Welcome to the ‘Third-Draw-Down’.
Dig around, you never know what you might find back here.
2009 | Nov 14
Chasing after the Wind
“Chasing after the Wind
In the armpit of a tree
between striking chords of grass
everything chasing
nothing
everybody chasing
breaking ...”
| Oct 15
The Dude Abides
1 comments
12
Review: Wolf Hall
8 comments
02
Writing, Essays, Love. Part II
5 comments
Writing, Love, Essays. Part 1
4 comments
| Sep 09
Review: Shenkin Cafe
“In an ideal world the Australian Federal Government would establish a system similar to Medicare ...”
| Aug 31 24
Murray Bail - The Pages
3 comments
20
Gentlemen Broncos
“Jared Hess (Napoleon from Napoleon Dynamite) has a new movie coming out: Gentlemen Broncos. If ...”
18
Australia - whose land? (part 2)
1 comments
17 13
Stephen Edgar: Memorial
2 comments
12
Les Murray, Stephen Edgar
“How often do you get the opportunity to walk up to the author of some ...”
11
Back on the Street
“I was talking with Emma and my brother on the weekend (we were in Brisbane ...”
2 comments
Moore Wizardry
“At College Chapel this Friday we are having a Communion Service following the 1662 Book ...”
8 comments | Jul 28
This is not a Tuna
4 comments
26
The Socratic Method, Part 2
“What happens if you answer the question?
There is an interesting little dynamic created within the ...”
3 comments 22
An important Clarification...
“It has come to my attention that some people may have been misled into thinking ...”
1 comments 21
The Socratic Method, Part 1
5 comments
12 | Jun | May 30 20 16
On Weariness
1 comments
07
29 years, 373 days...
“Pains tend to run much more deeply into us than our pleasures. A true pain ...”
1 comments 04
Things You should know about Knowing. Part 2
3 comments
02
An Impeccably Renovated Terrace
2 comments
| Apr 27 25 16
Things You should know about Knowing. Part 1
2 comments
11 07
Nice One Karl!
1 comments
06
Mission Diary
“Here are links to a series of reflections I've posted during Moore College Mission 2009:
Sunday: ...”
Mission Men/Women
7 comments
04 03 02 01 | Mar 31
Jesus is the Problem to our Solution
3 comments
30
To change a life
“This week I'm away on mission in Springwood. The best thing about Mission is getting ...”
24 23
Ethical Ladders and Idolatry
“How do you apply acid to a moral system or teacher of morality? How do ...”
16 06
Thoughts on Suffering and Hope
“1. Christians are saved into suffering - to be Christian is to put on Christ ...”
04
Hair
1 comments
| Feb 27 25
Good Laws
5 comments
13
$42 Billion Dollars for Real Aussie Battlers
1 comments
09
Review: Resurrection and Moral Order
2 comments
03 | Jan 31 28
Jerusalem and Athens
“Whence spring those “fables and endless genealogies,†and “unprofitable questions,†and “words which spread like ...”
14
What's been going on...
2 comments
13 | |
2008 | Dec | Nov | Oct 30 29
Genes and Justice
“Last night I went along to an interesting discussion at the Philo Agora philosophy discussion ...”
24
Why we wrestle with Philosophers
“The concluding section of McGrath's critique of Heidegger reads like my own testimony in the ...”
23
Re: Dinner Options
“A poem on being asked to dinner with friends maunderingly entitled:
A Paean of Joy somewhat ...”
20
Hope Street
2 comments
16
I Love Anglicanism (a bit)!
“I'm not always very positive about living in Sydney or about the Anglican Church but ...”
1 comments 14
Beginning with Gender
“Why is most conservative theology of Gender carried out only with reference to the Doctrine ...”
13 10
Thoughts on the Financial Crisis
“1. Evangelical Christians seem very quiet about it (except wannabe Marxists who just say, 'we ...”
4 comments 09 08
Porous, Buffered, Ecological, ?
“One of our lecturers earlier in the week alluded to the shift in an individual's ...”
2 comments 07
Father Brown
4 comments
03
Heidegger, Anticipation, and authentic Discipleship
“To anticipate is to project oneself upon a possibility in such a way as to ...”
