Lately, I have been reflecting on the balance between being ‘in the moment’ and seeing the bigger picture. In the book, ‘7 Habits of Highly Effective People’, Covey  gives the example of a tree lopper who is totally focused on how to cut down a tree - how to do it...

Like many of you, I suspect, I watched with interest the opening of the Commonwealth Games on Wednesday night. Ratings suggest that 2.742 million Australians tuned in & I heard the number of 1.6 billion worldwide mentioned a few times during the coverage. I also...

Grace or Consequences… the paradox of ball tampering… Even those who profess not to be sports lovers have been following the events of the last week involving our national cricket team and their on-field indiscretions… I’m sure the healthy contingent of South Africans...

Q: How many Anglicans does it take to change a lightbulb? A: Change a lightbulb? Why? My grandmother gave the church that lightbulb! There are so many jokes about a Christian’s reluctance to change --and I’m not just picking on Anglicans. There are similar jokes...

One of the more uncomfortable things to look at, as we head to Easter, is sin. But something I have learned over the years is that the more you understand sin, the more the sacrifice that was made on the cross will move you – and the more you understand what Easter is...

I will often joke that the unrecorded 11th Commandment was: “Thou shalt not committee” but I have found in my time as a priest responsible for the running of Parish Council meetings, that those who are elected &/or appointed to this important role are generally worth...