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Research proves arming teachers won’t make students safer — ThinkProgress
After last week’s school shooting in Parkland, Florida, Americans are imploring their leaders to take serious action on gun control. During a town hall Wednesday night, for instance, survivors of the shooting suggested plenty of steps that could be taken, … Continue reading
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Lectionary Sermon for December 10 2017 (2B) on Mark 1, 1-8, Isaiah 40 1-11
We live in a world where papering over the cracks has been elevated to an art form. Far from self assessment, getting ready for Christmas has come to mean responding to advertising, putting up shiny decorations, twinkling lights and listening … Continue reading
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Tagged Elijah, Isaiah, John the Baptist, Mark
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Lectionary Sermon for 2 July 2017 on Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30
Ours is not the first generation in history where people have displayed feelings of superiority when they involve themselves in conversations describing the shortcomings of those who have chosen different paths of enlightenment. It is an age old game where … Continue reading
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Lectionary Sermon for 7 August 2016 on Luke 12:32-48 (Year C, Pr 14)
On Looking Busy (an edited version of my sermon on the same topic for 11 August 2013) In the spoof spy film “Johnny English” there is one scene where the evil pretender to the British Crown is readying a look-alike … Continue reading
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SOME INITIAL BACKGROUND THOUGHTS ON THE TURKISH COUP ATTEMPT
The current and now failed coup attempt causing initial disruption in Istanbul and Ankara may indeed be sending shockwaves through Turkey but no one who follows Turkish politics should be overly surprised. For a good few years now the Army has … Continue reading
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Lectionary Sermon for Easter Sunday 27 March 2016 on Luke 24: 1-12
“Christ is risen!” And they all replied….. “Christ is risen indeed”. It is clear that many in the wider Christian Church take it for granted that they are expected to make this response. However if there should be a supplementary … Continue reading
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Tagged Buechner, David Strauss, Gollum, He is risen, Lloyd Geering, Marcus Borg, resurrection, Ted Baker, Tom Wright
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Some thoughts on Euthanasia
The decision to allow for the termination of life has some interesting legal and ethical implications which require precise legislation. I suspect that with of the order of more than six out of ten New Zealanders supporting an end of … Continue reading
Failed Prophecies of Joseph Smith
Failed Prophecies of Joseph Smith (information gleaned from the 1997 study of the same name by the Institute of Religious Research) Joseph Smith has often been called The Prophet by members of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter … Continue reading
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Harry Potter…not me!
As a retired science educator and sometime amateur stage magician I have always enjoyed presenting jaw dropping demonstrations. Unfortunately as a self confessed hard boiled cynical showman, it is one thing to organize a flash of fire, float a lady … Continue reading
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