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According to this article, nature religions including paganism and wicca are amongst the fastest growing religions in this country and found that:

The modern Australian pagan is a female Melburnian under the age of 35 who was born in Australia, has a university degree and lives in a de facto relationship.

The research by the Christian Research […]

This weekend we had a couple of days of rest without computers and phones and those other intrusive modern devices.
I have been re-reading Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury - we are discussing it for our book group at our congregation Haven on Thursday. I have always loved this book, but I was particularly struck […]

I have been feeling down recently. It has been hard work over the last three years bringing four churches into one, gathering a new purpose and sense of mission. It has left me (and many of the other key leaders, I sense) feeling a little flat. It is like we are taking a breath - […]

I really like this:
So God explained what he wanted. “We’re having a relationship, right? So you should bring me flowers once a week,” he said, “And remember to ask how my day was. Yeah, and I want to be monogamous, so stop eyeing up other gods. And on our anniversary? I’d like jewellry or chocolates. […]

I will really try to make this the last post on this issue for a little while, but I couldn’t resist this article, which reports that the Sydney Anglican diocese yesterday expanded its list of banned clergy to include those that have pre-marital sex and failed to repent and celibate homosexuals. However, polygamists are […]

I have watched with interest what has been described as a “flame war” going on god blogs around the traps. Bene Diction has a good summary of the various relevant posts.
I am not going to comment on that particular discussion. The aspect of the discussion which interests me is a side issue. […]

Australian’s foreign minister spokesperson states the obvious:
the Australian Government’s conviction that there were weapons of mass destruction was “not solely based on intelligence”.
Seriously, this has to be the most honest comment to come out of the man of steel’s government for a long time.

Well the lefties of Australia will be outraged to hear about a few matters which apparently slipped through the gaps in the man of steel’s extensive vetting of the new governor general (let’s just call him “Junior Queen”).
In addition to his much publicised and since retracted statements about the “assimilation” of aboriginals (the text of […]

Five anglican bishops in sydney have called on the anglican bishops of the world to oppose homosexual marriages, saying that those in favour of same sex unions “…have abandoned the teaching of Scripture in … a flagrant manner”. They went on to say:

The moment for silence is past. There are many ways in which […]