In my last blog post, I wrote that I would be volunteering with Vine Church Surry Hills during the 2023 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade, then attending the St James’ Institute Public Lecture: Unashamedly Gay, Unashamedly Christian the day after. When I first came across Vine Church in…

Earlier this week I blogged the following: “I go to Solemn High Mass (almost) every Sunday at Christ Church St Laurence, Railway Square in Sydney. It is an Anglican parish of the Anglo-catholic tradition. On the Sunday that just past, after Mass, I picked up a copy of the February-March…

I go to Solemn High Mass (almost) every Sunday at Christ Church St Laurence, Railway Square in Sydney. It is an Anglican parish of the Anglo-catholic tradition. On the Sunday that just past, after Mass, I picked up a copy of the February-March 2023 edition of Southern Cross, the news…

“God is an infinite sphere, the center of which is everywhere, the circumference nowhere.” — Hermes Trismegistus? I listened to The Bible in a Year podcast Days 5 onwards, but not the Days covering Joseph (Genesis). I read Max Lucado’s You’ll Get Through This: Hope and Help for Your Turbulent…

“Human history is the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.” — CS Lewis Here are my Bible in a Year notes on podcast Days 3–4: Genesis 5 walks us through Noah’s genealogy, which will come across as fanciful to…

“Eve was not taken out of Adam’s head to top him, neither out of his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected by him, and near his heart to be loved by him.” …

I recently submitted this research paper to my university. Feedback from my assessor are in italics and brackets: A pastoral response in any situation would be based on Psalm 78:52, that is, a response that is figuratively shepherding the flock, or leading the sheep through the world. In order to…

I recently submitted this thematic scripture study to my university. Feedback from my assessor are in italics and brackets: Leviticus 18:22 states that it is an abomination for a man to lie with another man as he would with a woman. We know that the man in “a man to…

I recently submitted this major essay to my university. Feedback from my assessor are in italics and brackets: Gender detransition is a real-life moral issue. This essay will initially define gender detransition, and provide associated definitions for context. This essay will then explore related Scriptures, Catholic Tradition and contemporary Magisterium…