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Cheryl Lawrie is a bright young thinker in the Uniting Church. The kind of gal of which the UCA could probably do with more. Despite this, although she appears to aim at being “alternative”, she is so very…well…Uniting Church. She … Continue reading →

My friend, Lutheran Pastor Fraser Pearce, is a happy boy. He has just bought himself a copy of Concordia Publishing House’s ‘The Treasury of Daily Prayer’ and is thrilled that CPH publishes such “stuff that is unashamedly Lutheran”. So, my … Continue reading →

…listen to this and feel better. http://www.burnsidewriterscollective.com/audio/oholynight.mp3 (HT to Sonitus Sanctus)

Now there’s an idea, I hear you say. Well, some bright spark has already had this idea and set up “God’s Blog” at http://god-has-a-blog.blogspot.com/. From a quick scan it looks very amusing. Just what we need before Christmas… (HT to … Continue reading →

I bet no one reading this blog has ever mulesed a lamb. (If you don’t know what “mulesing” is, see here) I have. Well, in fact, I tell a lie. I have never actually mulesed a lamb myself – but … Continue reading →

Ah, Catherine Deveny. If controversey is the key to success in the media business, then The Age certainly is onto a winner with this woman. And you know what? They’re proud of it! (see here) No matter, as we here … Continue reading →

Okay, he might not be quite “in the grave” yet, but I certainly found reading this paper by Cardinal Avery Dulles in First Things very useful to the discussion on the doctrine of religious freedom. Challenged by Josh on the … Continue reading →

Okay, it’s not an infallible definition or a Papal Encyclical, but it’s pretty high up on the level of magisterium. Here, I think, is the final and qualitative proof that Cardinal Pole is wrong when he asserts that Pope Benedict … Continue reading →

Cardinal Pole, on these pages and on his own blog, has put forward the following idea with regard to religious liberty: To say that “everyone has a natural right to the free exercise of religion” (call this proposition A) is … Continue reading →

It has been a long time coming. Here it is for those of you following the story. I had to edit this one a little. Lot’s of personal stuff in there. Some people have said I am taking a great … Continue reading →