Archive for May, 2006
Material Affluence, Relationships and Environmental Effluence
Here’s an emailed link from sheena (should think up a catchy word to describe emailed links – how about mink, linkmail, lmail, murl, urlmail, umail?). Anyway, makes some good points about what we value at the moment.
Economy tells only part of the story – Opinion – smh.com.au
every two years the bureau issues a report that [...]
Posted: May 31st, 2006 under Moralising.
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Busted Halo
James found me a new website bustedhalo.com . It has a pretty funny piece on christian bumper stickers.
Christian Bumper Cars|bustedhalo.com
As if inflated gas prices weren’t punishment enough, driving my car now not only makes me poorer it makes me feel spiritually inferior as well. Every time I get stuck behind one of these mobile [...]
Posted: May 26th, 2006 under Blasphemy.
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Annoying Classmates
I was at my theology lecture last night and it was an interesting topic – feminist theology . I guess I should have known the way it would go. My classmates have a tendancy to hijack the lecture in order to argue any unsettling ideas that confront them.
I guess studying theology is not [...]
Posted: May 25th, 2006 under Theology.
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Firefly
My apologies for recent neglect of this blog. It’s not that I’ve lost momentum or stopped having ideas, I still think blogging is a great way to trigger reflection but I’ve had to devote every spare second to my assignment and a few essays I have to write as part of the discerment thing.
I [...]
Posted: May 24th, 2006 under Blah.
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Da Vinci Da Schminci
As much as I want to resist adding to the hype of Dan Browns books and movie, it’s the topic of the day so here’s something worth a read…
e~mergent kiwi: preaching the Da Vinci Code
at this point, you’re probably thinking, poor Steve, wasting his time reading books and going to movies that are more fiction [...]
Posted: May 22nd, 2006 under Blasphemy.
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Naked
Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit. – Edward R. Murrow, journalist (1908 – 1965)
Posted: May 16th, 2006 under Quotes.
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Discernment III
Saturday gone was part three of the discernment workshops that I’m attending as part of the process of getting into the formation process which hopefully will result in my ordination as a priest in the Anglican church.
The topic was the nature of priesthood but it really focussed on the family issues that come up for [...]
Posted: May 16th, 2006 under Formation.
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