Great quote from The Lingering Lemon of Death:

i think people love different things about jesus. some people love his compassion for the poor, others love him because he walked in power and could turn water into wine. listening to derrida i think i realized that i love jesus, to a great extent, because he was […]

One of our commenters on signposts has succumbed to the inevitable pressure and started a blog. She is still cleaning house a little, but go and check out Janet’s Journey.

Prime Minister Howard has proudly declared that the Australian economy is the strongest in the western world.
Kinda begs the question about who in the eastern world is stronger but that didn’t seem to be discussed. I do wonder how the man of steel rust is going to explain this comment when he meets President […]

Why the focus on Rumsfeld?
The Red Cross said on Sunday that its president, Jakob Kellenberger, personally told Secretary of State Colin Powell, Deputy Defence Secretary Paul Wolfowitz and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice about abuses at the prison during a meeting in Washington in January.

Jake commented on one of our homosexuality discussion threads with a […]

Discussion about homosexuality has been dominating this blog for some time. I want to outline something and get your feedback on it.
God has created someone homosexual - with feelings for the opposite sex.
The Biblical writers was not aware of this possibility, but rather were speaking about the sin of hetrosexual men participating in homosexual activity.
Therefore, […]

This morning in my inbox I received a request from a reader of this blog to post one of her reflections, saying, “Sometimes I think that some people get so caught up on being right, and making sure everyone else is the same brand of right, that real lifes and hearts get lost in the […]

As a follow up from my previous post about the torture of iraqi prisoners, a couple of items of further reading. First, I highly recommend this post from Father Jake quoting from an email account of training in the US Air Force Academy:

I find it ironic and tragic that people might believe Rumsfeld’s line […]

A thoughtful post from the green man about the recent revelations regarding abuses against iraqi prisoners:

The soldiers in the making must be
1. Brutalised to the extent that they can kill and maim without undue compunction. Think about it. We are placing these people in extremely traumatic situations and expecting them to not only cope but […]

These two motions were carried at our state AGM for Churches of Christ in Victoria and Tasmania. I have never been more proud of our movement of churches.
No.2. Federal policy on the treatment of refugees and asylum seekers.
The following resolution is brought before the Conference of Churches of Christ in Vic/Tas in response to […]

Apparantly, Bremer is another one of those disgruntled employees of the Bush Administration that we shouldn’t listen to. I think we now need to start questioning the management style of President Bush. He obviously isn’t treating his staff very well.

The head of the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq, Paul Bremer, warned six months before the […]