Hans Kung, Judaism: the religious situation of our time. London: SCM Press, 1992. pp 319 – 347 Kung in these two chapters is attempting to place Jesus in his Jewish context. He notes the following key points: Jesus was not a man of the Jewish establishment Jesus is no preacher of violence Jesus was not [...]

I went on a lovely hike over the weekend. A friend and I hiked down at Wilsons Prom and visited the lighthouse. What struck me about the weekend, other than the obvious beauty of the surrounds, was the local wildlife. Whilst sitting down and preparing dinner I happened to get the fright of my life. [...]

Last night Wayne Swan delivered his second budget. Now I don’t want to comment specifically on the details of that budget, but it would be remiss of me not to take the opportunity to remain topical. I believe that one of the many (and perhaps main) roles of Government is to provide for the disadvantaged [...]

I have just finished preparing a part of tomorrow nights dinner (am I organised or what?) and while doing that I was pondering how food tells us a lot about a culture. For lunch today I had a beautiful kebab (Turkey), my preparation was getting together the marinade for Tandoori Chicken (India) and tonight I [...]

I have to admit that the inspiration for this post came after reading Gen’s post over at the JustSalvos blog. Twice in the last week I have seen people wearing a ‘uniform’ for a cultural event. At Sensation (a dance party at Telstradome on NYE) there was some 40,000 people all dressed in white dancing [...]