Bogosity

Another update from Bp Terry.

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Dear Friends,
I write simply a short update on the Solomons situation. I have returned to Auki after four days in Honiara. Auki is returning to normal, with most of the Chinese stores re-opened and the town full of people. Still shipping between Auki and Honiara is somewhat limited, as police try [...]

I’m pretty pleased with myself for getting a HD for my first assignment. Just in case someone out there wants to read it, here it is as a PDF

A few choice quotes (in this context the word revelation refers to the concept of God making God’s self known rather than the biblical book. Sources [...]

This weeks readings are all about Jesus’ appearances after the resurrection and the Acts of the Apostles – generally a lot of mention of the Holy Spirit. The apostles got up to a lot of shenanigans that all started with pentecost which we will celebrate in a couple of weeks. But before that, [...]

More from Bp Terry.

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Dear Friends,

Just a few notes from Honiara on a Monday morning.

(1) It is now half past ten and there hasn’t been a moment since I woke up that there have not been helicopters circling overhead, some of them quite low.  I suppose this is part of the RAMSI big-stick approach.  The Parliament [...]

Interesting little story about a cosmonaut who believed.

Journey – Queensland Uniting Church – ‘Atheist’ Soviet cosmonaut Gagarin supported Church says colleague

during a Communist Party meeting on anti-religious propaganda. “Khrushchev gave the party and Komsomol [the Communist youth organization] the task of engaging in this propaganda and said, ‘Why should you clutch at God? Here is [...]

Just finished watching ‘Who wrote the bible’ which was on compass this week and last week but I ended up watching it on channel BT . The version I watched was from Channel 4 in Britain and they advertised this cool website at the end:

Channel 4 – Can you believe it? – Home

Today religion [...]

Bishop Terry gave me permission to post this here. Despite Bp Terry’s criticism of RAMSI, I don’t think he is suggesting they pull out. He wants them to engage a bit more intelligently with the local population.

Dear Friends,

I do not have much to report, but a few reflections and bits of news on [...]