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I have to hand it to Marco, this one is really funny.

My grandparents lived in an isolated farmhouse in the middle of a large holding in Northern Victoria, far from any main roads. Whenever, therefore, they heard the sound of a vehicle (a rather infrequent event), my Grandmother would call out … Continue reading →

Ah, the way it should be. Psalm 133:1 “How very good and pleasant it is when brothers live together in unity.” See this website: www.patriarchate.org

Three news items caught my attention last month, and I have hesitated about blogging on them, because I don’t really want to cast nastertiums on anyone. I was just interested in the way the stories played off against each other. … Continue reading →

Barney Zwartz, our local erstwhile Religious News reporter for The Age, has cobbled together a report on the latest rumours about the next BIG THING to come out of Rome, this time on the old “Condoms and AIDS” chestnut, in … Continue reading →

Speaking of “other” blogs, you might want to take a peek at the new “Ecumenical and Interfaith Newsblog“. This is a trial to replace something I have been doing at work now for several years, called the Email News (you … Continue reading →

I have finally updated my Year of Grace retro-conversion blog with two new posts. For those of you who have not visited my “other blog”, “Year of Grace” is where I am slowly publishing the diary that I kept for … Continue reading →

The Caroline Chisholm Library Presents70th AnniversaryCapturing The Imagination:GK Chesterton & Culture Seminar & Anniversary DinnerSaturday 2nd December, 2006 To mark the 70th Anniversary of Chesterton’s death, to promote the Library’s Chesterton collection and to remind ourselves of the importance of … Continue reading →

“My friends, I must ask you an important question today: where do you stand on God?” This is how Gary Wolf begins his lead article at www.wired.com called “The Church of the Nonbelievers”. His basic position is that the “New … Continue reading →

I often think that if we were to sit down and try to construct a religion, taking as our first base simply that there is one God and working into it generally accepted religious practices, we would come up with … Continue reading →