Guest post – International Womens Day 2008 by Fiona Noble

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY MARCH 8, 2008
To Everything, Turn, Turn, Turn…
There Is A Season, Turn, [...]

The Progressive Spirituality movement.

This post was inspired by the recent ABC Compass program on the Uniting Church in Australia, “The Uniting Church” highlighting a divergence of opinion within the church between conservative Christian traditionalists and a new movement emerging called “progressive spirituality” (P.S.).  P.S. is challenging traditional Christianity at its core by questioning key doctrinal concepts such as the [...]

Political addiction and the 2007 election ( Revenge of the Pseph)

“Well may you say God Save the Queen, but nothing will save the governor General”

I just had to say that on remembrance day. Every time I visit Canberra I have to stand at the front of the old parliament house and recite this mantra. Today is a holy day for political junkies.
I find election night [...]

Hearts and minds

As readers may know I am an occaisional writer for the greenish leaning “Dead Roo” blog. I have also begun writing for  “Leftrights”, a leftish leaning blog.
My first post on Leftwrites is entitled “The Eurocentrism of Australian Socialism”
Here is my most recent comment on that discussion……
The point of real connection with Aboriginal Australia is [...]

Doing battle with the devil – what? Has he gone crazy and turned Christian or something?

DANGER – The devil lurks amongst us trying to convince us of our own illusions.
Ommmmmmmmmm 
I may have gone crazy but I have not turned Christian.   I am just enjoying the license to be idiosyncratic which is the privilege of a blogger.   If you read beyond the post titles on the following 3 bible studies published [...]

Sunday Sermon – Jesus in the wilderness

If you are not a christian or a bible student then the  link at the end of this post ”Led by the Spirit into the wilderness” is probably not for you.  It is by U.S. theologian Ched Myers, reflecting on his time spent with Aboriginal christians in North East Victoria and the bible story of Jesus’ sojourn into the [...]

Fire and Brimstone; A sermon on the problem of sin

                                                                   What is “sin” or “evil”? Let’s start with the bible to see what it says. Genesis 2.16 ‘And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:17But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the [...]

Jesus is an Aborigine!

The following is my 10 cents worth that I posted on the Christian Anarchist website “Jesus Radicals”  http://www.jesusradicals.com/ .  They have a forum on indigenous issues  http://forums.jesusradicals.com/viewforum.php?f=16
The first thing to realise in any discussion about Jesus and indigenous people is that Jesus himself was an indigenous person. The very first chapter of the new Testamant – Mat [...]

The First Post – economy and consciousness

(image “INFRASTRUCTURE ” by John Tracey)
Welcome to the first post of Paradigm Oz.
by John Tracey – the editor
Paradigm
“ a typical example or pattern of something; a model” or ” a worldview underlying the theories and methodology of a particular scientific subject”
Oz 
“Australian” or “representing a pronunciation of an abbreviation of Australia”
Over the last 200 years [...]