‘Spiralling Up or Spiralling Down?’ Actor Sam Neil lays out be basic choice we must make as we face the COVID pandemic – ‘Spiralling Up or Spiralling Down’? We pause on a chart that may help us make personal decisions if we are to ‘spiral up’. Isaac Newton and Nelson Mandela remind us that social …
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There are so many incidental things going on triggered by the threat of the Corona Virus pandemic. Here are two little snippets. A Demonstration of the Downside of Competition Fran Kelly’s Introduction to a segment on ABC Radio National ‘Breakfast’ on Tuesday morning: In clinical trials and laboratories worldwide, the hunt is on to find …
After Boris Johnson was elected new Prime Minister of the UK, a friend simply commented, probably on behalf of a large proportion of Brits, ‘God help us!’. How did they get into this mess? And how is his fellow charlatan in the US able to continue to get away with ripping the heart out of …
About twenty years ago I heard of a project to bring together Paris subway buskers for performances at a festival. I thought- what a great idea- to invite unrecognised musos to play together. There is so much talent there, looking for an outlet. Over the last month or so I’ve noticed some incredibly talented musos …
I am part of a small group who are exploring ways of making a difference for the wellbeing of others, and for society in general, each in our own domains. We meet once a month in a little Moroccan restaurant in the city. Increasingly over the last nine months, we have also been meeting each …
I was delighted to have a coffee with my theological mentor Norm Habel yesterday and to chat about things that came to mind of common concern. Norm has written yet another book, which will be out soon. It draws together a lifetime of biblical research related to one of his great passions of justice for …
“The greatest problem with communication is we don’t listen to understand. We listen to reply.” ― Roy T. Bennett (Quoted from Sidewalk Talk Monthly Newsletter, Nov. 2018) I am wondering where this ‘listen to reply’ comes from, to understand its roots, since it seems so widespread and such a roadblock to …
SAPOL invited me to provide a keynote presentation at their Police Chaplains Conference last week. They had found my work on Oasis at Flinders University on the Internet and thought the story might be of interest. When I sat down with the Acting Superintendent of the Health, Safety and Welfare Branch and the Manager of …
AMY CHURCHOUSE AND ‘BEAR’ I think it’s important to be grounded in the foundations underlying any paradigm. For me, Frederic Laloux’s work on paradigms of organisation, for example, provide greater clarity to understand and articulate the new paradigm of organisation that is emerging today. In my life as a chaplain, the foundational life of …
CLICK ON PHOTO FOR LARGER IMAGE I first met Andrew Mawson in 1995. Actually, I didn’t meet him – but saw him in the distance at the Bromley-by-Bow centre he had created, busy helping a group of disabled locals into a van – presumably for some kind of life-expanding excursion away from one of …
