In June this year, I attended a seminar presentation about the Scriptures hosted by the Council of Christians and Jews NSW. The venue was a hall of the Great Synagogue, Elizabeth Street, Sydney. Two presentations were given. The first by…
In early late January and early February 2011, two cyclones bore down upon the Queensland coast. Cyclone Yasi was the largest storm in the State’s history and much larger than the other cyclone, which led the Premier to describe them…
“Be thou there until I bring thee word.” I came across this sentence in the biography of John Stott. It was in a letter he wrote to someone about his experience of becoming Rector of All Souls Langham Place. I…
The Hebrew language can have some curious links which are obscured in English bible translations. The burning bush is one example with the word ‘flame – labba‘, which seems to have a cognate link with the word for ‘heart’. “And the…
“You have heard that it was said, You shall not commit adultery. But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart. If your right eye…
When I was about 10 years old I donated Herman Melville’s book ‘Moby Dick’ to my school. Each year there was a ‘Book week’ and the school hall would be filled with beautiful books – shiny, glistening, non-fiction, fiction, all…
Reading around in preparation for Good Friday I returned to this old chestnut debate – the phrase ‘he descended into hell’ which we used to say in the Apostles’ Creed using the book known as AAPB (An Australian Prayer Book).…
“But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done…
