(Images from Springbrook Qld, Jan 23, 2021)   “The genius of Anglican education” An In-Service on educating in the Anglican Tradition   Teaching Staff, The Springfield Anglican College 20 Jan 2021 Fr Richard Browning   Following the PD session, the staff shared a whole range of questions. All of them are interesting. I have taken […]

How can we help students mark a movement from one place into another? I have been using labyrinths for decades now. I have never seen one like this. It still involves twists and turns. It still leads the walker to the centre. But it has a different entry and exit and lands you ‘across on […]

Ash Wednesday Service   (a starter kit) 2021       Overarching THEME: Nurturing Relationships   Guiding premise: If not for others, then not for life; if not with others, then not with God. A movement towards others is a movement into wholeness.   Message: God’s love is uncontainable. (Get over it.) God’s mercy is […]

A Hill to Climb, in full : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/20/amanda-gorman-poem-biden-inauguration-transcript Beauty will save the world. Line by line you can read it with your ears and hear it in the lilt of Amanda Gorman’s voice. There is a hill to climb. It is not for storming. It is not for rising as a mob to rally to […]

  It is a week after the riot that burst into the halls of power in Washington. See in this shocking event a window into the face of the mob. There is no greater beast than a mob, high on righteousness and clear on the object of its disgust. One police officer was beaten and […]

Faith by calendar Christmas is familiar. Maybe too familiar. We live in a culture that has twisted Christian practices. We live in a cult of acquisition (masked as giving) and consumption (masked as celebration). There is even an examination of ethical integrity, minus the confession and contrition, asked by an overweight bearded imaginary super freak […]