Leadership
Greed – the Market’s Forgotten Vice
Greed is the market’s forgotten vice Date April 21, 2014 Ross Gittins The Sydney Morning Herald’s Economics Editor Leonardo DiCaprio as Jordan Belfort in The Wolf of Wall Street… from the American dream to greed untold. Photo: Supplied Where do Easter and business intersect? Well, what about at greed. But what is unique to our age […]
Brian Harradine: a ‘conviction politician’
Independent used his votes to champion Tasmania’s cause Date April 18, 2014 Jeremy Stuparich Brian Harradine makes his final speech in the Senate. Photo: Andrew Taylor Brian Harradine Senator 9-1-1935 — 14-4-2014 Brian Harradine was Australia’s longest-serving independent senator, representing Tasmania for 30 years. He also held the Senate balance of power from late 1994 to March 1996, […]
Self Care in the Life of Service
“First Fit Your Own Mask”: Self Care in the Life of Service Monday, 7 April 2014  | Jennifer Turner “First fit your own mask before helping the person next to you.” The routine message about emergency oxygen masks before a plane takes off always gets me thinking: Does the same thing apply in life? Do I […]
Confession must be subject to mandatory reporting
March 26, 2014 Bryan Keon-Cohen, Joseph Poznanski The absolute confidentiality of the Catholic Church’s confessional puts vulnerable children at risk. Illustration: Andrew Dyson. While the Catholic Church appears willing to accept the Victorian parliamentary committee’s recommendations in its report Betrayal of Trust, the church hierarchy rejects the application of a mandatory reporting regime to the sacrament […]
JOHN STOTT: A Tribute to a Mentor
By Rowland Croucher Who are the people who have influenced me most? Intellectually: look at my 100 recommended books. (Note to myself: this needs updating). Maturationally: George Clark, my Sunday School teacher when I was a teenager. He alone helped me believe in myself. Ecclesiologically: probably Rev. (now Bishop) Dudley Foord. He gave me the […]
John Claypool: My favorite (writing) preacher
Here’s a miscellany of stuff about the best (in my view) ‘writing preacher’ / ‘preaching writer’ in the latter half of the 20th Century. Unfortunately he’s not well known outside progressive mainline circles in the U.S. (conversely W E Sangster isn’t well-known in the U.S.). Pity. ~~~ JOHN CLAYPOOL Once a month, while pastoring a […]
Q&R Foreword, Introduction, Contents, Chapter One: Good & Evil
QUESTIONS AND RESPONSES FOREWORD When someone makes an appointment to see me, a ‘generalist’ pastoral counselor, what do we talk about? Short answer: anything at all that’s important for them. Within the first five minutes I invite my parishioner/client to ‘give me a headline or two’. And, then, mostly, we jump into the deep end. […]
‘I lost both of my hands, an eye and had damaged ear drums and…and. In the midst of great pain, I felt that God was with me.’
A challenge to us all, from someone who’s paid a high price to be an advocate for peace and justice for all… ~~ WCC 10th Assembly 8th October 2013 Sermon Father Michael Lapsley, SSM Director of the Institute for Healing of Memories Cape Town, South Africa Peace be with you. I greet you all as […]
Is a Neurotic Form of Christianity Destroying America?
July 12, 2013  Posted by: Robert De Filippis “The deconstruction of Christianity is not an attack on the church but a critique of the idols to which it is vulnerable – the literalism and authoritarianism, the sexism and racism, the militarism, and the love of unrestrained capitalism with which the church in its various forms has […]
Parents/educators: this is compulsory reading
Perfectly flawed BY:NIKKI GEMMELL From:The Australian July 27, 2013 Striving for perfection. Do you perceive the obsessive engine that drives the high achiever as enviable – or tragic? A leading girls’ school in England is launching an exam where it’s impossible to get full marks, to prevent students becoming obsessed with being “Little Miss Perfect”. […]
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