world of a faith unafraid to engage with [...]

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I’ll write about synod soon

I’m just back from the meeting of the 27th Synod of the Uniting Church here in Queensland. There’s something to say, but I’m unpacking it first!
One of the best parts of the synod is that it’s by the beach at Alexandra Headland. The meeting hall at the Alexandra Park Conference Centre was redesigned with the [...]

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John Lennon: “I’m one of Christ’s biggest fans”

From Telegraph.co.uk, on a 1969 interview with John Lennon:
John Lennon famously claimed the Beatles were more popular than Jesus, even predicting that Christianity would “vanish and shrink”.
But 28 years after his death, in an interview being broadcast for the first time, he claims that on the contrary, he hoped to encourage people to focus on [...]

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I know he died, but I don’t want change

Wow!! This article about a dead man winning an election is from the BBC.
 
Romanian villagers have voted to re-elect a dead man as their mayor, to prevent his living rival winning.
Neculai Ivascu – who led Voinesti for almost two decades – died from a liver disease on Sunday, too late to cancel the contest.
The village’s [...]

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Spain wins Euro 2008

Strange. Now I have a daughter living in Barcelona, I feel my team won when underdogs Spain came out 1-0 against Germany.
This is the Guardian’s take:
33 min: SUPERB GOAL!!! Germany 0-1 Spain. Torres has deserved this, and what a finish. He goes tearing down the inside-right channel after a perfectly-weighted ball is rolled towards the German area by [...]

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Would you vote for Jesus as PM?

The USA is gearing up for an election that seems at this stage to be pretty close. The cartoonist Mark Fiore asks, What if there were another candidate besides John McCain and Barack Obama? (I saw it first at Creedal Christian.)
Well, would you vote for Jesus?

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In the Name

Sermon for Trinity Sunday
Matthew 28.16-20
It’s 3 o’clock in the morning. You hear a loud knock-knock-knock on your door. A loud voice cries: “Open up in the name of the law!”
What do you do? Would you open up?
Or, it’s 3 o’clock in the morning. You hear a loud knock-knock-knock on your door. A loud voice cries: [...]

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The Spirit Season

Sermon for Pentecost
John 7.37-39; Acts 2.1-21
There are a few more people here this week! Last week, some of our number were at the annual tent camp at Bigriggen, just down the road from Rathdowney. (And turn right, and then a left, and continue down the road, and if you’re lucky, it’s just… Well, you get [...]

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The Ascension of Jesus

Today is the Ascension of Jesus, one of those days we don’t know what to do with. Few Uniting Churches meet on Ascension Day for worship (I know of none!) This Sunday marks the beginning of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity in the southern hemisphere, which seems too worthy a cause to ignore, [...]

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