Article 8
I am listening to Radio Zimbabwe and pple are phoning in telling stories about Church that has instructed its members to sell TVs, RADIOS, Phones and their children no longer attend schools, parents...
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Kaiser Wilhelm – my favourite church
It is difficult to capture the sense of sitting in this church, in a half light permeating from blue glass in every direction. I find it quieting and awe-inspiring.
View ArticleExperience, Tradition and Conversation
On my recent travels I had lunch with a chaplaincy colleague at the Imperial College, London. He is Anglican and works openly with colleagues from other faiths. Today I was reading a post about...
View ArticleApproach to Dialogue
I thought this insight from a paper by Sandra Schneiders was helpful: Paul Lakeland, in his very enlightening work on postmodernism, makes an important suggestion about how a Christian believer might...
View ArticleRadical Hope
There is a story told in a book by Jonathan Lear entitled Radical Hope, a reflection on the life and destiny of Plenty Coups, the last great chief of the Crow nation of Native Americans, a people whose...
View ArticleFlinders NAIDOC Week Address
Last Friday night I joined about 60 students at Flinders University Hall for dinner. There were two highlights – a film made for the occasion by a group of Aboriginal students that documented aspects...
View ArticleAddress: Memorial Service for Families and Friends of Bodies Donated to...
For the last seventeen years, at the start of each academic year, the three universities in Adelaide conduct a combined memorial service for the families and friends of those who have bequeathed their...
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Flinders Yunggorendi
I didn’t realize, until it was pointed out to me, that the Flinders University logo is problematic among the Aboriginal community. It’s the image of the sailing ship, of course, and all that symbol...
View ArticleExpanding Faith
In the Stephen Hawking film, ‘The Theory of Everything’, the tension between him and his first wife Jane, between her Christian, Church of England faith and his resistance to any notion of a higher...
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Out of the mouths of babes…
You may have seen the video of the little boy with his father, trying to make sense of the massacre in Paris last week. “The flowers and the candles, … they’re there to protect us,” he concludes....
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Easter message from Jerusalem
Screenshot of message from Jerusalem Screenshot Heads of Churches Jerusalem
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A One and Different World
On the Sunday before I was to meet with the Vice-Chancellor, Christians across the world were reflecting on the Biblical story we call ‘The Temptations of Jesus’. Before beginning the ministry that...
View ArticleA Lesson in Hospitality
I really enjoyed this extraordinary film: Florence Foster Jenkins (Trailer 2016). In many ways it is a story of true hospitality – the creation, and in this case, the maintenance, of space for the...
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Good News from Syria?
Posted on August 24, 2016 by Phil Tanis http://wcrc.ch/news/syrian-christians-create-space-for-hope In war-torn Syria, hope is fading for many. After five years of civil war, there are few who have...
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Organisation for Wellness
On the evening of Thursday February 16, I presented a one hour workshop to the Urban Mission Network of the Uniting Church at their invitation, introducing an awareness of the work of Frederic Laloux....
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Oasis in the City?
I keep running into people who have ideas for human flourishing that seem to be obstructed because the vision they want to contribute is not valued by the institutions in which they work. Does that...
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Some responses to ‘Oasis in the City’
Ideas like Oasis in the City require a long gestation, but it has been good to get some feedback so soon after putting it out there. It took nearly twenty years to get Oasis at Flinders to where it...
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Harmony
Happy Hearts Hub organised a lovely Harmony Day event last Sunday afternoon. It was great to sit around and meet people of all ages and backgrounds, sharing our stories and passion for multicultural...
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Oasis in the City – Update
It is always difficult to introduce new ideas that necessarily involve creating new structures across existing organisations. However, conversations I have had with various people about the idea of...
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