I really liked this post/poem/reflection on breathing space about the dark underbelly of love. It is all good, but an excerpt:
Wanting more of them than you can ever hope to receive in this life, and knowing that constant pain.
Allowing your beloved to do something to hurt themselves, keeping silent, knowing that to otherwise would […]

Without specifically admitting what I do for a living, let me share that often on my work days I hear the following statement:
All rise. This ‘n’th division of the [n] court of victoria is now in session. All who have business before this court are commanded to give their attention and they will […]

If you were to do a search on google for the words christian+chicken+yellow (as I did) you would be ushered to a great site, which many people may not be aware of. Of course, I am talking about the christian chefs fellowship. The christian chefs fellowship is
An international network of Christian cooks […]

There is a song by the Whitlams with this title. It includes the lyrics:
‘Cause God drinks down at the Sandringham these days
Since the Shakespeare changed its name
He drinks down at the Sandringham these days
He’s what we call alright around here
Talks a bit, he likes to sit
Watches people come in and smiles
Somehow we’re part […]

Do you think? I actually don’t, but lately phil and I have reflected on that there sometimes seems to be an undercurrent of real hostility towards the idea or the ethos of traditional churches.
Over the last couple of days steve has been reflecting on the different funding models for church planters and those involved […]

Amnesty International
Amnesty International calls for the United States not to have double standards on POW treatment.

Last night at a denominational business meeting I attended, we prayed together an adaptation of a Lenten prayer, the original full text of which can be found here. I was particularly struck by the following lines:
In this Lenten time of searching and self-understanding, give us the courage to confess that, by what we have […]

Now that the war is happening, it is useless to maintain the fiction that we can protest for peace. We are now left to the task of critiquing the way that the war is conducted and looking towards the future. The question becomes not ‘who will win the war?’, but ‘who will win […]

The media is beginning to focus on the easygoing attitude the Bush Administration has to international law, ie we proclaim it when it suits us. As this writer in the Age today puts it One Rule for them….
I continue to reflect on the power of the Tolkien myth of good and evil (you can use […]

As a reflection on Phil’s posts yesterday and some of the discussion in comments, the talking dog has summed up this quite nicely in a rant prompted by the US statements that Iraqis were treating US POWs in such as way so as to violate the Geneva convention says in part:
From a macro standpoint, THIS […]