I'm on holiday – today I decided to make Lilly Pilly sorbet, and it was delicious (and super pink!) https://grahame.theol.au/posts/lilly-pilly-sorbet/ #bushfood #foraging #nativefood

Christians in #Perth – on Palm Sunday there's an ecumenical gathering to pray for peace. 2.30pm at St George's Cathedral. I can't think of anything more appropriate to do on that day in 2025: please come along if you are able.

My Sunday sermon, on the call of Jesus to love, even when we are hurt, or hated, or rejected, a call that Jesus himself embodied, disclosing most profoundly who God is.

https://grahame.theol.au/posts/epiphany-7-2025/

Worth a watch given goings on – the 2022 Bampton lectures given by the notable Church historian Alec Ryrie, on how 'Western culture has come to define its values not by Christianity, but by the narrative of the Second World War' – and how this is now unraveling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaFYZvdFi7s&list=PLWCAltzb4KrORSI9r8KLs8AIlWEPNyryI

Here's my review of 'Conclave', which I very much enjoyed. For me at least the film is a letter of love and hope directed to the Church, offering challenge paired with encouragement. Ralph Fiennes is incredible, and so is Isabella Rossellini.

https://grahame.theol.au/posts/film-review-conclave/

#anglican #episcopal #progressiveclergy

@david_coombe_cbr thanks David

my sermon for today – on the forces that push us apart, and how we might instead embrace what Jesus offers us – release from captivity, the true unity of the Body.

https://grahame.theol.au/posts/epiphany-3-2025/

#anglican #episcopal #progressiveclergy

First meeting this evening of what I hope and pray will become the parish youth group.

Explored Gen 2-3 (Eve and Adam and God) drawing on Dr Linn Tonstad’s famous paper reading it as a theological exploration of adolescence, and then we watched the movie Barbie together. Fab!

#progressiveclergy #anglican #episcopal

For the 4th year in a row, my all-sky camera has been taking an image of the sky above the Netherlands every 15 seconds. Combining these images reveal the length of the night changing throughout the year, the passage of clouds and the motion of the Moon and the Sun through the sky. #astrophotography

Hugh O’Flaherty, from Lisrobin, Kiskeam, County Cork, was ordained on 20th December 1925 and posted to the Vatican. Early in the war he visited POW camps and then used Radio Vatican to pass on word of prisoners to their relatives. When Germany occupied Rome in 1943, O’Flaherty and some like-minded friends hid Jews and Allied soldiers from the Nazis. 1/2

#HughOFlaherty #Ireland #IrishHistory #Holocaust #Cork #Rome #Vatican

This is my number one lifehack for #liturgy. Microsoft products reliably do the worst possible thing when you copy rich media from one application to another. Copying text from one format of liturgy to another? Hey, I'll automatically give you a weird mix of both formats! You chose 'keep text only': I'll insert fifty-seven blanks lines and some indents between every paragraph!

This runs in the background, automatically forcing the paste buffer to be plain text only. And then (mostly) everything works much nicer.

Totally unhelpful if you're copying and pasting images though 😄

#progressiveclergy #progressivechristian

interesting and quite funny discussion featuring Perth local Robert J. Myles, pulling apart Jordan Peterson's 'We Who Wrestle With God' https://youtu.be/xjh7zOdAcXs?list=PL_crnbxhv0YBpqJRui0Em1PHyL6UE7F7i&t=2844

This Sunday's sermon: on the strange, miraculous exodus to hope, and how we bring it to life each time we come to Holy Communion #hope25 https://grahame.theol.au/posts/pentecost-nine/

the temperature this evening is #cats #🥶

I’m reading about the transmission of what would become the New Testament in the early church and I’m struck by the parallels with the transmission of software in early computing (through the mid-to-late 70s, and continued by free software folks.) Not that they’re the same thing, the commonality is perhaps the abundant potential of a new medium being overtaken by the impulse to scarcity.

@gazmeister thanks, good point - and thank you for the work you did editing, I really appreciated your comments on my sermon

a Christian resource for #TheVoice – the Uniting Church have pulled together an ecumenical anthology of sermons from First Nations and settler perspectives. check it out here: https://www.socialresponsibilities.perth.anglican.org/2023/09/preaching-from-the-heart/ #theology #auspol #yes23

#Barbie: A Theological Reflection – exploring how the film is in dialogue with the Biblical tradition, and with the last fifty-odd years of feminist #theology https://grahame.theol.au/posts/barbie-reflection/

for those of us who watch / mirror various #CKAN datasets, here's a new command line tool to make it easier https://github.com/grahame/ckanmirror

(developed for a neat little spare-time data trend project I'm working on)

@halfchickenchips yeah, I think the idea is that the liturgical psalter has a bit of cadence and sounds good, whereas the NRSV translation of the psalms might be more literally accurate but loses the poetry :)