Joan Bielski (letters April 21st) may have stumbled onto a key issue in the debate over SRE lessons. When she cavalierly dismisses many Christian SRE lessons as ‘amateurish’ she is simply stating a fact – the teachers are amateurs. One wonders if the government is going to pay for the training of Ethics teachers or if they are going to ask current School teachers to do this job – not really fair either way. However, if they ask parents and other volunteers to join in (as for SRE) then after the launch hype has died down (in a year or two) I can hardly imagine kindies skipping home gleefully on a Friday arvo saying, “Yeah, we drew a picture of an ethic again today.”
John Smuts, Lewisham
Showing posts with label SMH. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SMH. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
SRE & Ethics
I wrote this letter to the SMH today. Let's see if it gets published!
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
The Church & Money
As we have seen in Malachi God's people have always had an uneasy relationship with money.
The article in the SMH today simply highlights it again.
As usual it is not hard to detect some media bias. The Rev. John Cornish was clearly interviewed simply to put pressure on Peter Jensen. It is easy to imagine a reporter sitting at his desk trying to come up with another 'angle' on the current recession ... "ummh, something about Sydney Anglicans being evil always stirs the pot a bit..."
Nevertheless it does make us think. Again.
Was the Anglican Church wise or foolish to play the stockmarket like this? Personally I think that the answer to that question is ... neither. The least the third servant (in that famous parable) could have done is put his Master's money on deposit in order to collect interest. Sydney Anglicans have been very creative in the past few decades in finding ways to see God's kingdom grow. They are to be applauded for their initiative and courage. On the other hand all of this reminds us that money and influence do not grow the kingdom, God does by his Spirit. The $100 million loss should remind us of that.
God has been humbling the Western world through the recession. That includes His Church by the way.
The article in the SMH today simply highlights it again.
As usual it is not hard to detect some media bias. The Rev. John Cornish was clearly interviewed simply to put pressure on Peter Jensen. It is easy to imagine a reporter sitting at his desk trying to come up with another 'angle' on the current recession ... "ummh, something about Sydney Anglicans being evil always stirs the pot a bit..."
Nevertheless it does make us think. Again.
Was the Anglican Church wise or foolish to play the stockmarket like this? Personally I think that the answer to that question is ... neither. The least the third servant (in that famous parable) could have done is put his Master's money on deposit in order to collect interest. Sydney Anglicans have been very creative in the past few decades in finding ways to see God's kingdom grow. They are to be applauded for their initiative and courage. On the other hand all of this reminds us that money and influence do not grow the kingdom, God does by his Spirit. The $100 million loss should remind us of that.
God has been humbling the Western world through the recession. That includes His Church by the way.
Monday, July 14, 2008
Paint them Ugly
Those who were at PBCam on Sunday will be interested in the following article in the SMH. It is all about parenting and is very relevant to the theme of Sunday's sermon.
Paint them ugly
Paint them ugly
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