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The debate about whether or not homosexual people should be ordained as clergy seems to have brought down the global Anglican Church as a unified body.
I’m not exactly sure of the details of who believes what, but this article seems to suggest that at the conservative end, homosexuality is seen as outside God’s will and thus […]

Two of our young people, and regular mattglover.com contributors, took a deep breath and were batised before friends, family and God on Sunday night.
I’l say this a thousand times before I die, but baptisms are my favourite time in church life. Hearing the story of God entwined with the story of a person is the […]

Sorry if you were trying to acess the blog yesterday - seems like I pressed the wrong button again and brought the whole thing crashing down….
 Anyway, back to normal now.

Following on from this post.
Another article in the paper about the Government’s proposal to introduce chaplains  into shools across Australia. I put the word ‘chaplain’ in italics becasue that’s what we’re supposed to be talking about…
The article in question, by Professor Judith Bessant, seems motivated by another agenda and disregards the welfare of students entirely. […]

A bit of a stink is rising about the new Superman movie and how some see it as yet another movie based on the story of Jesus.
There’s been hundreds of movies that have a ‘christ’ figure in them. Movies where the main character dies but then is brought to life to save humanity, or variations […]

A few months ago, I did a series on some of the questions God asks in the Bible. We spent some time looking at the following three questions, where they were asked in the Bible and how God still asks them today…
Where are you? God to Adam and Eve
Where is your brother? God to Cain
What […]

On Sunday night, we came to the end of our journey through the Old Testament’s Song of Songs. Well, because of the repetitive nature of the Song, we actually finished dealing with the text the week before State Youth Games, but there were a number of questions that had been raised during the last few […]

The rainbow flag is a symbol of gay pride. I have one on my office window.
Not because I am gay, but because I think young people that struggle with issues of sexuality get a pretty rough time. They can be isolated from their family, their school and their workplace and end up feeling very alone […]

A lot of churches around where I live have been changing their names recently. Many of them have “new” or “hope” or “community” in their names, whilst others have gone a step further and chosen titles that seem to have nothing to do with a faith community.
With my community, we decided against changing our name […]

My new blog, Chewing Pencils, is now up and running! There’s still a few formatting issues to work through, but I’ve started adding content and gathering resources for cartoonists and illustrators to earn money from their artwork.
I’m hoping to be able to update it maybe two or three times a week. Take some time to […]