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Reflection Archives

This list contains past weekly reflections by Fr Paul on life, the world, faith and other matters. Happy Reading!

 

19-6-11 A Last Reflection on Moving love and the Trinity
12-6-11 Reflections on 'Difference leads to Reflection'
5-6-11 Emotions and Wholeness in worship, and where they 'go'
29-5-11 Climate Change, Powers and Principipalities and Stweardship
22-5-11 Why going to church is not just for 'fellowship'
15-5-11 What wearing a veil means for Catherine Middleton, moslem women, Nuns and how Christians can approach difference
8-5-11 Humility as self forgetfulness
1-5-11 What it means to 'believe in God'
24-4-11 Religious Education in Schools: Christiian initiation and love.
17-4-11 Bullying, RSI and responses to the 'Inhuman'
10-4-11 Loving the forms of tradition and breaking the mould. Both divine!
3-4-11 Responding to change: positives and negatives
27-3-11 The 'Dog Whisperer' and Christian Leadership
6-3-11 The idea of 'Journey' in Christian thought
24-11-11 How Christianity helps us to resist the 'big lies' we are told.
20-2-11 On Thirty Years of Being a Priest
13-2-11 A personal side to worrying about 'The future of the Church'
6-2-11 How I see God working in four stories of recent times
30-1-11 Lessons on persistence from the abolition of the slave trade
26-12-10 Why the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols is Important
19-12-10 Oprah Winfrey, Julian Assange and Jesus
12-12-10 Opening ourselves to love in the Eucharist. Not boring!
5-12-10 Christopher Hitchens and the 'Cosmic Accounting'
28-11-10 Holding fast to trusting God in the community, and the Church
21-11-10 The 'centre' and the 'edges' and Church life.
14-11-10 How our context helps and hinders our ministry
7-11-10 Advertising trends, difference and reflection
31-10-10 Applying my brains to the new technology, and screens in church
24-10-10 Two stories about faith and what they mean
3-10-10 What Church on Sunday is 'for'
26-9-10 Why we have 'Scritpure Engagement' as part of our informal Eucharists
19-9-10 Why Christianity is even better than knowing that football isn't everything
12-9-10 Why Christians should not burn the Koran
5-9-10 What 'Get Up's' training for political conversation can teach us, or not, about sharing the Faith.
29-8-10 The election result, and the moral dimensions of politics
22-8-10 The meaning of 'Green' and othe colours
15-8-10 On finding ways to have conversations with people who are different, in the context of thinkng about Islam and women
8-8-10 The theological world of 'Masterchef'
1-8-10 Jason Akermanis' Sacking, Religious Symbols and the Meaning of Life
25-7-10 Two examples of what has been done in the past which may be useful as 'Appreciative Enquiry'
18-7-10 The Wedding as apossibility for hope
11-7-10 Mr. Rudd's loss, and the Christian life
4-7-10 Making Advertisements Scapegoating & Jesus
27-6-10 Rowan Williams, The Rule of St. Benedict & Parish life
20-6-10 On Being Married and Being Christian and Freedom
13-6-10 Frederich Engels Christian Faith and the Economy
6-6-10 Insurance and the Body of Christ
30-3-10 How limitations in love can be recognised and worked with
23-5-10 Why we converted our pulpit into a font
16-5-10 Street conversations about Faith and how it is seen
9-5-10 Weddings and Baptisms as Initiation Rites
2-5-10 A.N.Z.A.C Day & Christianity. Human responses to big events
25-4-10 How all things are renewed. An Easter Reflection
Reflection 4-4-10 What uniforms and colours in and out of the Church tell us
Reflection 28-3-10 The Paedophilia scandal and the Gospel
Reflection 21-3-10 'Naming the Powers' about Lara Bingle and Climate change
Reflection 14-3-10 On going to Confession
Reflection 7-3-10 Death, Individualism, Church and Liturgy
Reflection 28-2-10 Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader, The Emperor and Easter.
Reflection 21-2-10 Lent and 'shopping'
Reflection 14-2-10 The cost of 'coming back to work'
Reflection 7-2-10 The fires, one year on.
Reflection 31-01-10 Sewing a Moor's leg on to a Christian by Saints Damian and Cosmas and what it can teach us about Christianity
Reflection 20-12-09 On Prejudice in the Newspaper, and owning our reactions
