I am seriously considering deleting this post. It appears that this post, which comes up first on the relevant google search, coincides with the title of an essay topic which is apparently regularly assigned to high school students in various parts of this wide brown land.
So periodically, we get a series of comments asking […]

Yep, as anticipated, the little bald man has announced that the election will take place on October 9. For our international readers, the commentary on our federal election will heat up in the next 6 weeks. Some may find this exotic, but if you are not one of them, feel free to ignore […]

My RSS reader saves me about 300 hours a week

Greg Hughes writes about how RSS and FeedDemon make him more productive.
“In a nutshell, RSS has enabled me to work (and play) on the ‘net in a way that would not be practical (or even possible) without the technology.”
Purchasing feeddemon as my rss reader of choice […]

And the award for the most predictable result ever goes to the recent poll indicating that the children overboard lies will not sway voters:

The Daily Telegraph newspaper reported a Galaxy Poll found 47 per cent of voters believe Mr Howard lied about the issue before the 2001 election.
It also found 31 per cent did not […]

Definition of failure - preach a sermon on how giving is a spiritual issue and some one remarks that they don’t want sermons on money, they want sermons on spiritual issues.
Ah you need a sense of humour

Ah money! You know I am becoming convinced that money is a huge challenge for the Church. We seem to have bought into the idea that it is a subject we can’t talk about or even explore. When we do so we are so much more comfortable making motherhood statements or talking about someone else’s […]

I have been reading Troppo Armadillo for a while now for some good commentary on law, politics and Australian culture.
Not long ago Troppo Armadillo re-categorised its blogroll. While the exercise might have caused some angst among some (see the comment thread in the above link), it is nonetheless an impressive list of Australian blogs […]

The other night we had the privilege of having Hamo come to visit to speak to our Tuesday night congregation. He showed us some pictures, he chatted to our congregation members and he shared some wisdom and discernment with us. We thanked him at the time, but this deserves a wider audience. […]

George in a recent thread commented the following and I was struck by the depth and sensitivity of the questions that he poses that I felt it deserved its own thread. In some ways, some of what is said here starts to get to the heart of many debates on signposts. I will comment in […]

From this interview today, the following struck me:

BENSON:
Yeah, we had a long stretch where no vice regal representative was forced from office, we’ve had two forced from office in the last year.
PRIME MINISTER:
There was one in Victoria.
PRIME MINISTER:
Yes, Guy Murray quite recently, he was pushed out.
BENSON:
Okay. But can […]