Gordon's blog

The Dalai Lama is going to be in Canberra soon. We received an email suggesting we might be interested in going, and I passed that on to a range of people. One of them emailed back saying that I needed to be truer to the Word of God - that the Dalai Lama "may be a good man but he stands for everything that my Christian faith says is unacceptable".

This very real story seems to be a living expression of the Acts passage for May 6 - the sheet of food dropping from the roof that Peter sees in his vision.

I think we've been sidetracked around Easter. I reckon that Mel Gibson's movie was an exaggerated form, but just made the sidetracking clear. I wonder if we can celebrate Easter without indulging in voyeuristic violence.

Lent often seems to be used as a time for personal reflection, about personal repentence, about personal devotion and piety. What if it got opened up into a "wider" concept. Luke's readings seem to do this pretty well.

We're going to be doing some playing with the idea of Lent being a "journey into the unknown" with each week being about a journey beyond something.

Lent 1: Beyond the blockages of life
Lent 2: Beyond political power towards God's companionship [PDF postcard]