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Separated Churches and Nations: Blessings for the Neighbours Cow

Separated Churches and Nations: Blessings for the Neighbours Cow

“Proddies, Proddies, ring the bell. While the Catholics go to hell.” My mother heard variants of this sung between the Catholic and Protestant school kids when she was growing up. .

  • Time to rewrite Australian history

    For a long time I wondered why, given that the Australian Aborigines are purportedly the oldest civilization on earth (45 000 – 65 000 years old), there was not much evidence of buildings or technology among their culture.

  • Christian Foundation Counts!

    I would love a dollar for every time I am asked, do we have a Christian foundation as a nation?

  • A letter from father to son on his 18th birthday – The Microfibre towel

    A letter to my son on the occasion of his 18th birthday.

  • Power of the Tongue

    Years ago I interviewed a young man who faced a murder charge. “I don’t know what the fuss is about, I only killed a wog,” he told me. (‘Wog’ was a derogatory term used to describe a foreigner).

  • Painful Praise

    I was dialoguing with a pastor friend the other day about how his wife is doing; he replied that she is rather down and directionless. Knowing this lady had serious traumas from her childhood I then went on to enquire about something that took him by surprise; “Does she sing along with the congregation when she goes to church on Sundays?”

  • Oh, my aching back

    Picking up rubbish. Sometimes it seems to take all my spare time.

  • Putting a Bow on It

    Shoppers at Eastland Shopping Centre in Melbourne might have been forgiven for thinking that royalty, or at least a President, were in town. Earlier this month, it was the scene of chaos as 15,000 people—mostly made up of tweens and their parental escorts—descended on the shopping centre en masse.

  • What the church can learn from the murder of Eurydice Dixon

    The recent rape and murder of Eurydice Dixon in Melbourne has highlighted again the problem of male violence in our culture, particularly that directed towards women.

  • Who are we?

    My wife and I attended a fundraising function at which the clinical psychologist after-dinner speaker told how identity can give authority.

  • Let me tell you a story

    These six words, “Let me tell you a story…” are among the most powerful words in the English language, or any language for that matter.

  • Gifts that Matter

    “Oh, not another floral tie!” The thought of having to wear another tacky gift or display that plastic trophy on his desk for another 12 months made him nervous. Recently, a friend was apprehensively telling me about the gifts he was expecting for Father’s Day.