Originally posted on Wembley Downs Church of Christ:
Exploring the abundance and joy of the first sign in John’s gospel with Ray and Kath’s 6oth wedding anniversary added some zip to this morning’s service!
Category Archives: Personal
Place and Time: Peterson’s Pastoral Imagination
Some of the most evocative reading I’ve engaged over the Christmas/New Year break has been from Eugene Peterson’s The Pastor: a memoir . The development of what he has famously described as “pastoral imagination” is to the fore throughout the telling of his autobiographical pilgrimage. His opening section, Topos and Kairos, I found immediately compelling. TheContinue reading “Place and Time: Peterson’s Pastoral Imagination”
Anitipodean hope
So, my WordPress annual report reveals 2012’s five most read posts on this blog. I can only respond with a haiku and a caricature! wattle day, red dog,dot painting, signs, Holy Mondayantipodean hope
Joy in the midst of tragedy?
Church had a challenge wrestling with the Advent theme of Joy today. Already keenly attuned to this world’s dark places, many were processing the still-fresh news of the Connecticut school shooting tragedy. Today’s worship leader, Linda, was thoroughly tuned in. As we focused on the Lord’s Supper, itself a connection between the sad sorrow ofContinue reading “Joy in the midst of tragedy?”
National Indigenous Television (NITV) Goes Free to Air 12 December 2012
Looking forward to tuning in here…
Devious Diggers and Wondrous Widows
A couple of old AIF paybooks and a notebook scrawled with addresses of billets in WWI France came to light in a clean-up the other day. They belonged to my grandfather who died the year before I was born. Handling them once again gave the sense of missed connection. From all accounts, he sat lightlyContinue reading “Devious Diggers and Wondrous Widows”
A Biocentric view of the Cosmos
Our lectionary reading stopped at verse 25 of the Creation hymn of Genesis 1 – before it got to the arrival of human beings on this planet! This more or less enforced a biocentric rather than an anthropocentric reflection on the first Genesis creation story. The Shorter Oxford Dictionary defines anthropocentrism thus: “humanity as the central factContinue reading “A Biocentric view of the Cosmos”
How to Recover from the ‘Flu…
… when you get to convalescing, that is, after the fever breaks. Order some nice Perth winter sunshine (about 18ºC) following a rainshower that leaves everything fresh. Find a (dry) wind-sheltered possy over looking the Indian Ocean. Buy a nice hot chocolate from the beach kiosk that just happens to be open for your convenience.Continue reading “How to Recover from the ‘Flu…”
PC Blues
No – not political correctness – personal computers. Like the little girl with the curl in the middle of her forehead, when they are good they are very, very good; when they are bad they are horrid! (Incidentally, how PC is this old nursery doggerel today?) Our more frequent thunderstorms saw the need to replaceContinue reading “PC Blues”
Returning from the blogging desert…
I discreetly upload this bookmark to acknowledge an urge to emerge from the blogging desert. Life events and preoccupations (including computer crashes) have seen this blog vacant for a while. The frantic blogaday of 2011 gave away to blog no day for several months in 2012 – a spectacular promise of fireworks that fizzled outContinue reading “Returning from the blogging desert…”