Reflection 13-12-09 On dealing with bureaucracy, owning my own pain, and changing unjust structures
Reflection 6-12-09 Reflections on themovie 'As it is in Heaven' and how institutions think.
Reflection 29-11-09 The coming train wreck and Christian Mythology
Reflection 22-11-09 How do we rate compared with Chinese Christians?
Reflection 15-11-09 How a few letters can change structural evil and put us in God's picture
Reflection 8-11-09 'Monk for a Month' Reflections on prayer and membership.
Reflection 1-11-09 Video Games, foundation mythology and violence.
Reflection 25-10-09 Why we don't have a data projector in Church for everything. The dangers of an uncritical approach to 'image based societies'
Reflection 18-10-09 Refugees and 'otherness' once more!
Reflection 11-10-09 Clergy Conference Notes: Fresh Expressions
Reflection 4-10-09 How an awareness of God's love has the potential to take away performance anxiety
Reflection 27/9/09 How disempowerment can be turned around by believing in God's love
Reflection 20/9/09 One year after the 'Global Financial Crisis' the worship of 'money' and the 'one true God'
Reflection 13/9/09 'Theories of the Atonement' and what they do for us
Reflection 6/9/09 How being a Christian gives us freedom from Fashion Week and other chains that bind you.
Reflection 30/8/09 How I manage doctrinal differences with love when it comes to saying 'The Angelus'
Reflection 23/8/09 On the death of a friend and what it touched off in me
Reflection 16/8/09 Why a house is advertised as an 'immaculate renovation' and the worship of the one true God
Reflection 9/8/09 Outreach, initiation and understanding the phrase 'and the Word became Flesh and dwelt among us.'
Reflection 2/8/09 How the Eucharist is 'Real Food'
Reflection 26/7/09 'Masterchef' and the Liturgy. How to worship the one true God.
Reflection 19/7/09 A Contribution from a member of the congregation in response to las week's reflection
Reflection 12/7/09 More on a Mission Shaped Church, Culture, Christ and Worship
Reflection 5/7/09 Retreat 2009. A Reflection
Reflection 28/6/09 Our 'Game (Mission) Plan' and having confidence in it
Reflection 21/6/09 On getting more 'truth' so that blame is reduced
Reflction 14/6/09 Why I have to be an 'apology' at the next meeting: On the significance of worship
Reflection 7/6/09 On broken knees, Church Schools, and the need to make Christians for ourselves
Reflection 31/5/09 On what is 'bottle' and what is 'contents' about the Gospel in Worship and Marriage. Reflections on synod debates.
Reflection 24/5/09 On Footblers and Chivalry
Reflection 17/5/09 Part 2 on the Church. Some Biblical and modern examples
Reflection 10/5/09 My journey with the church & how it connects with work here
Reflection 3/5/09 On Knowing what it is we are connected to: two stories.
Reflection 26/4/09 Why we need three levels of organisation in the Church, and the role that Sunday morning plays in establishing the claims of God in our lives.
Reflection 19/4/09 On the socialisation of visiting prisons and the 'iris reader'
Reflection 12/4/09 'The Last Valley' and a failure of nerve compared to Jesus, a true hero
Reflection 5/4/09 How to negotiate difficulties, now that the fires are out
Reflection 29/3/09 The importance of giving an account of our faith
Reflection 22/3/09 About 'the Reader' and Germany's future
Reflection 15/3/09 At a Funeral. Why priests are important, how a young life reflected Christ's life
Reflection 8/3/09 It's a Miracle! Still winds and rain: what a 'miracle' means to me
Reflection 1/3/09 Responding to the fires after the 'hot' phase
Reflection 22/2/08 How Christian Story helps us to think during & after disasters
Reflection 15/2/09 Silence and a modest perspective on the fires.
Reflection 8/2/09 Holidays, being a guest and the Eucharist
Reflection 1/2/09 A Child's response to her father, emotion, and love
Reflection 4/1/09 Random Christian thoughts about Christmas
Reflection 28/12/08 How people distance themselves from Christ, and come close at Christmas
Reflection 21/12/08 Why the Church is not a shop but has some elements in common with retailing as we commend the good news
Reflection 14/12/08 Culture change in the church looking back & now!
Reflection 7/12/08 What the 'Offertory Procession' in the Lirurgy is for.
