“Wow, that was a great sermon today, wasn’t it!”“Yeah, and last week’s was really good too!”“Oh really? I missed that one.”“It was mad! One of the best I’ve heard.”“The one two weeks ago wasn’t so good though. Not enough oomph, you know? I thought it was really dry.”“No, I remember that one. Yeah, they let […]

Those of you who know me might know that I am interested in the stars.
The sky at night has always fascinated me, ever since I was little. I could lie for hours on my back on the ground just gazing up at that velvet dark blue canvas with the multitude of delicate sparkles of light […]

The bloated body of a dead child in a suitcase, floating on the calm waters of a pond.
That story must rank among the saddest we’ve seen in recent times. It turns out to have been the result of a very disfunctional family. A young mother with three children from three different fathers. The exact details […]

I recently came across an interesting book by a pretty conservative Eastern Orthodox theologian on the topic of women in the Orthodox priesthood. You can guess that he was against the idea. What struck me about the book, though, was that some of the arguments he used were totally alien to my understanding of the […]

Romans 12:9
Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil,Cling to what is good.
I gave a talk on this verse yesterday at Sydney Uni Coptic Society, and it made me think. Allow me to share some thoughts with you.
The thing that struck me most was the command for us to be ONE, to be whole. […]