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Thursday, August 17, 2006

"The Most Trusted Name in Fake News"

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Hands down the best thing on television at the moment is The Daily Show . Jon Stewart is a comic genius who is also an intellectual and le...
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An Argument for the Education of Clergy

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Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Darfur Genocide

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I am posting these eloquent words from one of my students, Megan Orrin , echoing her concerns and joining with those voices who are asking t...
Wednesday, August 09, 2006

Trying to Speak Good Christian in Canberra

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I attended the National Forum on Australia's Christian Heritage at Parliament House, Canberra on Monday and Tuesday. I was hoping it wo...
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Tuesday, June 27, 2006

In the Seed Shop with Jesus - Sermon for the 2nd Sunday after Pentecost (18 June)

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Text: Mark 4:26-34 Jesus often spoke in parables and these seemed to have been designed to puzzle those who only had a superficial interest ...
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Friday, June 23, 2006

Sermon for Trinity Sunday (11 June 2006)

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Text: Isaiah 6:1-8 In a year of national crisis for Israel, at the death of King Uzziah, the prophet Isaiah was given a transforming vision...
Tuesday, June 13, 2006

Glen and Lynnie Visit the Shire

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Well here are some photos from our trip to New Zealand. After speaking at the Wesleyan Convention in Lake Taupo we headed north to the Bay ...
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Sunday, May 28, 2006

The Superhero Test

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I took the Superhero test and much to my surprise I am not after all Batman! This is a major identity crisis for me. I am experiencing prof...
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Wednesday, May 24, 2006

The Gift of Prophecy

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We have been discussing the gift of prophecy in our theology class and a couple of students have raised questions about my approach to the t...
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Tuesday, May 23, 2006

La Trobe Graduation

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At Ludicrousity's request, here are some photos from my recent graduation at La Trobe University . My thesis was formally finalised in ...
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Tuesday, May 02, 2006

Son of a Preacher Man

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The Boy Wonder and I went along to see Harley Breen 's one man show Son of a Preacher Man in Flinders Lane last Tuesday night. It was c...
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The Theology of the Superheroes I: The Incredible Hulk

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Before Ang Lee made gay cowboy movies he made such chop-socky delights as Wo Hu Cang Long (that's Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon to m...
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Sunday, April 16, 2006

Hell Took a Body and Discovered God

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There is a big difference between “He is not here,” and “He is risen!” Mary, and Peter, and John, along with the other disciples moved in t...
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Wednesday, April 12, 2006

"Remember, Remember, the Fifth of November"

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I saw V For Vendetta last night with the Boy Wonder and Wisdom88. It's a corker. Best film I've seen this year no contest. Ho...
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Thursday, April 06, 2006

Bring the Troops Home

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America is stuck with 100,000 troops in a very ugly war in Iraq which shows no sign of letting up anywhere soon, and seems likely to become ...
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Wednesday, April 05, 2006

This Office Opposes the War in Iraq

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A lot of people don't know that John Wesley was a pacifist. He could not see how Christianity could possibly be compatible with war an...
Thursday, March 23, 2006

The Magic of the Black Disc

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A friend emailed me recently and said that he had just purchased Bob Dylan's Planet Waves . It just so happened that I had been listeni...
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Tuesday, February 28, 2006

Visioneer Films

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You can now view the Boy Wonder's (my son Jesse's) short films A Night of Fowl Play , Shelter , and The Waiting R oom at www.visio...
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Glen O'Brien
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
I'm married to Lynda and we have four children and two grandchildren. I live in Mernda just beyond Melbourne's northern limit. I serve as Associate Professor of Church History and Theology at Booth College, a Member Institute of the Sydney College of Divinity (I commute). I'm a Minister of the Word in the Uniting Church. I watch too many movies, especially classic Hollywood, and need to start thinking about alternative storage solutions for my DVDs. As for music, I like it all. iPod therefore I am. I am a book enthusiast with a growing collection of classic theology texts, paperbacks from the classic era of crime fiction and Silver and Bronze Age (1960s and 70s) comics.
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