Our Church has a new band.
The musical variety, I mean. Complete with guitars (acoustic and electrical), drums, keyboard and a group of vocalists with angelic voices. All made up from our youth.
I got to hear them play (or ‘jam’, as they preferred to call it) last Sunday, and I was stunned. Not only did the […]

“All you need is love.”
Thus sang the Beatles in one of their chart toppers (that incidentally also brought in a whole lot of money that they didn’t really need). “Love, love, love.” A beautiful sentiment; fill the world with love. But which love? What were they really after? Did they fill the world with love? […]

“Love God, and do whatever you will” - St Augustine
This brief quote from one of the most eloquent Christians in history is a profound description of the liberty of the spirit that has truly known God. Our Lord Jesus Himself described this person’s freedom of spirit poetically when He said:
“The wind blows where it […]

I’ve just finished reading the latest book by British philosopher, Antony Flew. He is now in his eighties, and has come to a conclusion that has startled the world. The title of the book sums up his conclusion quite nicely:
“There is A God”
The subtitle explains the amazement of the world:
“How the world’s most notorious […]

Walking along one day, I began to feel the raindrops on my face. This worried me a little, as the clouds above were pretty heavy and grey, and I was still some distance from my destination (a hospital). But it was the afternoon, and despite the heavy grey canopy directly above, the afternoon sun was […]

Ah, the Pain, the Pain!- Dr Zachary Smith in Lost in Space
Why did God create us to be able to feel pain?
Pain is one of the most unpleasant experiences a person can go through. We do everything we can to avoid pain. Just think of your fear of the dentist’s chair, or of stepping […]

The Prayer of the Veil
There is a little prayer prayed silently by the priest each liturgy that goes all but unnoticed by the congregation. It is indeed a very personal and intimate prayer, but it is one that the congregation can share, at least in spirit. It is called the Prayer of the Veil, for […]

The recent episode in a Sydney Art Gallery opened up a lot of wounds. Talented photographer Bill Henson had half his exhibit confiscated by police and found himself arrested and charged with producing child pornography. The offending material was a series of semi-nude photographs of a young girl, just on the verge of puberty.
“Philistines!” was […]

“God is able to make children of Abraham out of these stones”Matthew 3:9
Like a master stonemason, God carves saints out of many different kinds of stone. Just as the beautiful pearly lustre of white marble differs fromt he sullen, brooding roughness of a dark granite, the Master Craftsman uses the natural properties of each type […]

For all sad words of tongue and pen;The saddest are these: ‘It might have been’.
Thus wrote John Greenleaf Whittier, to which Bret Harte replied:
If, of all words of tongue and pen,The saddest are, ‘It might have been’,More sad are these we daily see;‘It is but hadn’t ought to be!’
It is interesting to contemplate on what […]