Pilgrimage & Social Justice
Read my reflection on pilgrimage as a social justice practice. Share your virtual social justice pilgrimage ideas on our fb page. And here’s a prayer for the journey.
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Cluster Munitions
Check out my new site www.social-spirituality.net for posts on why cluster bombs should be banned, action that we can take, and a prayer.
Vale Blazie Dog
I have held my grief privately. It is a disturbing, embarrassing, unseemly grief. One which feels inappropriate in my current context. And yet it is so. I’m heartbroken that my little dog has passed on and I wasn’t able to be there with him and my husband. Blaze had cancer and had reached a point where he was in significant pain. It was time for us to let him go. But I was unable to make that last trip to the vet with Blaze and Geoff because I am in Kuala Lumpur. Blaze ate more regularly than many of the people served… Read More »Vale Blazie Dog
Remembering the dead – or why I hate Halloween
I’m not the only one who gets annoyed at the way in which so many traditional celebrations are now crassly commercialised, or at the general coca colonialisation of Australian culture. Not that I am a traditionalist, wanting to freeze frame life “back in the day”. Cultures are dynamic, living things, and in fact I work for social transformation. I acknowledge that feeling miffed at the paganisation of Christian feasts is somewhat ironic – the way in which ‘Christmas’ is treated in popular culture could be seen as fair return for the Christian appropriation of the pagan spring festival at Easter. Yet… Read More »Remembering the dead – or why I hate Halloween
Show Me the Money! an end of financial year reflection …
The end of the financial year is upon us, focusing our minds on concepts like ‘balancing’, ‘reconciling’, ‘statements’ and ‘outcomes’. How differently these same words resonate in the context of efforts to foster the social mission of the church! Yet they are, or should be, of a piece. The budgets and balance sheets of any church organisation are in fact mission documents. Our strategic plans might articulate espoused priorities but our budgets show where we really intend to place our resources. Our actuals tell us what we actually value. How did we use our assets this year? Which areas did… Read More »Show Me the Money! an end of financial year reflection …
Ethics, Wealth & Some Thoughts from St Ignatius
This is the text of a talk that I gave at the Newport Arms for Spirituality in the Pub. It reflects on how we acquire and use ‘treasure’ and the place it occupies in our lives. EthicsWealth&SomeThoughtsFromIgnatius