2019, 22nd September

Greetings, By the time that you read this I will be on a few days Study Leave … in fact this is the last task I have to complete. Some…

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2019, 14th September

Greetings, Hearts Break … that was the front page headline that greeted readers of the Herald Sun Tuesday morning. The life and tragic death of AFL legend Danny ‘Spud’ Frawley…

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2019, 1st September

Greetings, This Sunday is Father’s Day, a day which honours fathers and celebrates fatherhood, paternal bonds and the influence of fathers in society. According to Wikipedia “in Catholic countries of…

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2019, 25th August

Greetings,  This week we have witnessed the rejection of George Pell’s appeal in the Supreme Court of Victoria, and have again been reminded of the pain that has been inflicted…

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2019, 18th August

Greetings, Earlier in the month I, and some others, were invited to attend the meeting of the Mont Albert North Probus Club who meet in Watson Hall each month. I…

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2019, 11th August

Greetings, At the last Church Council meeting Peta led devotions and as part of this raised the issue of mental health being something of great concern for many young people.…

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2019, 4th August

Greetings, Late last year, in preparation for this year, I read a book called The Hospitality of God: A Reading of Luke’s Gospel. In this book author Brendan Byrne (professor…

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2019, 28th July

Greetings, One of the big discussion topics at Synod was the response of the Uniting Church to the Voluntary Assisted Dying Act which was passed on 29 November 2017. This…

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2019, 21st July

Greetings, Early next week Tony’s mum celebrates her birthday so she is coming to dinner Sunday night. When people come over for a special celebration meal there is a sense…

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2019, 14th July

Greetings, As part of the Synod meeting we participated in Bible Studies each day. These were led by Dr Liz Boase who asked us to consider the following two questions…

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