Did everyone come through OK?
3 responses to “So out of touch”
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The *other* half of that `presbyterian model’ quote is truly barf-worthy especially given several unpleasant incidents hitting the press in the past 6 months.
I think `Whenever there are progressive values around’ might be happening at the level of society as a whole, not just in churches, though.
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I’d rather like to think that it would be obvious to people in the various churches that no one system owns a “reflection, consultation, debate and discernment” model. Such ways of working can be found in different churches. Failures to work in such ways call also be found in different church systems.
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We are hijacked by people who scream and scream until they are sick (they can, you know) and lack the guts to say ‘Here is the bucket’. The attempt to ‘keep all the balls in the holes’ shows a total lack of any grasp of what leadership means.
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Sermon preached for All Saints 2011
One of the nights of my life which I most remember is the night that I was ordained as a priest. It was in our cathedral in Perth and was very magnificent. Someone preached a great sermon. The music was as good as it could have been. The crowd was large and their welcoming of…
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Tented Villages
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The Contented Life – Spirituality and the Gift of Years by Robert Atwell
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The Pink List
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