Bogosity

Brother William’s most recent blog post dicusses St Francis, nature, the environmental crisis, mysticism, the meaning of life and of course, qantum physics (I challenge William to write a blog post that doesn’t mention qantum physics).

The Divine Universe » THE HEAVENLY FOOL

Here’s a few bits that I really liked:

The resurgence of mysticism in the West, [...]

I mentioned awhile back that a bunch of people from around Brisbane Anglican churches are forming a group devoted to setting an environmental agenda in the mission of the Anglican church in the Brisbane diocese.

The first of the groups activities is to put together a kit for running services to celebrate world environment day. [...]

I’m going to save up some of the random links and stuff that I read on the slower days and put them all in one post called ‘Odd Bits’ at the end of the day so that I don’t push the actual posts that I thought about off the bottom of the page. So [...]

This one comes from Sheena, it’s about churches starting to get active about climate change.

Saving the Earth can’t be left up to God, faithful warned – National

IN THE beginning, the environment ranked behind public morality, personal salvation and social justice as the chief concerns of the religious majority.

But the face of faith is now a [...]

Lots of posts today because I got my blogging mojo back.

I went to the Felix Arnet lecture the other week which is a yearly thing that St Francis’ College puts on where they get a guest speaker in. This year it was Philip Carter who is a spiritual director based in Adelaide I think.

Anyway, [...]

I like this article on news.com about Patrice Newell. She has some interesting things to say about farming and I like the way that a respect for nature informs her farming practice. She also says something interesting about vegetarianism.

Trusting in nature | The Courier-Mail

It was a big step for someone who had no [...]

Another good religion report last week (still catching up). This time about the environment (specifically the mining of metals) which I haven’t posted on for a while. Ian Hore-Lacy is the writer of a book called Responsible Dominion. From the title you can pretty immediately work out that he’s coming from the [...]