Spirituality
POT POURRI: worth pondering…
I’ll probably add a bunch of items-to-think-about regularly (from my reading/devotions etc.) A pot-pourri of items on this week’s pocket-list to ponder: Kierkegaard: Life has to be lived forwards, but can only be understood backwards Yanis Varoufakis: A radical economist in the ’emperor has no clothes’ category. ‘The real purpose of right-wing politics is to […]
My Mid-life Crisis
Figuring out my mid-life crisis by Nils von Kalm http://soulthoughts.com I turned 45 this year, so I guess it ¢â‚¬â„¢s about time I had a midlife crisis. Mine has been partly self-inflicted and partly forced upon me. I suppose that ¢â‚¬â„¢s they way they happen though. No one really chooses to go through a crisis of identity. […]
‘Happiness’ vs ‘Joy’
¢â‚¬â€¹HAPPINESS AND JOY ARE NOT THE SAME In a memorable Peanuts cartoon Lucy asks Charlie Brown ¢â‚¬ËœDid you ever know anyone who was really happy? ¢â‚¬â„¢ Before she could finish the question Snoopy the dog comes dancing into the next frame. As only Snoopy can he dances his merry way across all frames while Lucy and […]
ACCEPTING DIVERSITY
Those who depend on obeying the Law live under a curse ¢â‚¬ ¦ the Law has nothing to do with faith (Paul). If [faith] is alone and includes no actions, it is dead (James). We have many parts in the one body, and all these parts have different functions. In the same way, though we are many, […]
MONKEY MIND (Richard Rohr)
(Richard Rohr on Dualistic Thinking) There are many words for it ¢â‚¬“ dualistic thinking, associational thinking ¢â‚¬ ¦ It ¢â‚¬â„¢s all about our human need for resolution, judgment, ¢â‚¬Ëœunderstanding ¢â‚¬â„¢ ¢â‚¬ ¦ The end-product of ¢â‚¬Ëœunderstanding ¢â‚¬â„¢? Accusations of ¢â‚¬Ëœheresy ¢â‚¬â„¢ (one side of the debate is superior, the other inferior) ¢â‚¬ ¦ Heresy must be destroyed – hence most disputes, wars, violence. In the […]
A Little Journey into Mystical Reality
(Or, what we don’t know can hurt us; as we also prone to make secondary things primary and primary things secondary…) A billion stars go spinning through the night blazing high above your head But within you is the presence the essence of what will be when all the stars are dead… The inner eye […]
WEDDING HOMILY (Find the Acronym!)
MARRIAGE (FIND THE ACRONYM!) On the 15th April, 1995, the Rev. Jan Croucher (my wife) and I ‘celebrated’ the marriage of our daughter Amanda, to John Southwell. The beautiful service at the Heathmont Baptist Church in Melbourne, Victoria, began with Amanda’s four cousins – sisters who are all brilliant musicians – playing Bach’s Air on […]
John McIntyre, a good bishop…
Gippsland Bishop John McIntyre dies, aged 62 11/06/2014 by Muriel Porter and Mark Brolly Bishop John McIntyre of Gippsland has died after a short illness. The 62-year-old bishop, who had led Gippsland ¢â‚¬â„¢s Anglicans since 2006, died at Monash Medical Centre, Clayton, on 6 June, almost a week after being admitted to intensive care. He is […]
Clergy as professional revolutionaries
by George Clifford Recently, I read Edward Dreyer’s history of wars in China during the first half of the twentieth century, China at War: 1901-1949 (London: Longman, 1995). Unless you have a particular interest in, and background knowledge of, those wars I do not recommend that you make the effort to read this specialist volume. What drew […]
Mavericks in the Church (may their tribe increase!).
IS THERE ROOM FOR MAVERICKS IN THE CHURCH? I came across an article the other day with this title [1]. It began with an IBM ad: ‘Dreams, heretics, mavericks, and geniuses. The story goes thatHenry Ford once hired an efficiency expert to evaluate his company. After afew weeks, he reported favorably except for one thing: […]
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