During the Daesh (ISIS) reign of terror in the Middle East, the Arabic letter ‘N’ was painted on the homes of Christians. ‘N’ is short for Nazarene – a name often used for Jesus in the Gospels and for his disciples in the Acts of the Apostles.
This past week a pall of smoke hung over our city, as the Sydney, Illawarra and Hunter regions were alerted that they were in “Catastrophic Fire Danger”.
Drought, death and diaconate: three themes in our minds today. Drought because the Church in Australia is praying throughout the month of November for our parched land and those affected.
When was the last time you climbed a tree? For most of the children here it’s the most natural thing in the world, something you may regularly do just because the tree is there, or for the challenge of it, or in order to see further.
Part of the genius of Christianity over the centuries has been its ability to take to itself a whole menagerie of ideas that come from outside it. In our own age the analytical philosophy, democratic politics, capitalist economics, Marxist analysis,
After the 2016 Rio Olympics, an image went viral of the American swimmer, Michael Phelps, and the one in the next lane, Chad le Clos. Phelps is focused solely on the finishing line, but le Clos is turned towards his arch-rival Phelps.
The 13th century was a great one for saints. There were some exotics such as Isfrid of Ratzeburg, Artaldus of Savoy, Engelbert of Cologne, Adolf of Osnabrück,
The Story of Dives and Lazarus from the Codex Aureus of Echternach (c.1035)Jesus can be cryptic. He speaks in parables, the point of which is often unclear.
It’s a puzzling parable that one (Lk 16:1-13): Jesus seems to be praising a manager whose under investigation for misconduct including waste or embezzlement …
Iustitia or Lady Justice was the ancient Roman personification of justice, whom the Emperor Augustus elevated to a goddess and gave a temple in Rome.
“It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.”
What do you think of when you hear the word ‘culture’? Some people mean posh things like opera, art galleries and universities.
