Author Archives: wonderingpilgrim

9 months!

That’s how long it has been since I’ve scrawled on this blog. Facebook and, to a lesser extent, Twitter, have seen more regular utterances during this time. Why? Perhaps a bit more immediate. I am usually reacting to or commenting on a stimulus that appears on social media. Blogging, for some unknown rationale in myContinue reading “9 months!”

At Year’s End…

From my sister in Adelaide. I somehow think my whole family’s caught up in Franciscan ambience! A Franciscan Blessing May God bless you with a restless discomfort about easy answers, half-truths, and superficial relationships, so that you may seek truth boldly and love deep within your heart. May God bless you with anger at injustice, oppression, andContinue reading “At Year’s End…”

In Between Times

I’m at work in the church study. It is eerily quiet on a day that would normally be abuzz – the rooms full of people going about their art and craft activities, sharing stories, encouraging, commiserating, inspiring. This is an “in-between” time – a space of silence affording me time to do a little extraContinue reading “In Between Times”

Launch Pad

In these days of pause where nothing much seems to happen and no-one seems to take much notice anyway, politicians introduce policies that threaten fragile environments, reduce health benefits and cut back public transport. Policies and revisions of policies are quietly launched in the hope that no-one will notice. Something else is running quietly in the backgroundContinue reading “Launch Pad”

Continuously on the Path of Conversion.

Goodness! Yesterday’s piece seems stuffy with wordiness! It comes with trying to express the inexpressible. Let me translate. We followers of Jesus often fall into the trap of treating him as a remote figure who lived long ago and we have to reach over a huge 2000 year gap to access him. We often talkContinue reading “Continuously on the Path of Conversion.”

Less (maybe!) stirry… more powerful!

Time to pen some more thoughts following my previous rant here, now some months ago. Current conversations are around less controversial matters, but somewhat related in a base-line sense. How to reconcile what we can know of the historic Jesus through a self-imposed limited reading of the four Gospels with the phenomenon of the CosmicContinue reading “Less (maybe!) stirry… more powerful!”

My sedated rant on the LGBTA thing and the Church

I have long evaded the call to write on the current debate concerning LGBTA rights/rites and marriage. Today I was sedated for a medical procedure and warned not to do anything that would impair my judgment. What an invitation! Throwing caution to the wind, here is a summary of some of my thoughts on the whole LGBT,Continue reading “My sedated rant on the LGBTA thing and the Church”

Protesters against children in detention removed from parliament after sit-in | Australia news | The Guardian

Protesters against children in detention removed from parliament after sit-in | Australia news | The Guardian. Refugee Week, tenth anniversary of John Howard’s edict releasing children from detention under his government, 800th anniversary of Magna Carta, all coming together in this respectful act of protest by Church folk in our national parliament today. Release allContinue reading “Protesters against children in detention removed from parliament after sit-in | Australia news | The Guardian”