Reflection 30/11/08 Advent as a counter-cultural time of preparation
Reflection 23/11/08 Farming, the weather and 'blokes' religion
Reflection 16/11/08 Four ways of experiencing the presence of God
Reflection 9/11/08 Christian liturgies: how they connect with life and hold us in meaning.
Reflection 2/11/08 Thinking like a Christian about fishing and forgiveness
Reflection 26/10/08 How aborigines activity about 'country' helps me
Reflection 19/10/08 On Rites of Passage, Baptism and Britt Lapthorne
Reflection 12/10/08 Acting ourselves into new ways of thinking, and Francis McNabb
Reflection 5/10/08 What does it mean to be 'relevant' and to whom?
Reflection 28/9/08 On Baptism and true humanity
Reflection 21/9/08 The Current economic crisis and the worship of God and money
Reflection 14/9/08 On 'Nature's Own Sistine Chapel'. Humanity, Nature and Art.
Reflection 7/9/08 Mission in Europe. What I learned on my Conference Trip
Reflection 10/8/08 On Australia, Nazi Germany and Refugee policy
Reflection 3/8/08 On Leadership
Reflection 27/7/08 Why having a 'mother tongue' and 'mother religion', while learning and learning from others is better than 'mix and match'
Reflection 20/7/08 Being relieved that someone at a high level is doing something about climate change
Reflection 13/7/08 Response to GAFCon (2) Which bits of culture are blessable?
Reflection 6/7/08 Recent events from GAFCon. prompt the question 'Where does authority in the Anglcian Church reside?'
Reflection 29/6/08 On Being Tortured, a Christian and the Church
Reflection 22/6/08 The Australian Desert 'silence and death': Good Friday.
Reflection 15/6/08 On leaving together what God has joined together
Reflection 8/6/08 On Failure, Creativity, Humility and God
Reflection 1/6/08 Why Christians are made not born
Reflection 25/5/08 What I like about being Anglican
Reflection 18/5/08 On being on retreat
Reflection 11/5/08 On Pamela Bone's funeral. Being on the journey and protecting ourselves against God
Reflection 4/5/08 Why it is right to bring the death of a beloved animal into the company of God.
Reflection 27/4/08 Why 'Leg lengthening' and other 'miracles' are not enough
Reflection 20/4/08 Sins retained and sins loosed
Reflection 13/4/08 Border Collies, Sheep, Patience and 'not taking things personally'
Reflection 6/4/08 How we areThe Body of Christ: In Nursing homes and parish life
Reflection 30/3/08 Hope in the face of hard realities
Reflection 23/3/08 Hope, Despair, and God's love at Easter.
Reflection 16/3/08 Keeping Holy Week
Reflection 9/3/08 How working with horses led me to muse about fear, fragility and faith.
Reflection 2/3/08
What do you do when you disagree with the content of someone else's public prayer?
Reflection 17/2/08 Our Parish projects and making changes through 'crisis' or 'systemic change'
Reflection 10/2/08 About the 'dissolution of authority' and how it affects us.
The Church in Germany on the basis of holiday reflections.
Reflection 23/112/07 How we approach others, surface and depth, and God's approach to us at Christmas
Reflection 16/12/07 So when are 'church going days' over?
Reflection 9/12/07 Why keeping Advent is a political act
Reflection 2/12/07 The Election, the 'Moral Agenda' and Going to Church: is it 'Quaint'
Reflection 25/11/07 Holding the line in hope, in the face of 'counter-stories'
Reflection 18/11/07 Our Children's 'Thanksgiving Feasts', Adult's Worship and who comes
Reflection 11/11/07 Being Church in a changing culture with our eyes open
Reflection 4/11/07 Torture, suffering Jesus' Story and the grounds for hope
Reflection 28/10/07 Getting the balance right betweeen being 'for' others and being 'with' others
Frodo's story in Lord of the Rings, Marriage Singleness and God.
Reflection 14/10/07 On climbing Everest, death, and finding out what really matters
Reflection 7/10/07 On The Grand Final and finding something worth worshiping
Reflection 30/9/07 On Riding and Holiness
Reflection 9/9/07 Reasons why the Church matters more than it did
Reflection 2/9/07 Changing parish culture following a model of an outback school teacher
Reflection 26/8/07 Better ways to change things than 'Huffing and Puffing'
Reflection 19/8/07 How Sacraments work: Baptism and Eucharist

 

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