2 comments 02 01 | Sep 30 29
Learning Voodoo
“We've just had a full day intensive on Educational Theory as part of our Congregational ...”
7 comments 22
Surfing for Australia
“Emma booked us in for some surfing lessons this morning. We were picked up at ...”
17
Wing and a Prayer
“We're on holidays in Byron Bay! A poetical destination - quite a lot of the ...”
2 comments | Aug 27
The Bradman of History or The Don of Faith?
1 comments
13
Dripping with Fat
2 comments
12 11
To put up and shut up?
“Some friends and I recently worked through Natural Theology, a book that binds together two ...”
08
Moore Confession
“We are always and endlessly fascinated with knowing the truth about ourselves.
I've been attending ...”
| Jul 31
A Pastor’s Legacies
“Thomas Brooks (1608-1680) preached this sermon on his last Sunday before being ejected from the ...”
30
communion and doctrine
“ a diligent endeavor to have the power of the truths professed and contended for ...”
Conversation: the point of things
“Creak your armchair over to mine for a moment, we’re going to have a conversation.
I’m ...”
2 comments 10
A mechanism for fixing the Anglican Communion
“From an article by Matt Kennedy on Stand Firm.
Who said Evangelicals aren't funny?
Bishop Wright is ...”
Viva la Vida
“I'm listening to Coldplay's new album Viva la Vida. I think it's probably their best ...”
04
Ethics and Friendship
6 comments
| Jun 18
Consequential Ethics
2 comments
17
further:more
“Something is seriously messed up when I walk out of Thai La-Ong Restaurant onto King ...”
13
Pyrrho the Sceptic
1 comments
12
relative courage
““Few things are more striking than the change which has taken place during my own ...”
Urban Hymns - Rainy Morning in the City
“I can’t hear myself.
Clouds crowd the top of the buildings.
Red hair a flare down the ...”
10
further:more
4 comments
04 03
furthermore:
2 comments
| May | Apr 03
The South African Edge
“There's this dimension to Church and life in South Africa that I've been trying to ...”
1 comments
Church on the Ridge
“Church on the Ridge (COTR) is a church-plant gettting into its 3rd year here in ...”
2 comments 02
Hadedas and Rugby
“We were woken by the sound of birds, a very sweet sound to those who ...”
01
Getting There
“Well, we are now broadcasting live from South Africa.
As you can see we have internet ...”
| Mar 21
The Christ Files
“We just finished watching The Christ Files with people from Church.
Historian Dr John Dickson sets ...”
4 comments 20
Faith seeking understanding
2 comments
19 18
Soda-water, Unitarianism, and Australia
2 comments
16
Geocaching around Crows Nest, Manly, Dee Why
“Emma and I did some more geocaching around Sydney with Russ and Naomi yesterday. Russ ...”
3 comments
Total Depravity
“I love listening to John Piper preach - the guy is completely off the leash. ...”
12
Propositional Revelation
5 comments
11
Geocaching in Manly
“On the weekend Anthea came up from Canberra and stayed over with us on Saturday ...”
6 comments
Immanentism
“"If there is an intellectual direction in the culture that has developed over the last ...”
4 comments 08
Dear Baby Jesus
“We watched Talladega Nights last week.
It's not exactly high-brow comedy, but at the end ...”
05 04
Reading with Zwingli
6 comments
03 | Feb 29
An Open Letter of Welcome to All The Peoples of the Future
“Hello, people of the future.
Thanks for dropping in.
Apologies for our antiquated interests and modes of ...”
2 comments 28 06
Desire and Friendship
4 comments
05
Neighbours
3 comments
| Jan |
2007 | Dec | Oct 25
Limitations and Questions
1 comments
24 22
What is a Virtue?
1 comments
18
Virtue and Values III
3 comments
16
Virtue and Values II
4 comments
15 | Aug 23
Friends II - In Memoriam
1 comments
22
Friendship I - Apology and Confession
4 comments
20 12 09
Zeno II - The impossibility of Turtle Racing
4 comments
07
Zeno I - The Other Mutant Ninja Turtle...
