I’m sure that you, like me, have realised that it is relatively easy to offend people these days. It doesn’t take much. You don’t even have to try. From the greasy glare of someone who is convinced that you were attempting to run them off the road on the way to work, to the nasty abuse and cursing to which a young mother was subjected at a local bank branch I was visiting this week – because one of her kids was…
Dr Cody stunned the panel with her unblinking insistence. The great irony in all of this from Ms Gillard to Dr Cody is that it is women at the highest levels of national administration who are creating the worst of misogynistic outcomes in law – and everyday women and girls are losing rights whilst biological men who want to identify as women are benefiting.
We CANNOT sit around and lament the rise of evil in our society as we are seeing, especially when we are partly to blame. We’ve almost lost our saltiness … As I have said many times before in these pages, the people of God need to mobilise and intercede like never before. The only difference is that now it is more urgent than ever before.
Competition, not cooperation. Hierarchy and control, instead of equality and mutuality - a far cry from the holy function of the image of God in both women and men. The great overarching salvation narrative of the scriptures details God’s loving determination to restore the function of His image in human beings.
Recently I had a phone call from a distressed woman who is in a psychiatric ward. She was desperate. Very frightened, and very, very alone. She was sobbing her heart out. Her family (her own adult kids) had put her there, because she is too much of a responsibility for them when she is out of care. She does have…
The word used for “remembrance” here by Luke, is anamnēsis [ἀνάμνησις] which is a bit more than remembering a past event like a birthday. Anamnēsis means to bring to mind and recollect and enter into the power of the historical event which has eternal force and, at the same time, experience its enduring power.
He finished his coffee, and then Mr Pashalis walked down his driveway and came to where I was sitting. He gazed at me silently. I gazed back with an awkward smile and extended my hand in greeting. He did the same. And he held my hand in a warm and firm handshake. As he looked at me I saw his eyes brimming with tears.
Our freedom of speech and freedom of religious expression – basic human rights, which are NOT explicitly enshrined in the Australian Constitution, by the way – are being systematically and systemically eroded by government. This is not conspiracy theory paranoia – it is happening democratic systems.
