Pilgrim Church 9.30 Congregation Refugee Sunday, August 26,2016 Faith, Hope and Love abide, and the greatest of these is Hospitality! I wonder whether it is time we dropped the word ‘love’ from our vocabulary, particularly when talking in the public sphere. Any check of the dictionary will show that the most common meaning of ‘love’ …
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How to avoid putting up capital to have your book published by a recognised publishing house? How not to have a stack of your books sitting in the garage unsold? How to easily have your book available through all major on-line book sellers? I use Lulu.com Here’s one of their knowledge videos aimed at not-for-profits …
I think this could be very do-able. Picture Rundle Mall in Adelaide. What do you think? Want to join me in getting it off the ground in Adelaide?
(One of a series of quotations in many languages, displayed in frames, in the porch of St Hedwig’s Cathedral, near Alexanderplatz in Eastern Berlin) I have been arguing that Christians need to retire the word ‘love’. It has passed its used-by-date. A quick check of any dictionary will attest that ‘love’ has been reduced to a …
Going electric. 2. Buy On-line (Placed in a Shopping Centre!) 3. Donate/buy/travel from your phone. (no need for all those cards in your bulging wallet when they can all be on your iPhone or Apple Watch!) (On a shop window: Tap your bank card and it will take two …
Life is not all sunshine and light for younger creative people who have chosen not to take the seemingly easier path of employment – ‘getting a job’ in an established organisation – often choosing a trade-off between becoming cogs in a larger machine, with its seeming security of work and pay, and a risky freedom …
Celine is having a mid-morning breakfast, a boiled egg and coffee, sitting at a narrow table outside a little coffee shop in North-East London. She is catching up on a few phone calls before heading off to work. It is a beautiful day. I ask if she would mind me joining her, while son Nick …
Today I got wind of what I think is a very sad story. I see it akin to one of those Royal Commission into Institutional Abuse stories. Sad because it is a story of ignorance and control in a church where one would expect enlightenment and grace. I recall a conversation I had with my …
What a fascinating process, this business of writing a book. Certainly takes one out of circulation while you are working to a deadline. I have the opportunity of a launch at the Conference of European University Chaplains in Dublin at the beginning of June. That meant a launch in Adelaide before Sandy and I head …
My friend Robert Muller sent a link to The Now Tribe, which I pass on. It shows what can be done when a couple of social entrepreneurs put their mind to achieving a dream – 230,000 jobs created over ten years, impacting a million people in rural India. THE IMPACT of A DREAM: 230,000 …