3 comments
04
Graven Images
2 comments
| Jul 30
Landscaping and Shaping
2 comments
26
Landscaping
1 comments
25
Cinema and Seeing
1 comments
24 04 03
A Prayer to be filled with the Holy Spirit
8 comments
| Jun 28
Basilius Caesarius: Bishop
4 comments
27
Basilius Caesarius: Monkeying Around
1 comments
26
Researching Basil
3 comments
15
Last Week: Gender
1 comments
08 07
Prophetic Dress Code
2 comments
05
Foucault, Christians and Sex
3 comments
04
Foucault: Confession
4 comments
| May 31
History of Sexuality
4 comments
30
Wilberforce - the Movie
3 comments
28
Wilberforce - Politics
2 comments
26
Wild Greeks
3 comments
22
Wilberforce - The Wonder Years
3 comments
21 19
City Soul
2 comments
City Light
1 comments
17
Studying Hebrew
2 comments
15
Mission Vid
“Here is a video from our recent college mission to West Lindfield. It's part of ...”
Aboriginal Islam
5 comments
11 10
Discussing Death
2 comments
09
Elephant Boy Cafe
2 comments
08 02
Sex and Death
4 comments
Live from West Lindfield
“This week is Moore College mission. The students from the College head out to work ...”
| Apr 29
On Loving Philosophy
2 comments
27
Australian Values
“Here is a proposal for a large scale investigation which I don't have the time ...”
4 comments 26 25
Lest we forget
2 comments
24
Update
“Emma's off to her Tuesday night Diploma of Biblical Studies Course. I'm stuck at college ...”
20
Anna's Creed
“Anna has started a really interesting discussion on Creeds.
What would you include in a ...”
12 11
Studying Mark
“Well, there's been a bit of a hiatus here for the past week. I've been ...”
04
The Tragedie of King Lear
1 comments
02
Starting a Declaration
“Then Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus and said: “Men of Athens! I ...”
2 comments | Mar 29
Death
2 comments
What's going on...
“What's been going on with us?
Emma finished up at her old work place and is ...”
28
On Knowledge and Faith
3 comments
26
Sermon Outline: The Vandalised Creation
“Following on from my last post. Here's an outline from my sermon on Sunday.
I ...”
22
Preaching from the right Question...
2 comments
21
Mac Apps for Theological Students
6 comments
20 19
Graduation Night
“Tonight Emma and I have been out at the Moore College Graduation ceremony. All students ...”
15
On what we don't know... (I)
4 comments
More Dawkins
“On the topic of Dawkins, check out this very funny parable.
Does Richard Dawkins Exist?
”
14
Dawkins: The God Delusion
“Richard Dawkins really is a Dork.
Normally I would recommend Christians engage and seek to understand ...”
7 comments
In the News
1 comments
13
On Non-Christians and the Existence of God
2 comments
12 08 07
Emma's New Job
2 comments
06
Knowledge and Testimony
3 comments
05
Last Weekend
“Happy Engagement Michael and Trish!!
On Friday night Emma and I travelled down to Canberra for ...”
13 comments
Server Issues
“I managed to completely delete this blog and make a huge mess on my server ...”
01
On Knowing
2 comments
| Feb 28
Community of Learning
2 comments
27
On Language
2 comments
26 20
Knowing God - beginning
“Q: Where do we begin with knowing God?
A: humbly, asking him for this grace, using ...”
On Sundays
“The creation account, however, does not conclude with man and his mandate, for man is ...”
16
Off for the Weekend
“Emma and I have our 2nd Wedding anniversary on Monday. We're off for a weekend ...”
14 13
Covered with Shame
2 comments
12 07
Homage to an Escalator
“I'm currently heading over to Newtown at about 7:30 in the morning. I catch the ...”
06
On Power and Weakness
“How do we reconcile our powerfulness with our knowledge that for the sake of his ...”
2 comments 05
First Day at School!
1 comments
02
Approached by God (VI) - What to Pray?
“Apart from telling us not to babble on in prayer, Matthew 6:7-13 also teaches us ...”
| Jan 31
Approached by God (V) - The Words of Prayer
“When we meet together to pray, it’s easy to feel inadequate or not eloquent enough ...”
30
Approached by God (IV) - who leads in prayer?
“Romans 3:10-12 sets out God’s indictment against us with blushing starkness.
“There is no one righteous, ...”
29
Approached by God (III) - Prayer starts with God
“A character in a novel I was recently reading claimed that St Augustine was the ...”
28
Approached by God (II) - Prayin' like a Pagan
“So Ahab summoned all the Israelites and gathered the prophets at Mount Carmel. Then ...”
3 comments 27
Approached by God (I) - The Pressure to Pray
“I've been asked to put some thoughts together for an article on prayer to go ...”
19
a new year, a new home, a new city
“Welcome back to The Andersonpost...
It’s been over 2 months since I last posted on this ...”
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2006 | Nov | Oct 24
The Beginning of Saying Goodbye
“Looking back over the last few posts you'd be forgiven for thinking that there was ...”
16
Grace and Work
“Here's something a little bit different. I'm writing this blog from Starbucks in Circular Quay, ...”
| Sep 26
The Big News
“It's been close to a month since my last post! Aaaargh...There is so much to ...”
25
The Doing of God
“The last time I wrote was in the final week of last term at Uni. ...”
| Aug 28
Lookin' to Jesus
“It's been a little while since I posted - I've been feeling a little like ...”
11
The Complete Christian
“Some weeks you can be a sight-seer on the everyday rails of work and life. ...”
04
FOCUS Mission Week
“This past week was a mission week for FOCUS at the University of Canberra. FOCUS ...”
| Jul 28
A normal week (for once)
“As could be expected, the first week back for the Uni semester was a little ...”
24
Eulogy
“If you are interested in reading a little of the life story of an amazing ...”
17
Passing away of Grandma Joy
“"Because I do not hope to turn again"... that's the first line of T.S. Eliot's ...”
10
A Focal Point Moment
“This is a live, on the spot report from Focal Point 2006. I'm not online ...”
03
Preaching through 2 Peter
“The past few weeks have been dominated by the preparation each week for the sermon ...”
| Jun 19
AFES Staff Conference
“After coming home from Victoria full to the brim with refreshment, we had the normal ...”
12
Victorian Adventures
“End of Term:The end of Semester at Uni seemed to come on us very quickly. ...”
| May 25
Seek the Truth - the Da Vinci Code
“Well, I thought I was all done with talks for a while, but it's never ...”
18
Final Day
“Today marks the final day in the series of talks on Matthew that I've been ...”
| Apr 30
FOCUS Talks
“I haven't had a great deal of time to update this blog recently and again, ...”
11
Wright on the Road
“I was in Sydney last night for an AFES board meeting. I had a great ...”
09
Mission
“Last week was the FOCUS/SMBC mission week. A team of students from the Sydney Missionary ...”
03
Labor that Lasts
“Sorry, I'm really sorry.It's been over 2 weeks since I last wrote. I can accept ...”
Getaway
“I'm writing this post about Getaway about 2 weeks after it happened - which is ...”
| Mar 16
Settling into the Rhythm
“Sometimes I'm amazed at how quickly time moves past us. It's been 10 days since ...”
05
Ad-Ministry Blues
“Things have finally settled down into what will most likely be my routine for the ...”
| Feb 22
1st FOCUS Bible Talk for the year
“Praise God for a fantastic Day!Today was the first proper FOCUS meeting for the year. ...”
17
Light Shining
“Gaaarrh, (the sound of me coming up for air)...O-Week is over! The uni year is ...”
09
Dis-Orientations
“Last night around 10pm found Emma and I making our way through the security apparatus ...”
| Jan 30
Kick Off
“It's been a little while since I've been available to keep the weblog up-to-date. The ...”
16
The planning season
“This week really sees the commencement of the crazy season in student ministry. It's still ...”
09
Happy New Year
“Welcome to 2006!Emma and I are now both back at work after a bus, and ...”
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2005 | Dec 20
Welcome to our New Website
“The website is now up and close to fully operational. Most of the key features ...”
14
NTE & mission
“NTEFor the past 2 weeks I've been involved with the AFES National Training Event in ...”
01
Newsletter 1
“Welcome to our blog! We pray that this finds you well and growing in knowledge ...”
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