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  1. Paidiske

    Anyone up for a chat thread?

    That does sound really lovely. And your girls will be old enough to appreciate and remember it.
  2. Paidiske

    Anyone up for a chat thread?

    Thank you. The preferred option being explored (I should know more next week) is actually a shift into school chaplaincy. We shall see... Praying. Preaching tabs are rarely worn here; I have seen them, very occasionally, but I myself have never worn them.
  3. Paidiske

    Is it important for Children to be safe and for justice to be served?

    As someone who is a priest who hears confessions, and operates under laws which require me to disclose child sexual abuse, it's pretty much a non-issue, because the people who do this don't take it to confession. That's what I've learned from people who are expert in working with perpetrators...
  4. Paidiske

    Lust - What does normal look like?

    @RDKirk gave you a very good response. My kind of simple rule-of-thumb around when a sex drive becomes lust in a sinful way, is about when you'd choose to act inappropriately on it. So, for example, it's not sinful to notice that someone other than your wife is attractive. It becomes a...
  5. Paidiske

    What is currently on your mind?

    I do think that ultimately we can't separate our rational mind from our emotions; cognitively they are too inextricably linked.
  6. Paidiske

    Discussion thread for "God's Word to Women" book

    I probably won't participate much, but I reckon if you're interested, start it; if nothing else some of us will probably read along.
  7. Paidiske

    What is currently on your mind?

    Oh, it's not battle, it's sport. A very time-honoured tradition; we see the evidence in medieval manuscripts. ;) What's on my mind is how painful moving house is. And how much decluttering and sorting I have to do, before we even get to the packing...
  8. Paidiske

    What is currently on your mind?

    I'm sure you've heard the idea that love isn't really a feeling. To love is to act for the good of the other, regardless of what you're feeling. I hope your week improves from here!
  9. Paidiske

    What is currently on your mind?

    I think love is situational. It's always between real people, in their real circumstances, and those are seldom perfect or ideal.
  10. Paidiske

    Spiritual Direction

    I've had spiritual direction on and off (mostly on) now for about 17 years. I usually see my spiritual director about once a month. Sometimes I find those conversations very helpful and very much prompting new insight. Other times not so much. I think the discipline of seeing someone...
  11. Paidiske

    I want to go to seminary and become a Catholic priest

    I'm an Anglican priest. I guess the first thing I'd say is that the process is long and involved, and for someone in your position, that's a gift. You can make initial enquiries and explore the possibility of ordination, without that meaning that you've made an irrevocably life commitment...
  12. Paidiske

    Helping at church.

    What I've tried to do is sort of set up a bit of a team; one person to be the official warden, but with two or three others who can work with them to look after the actual work involved. I haven't really got anywhere so far. I think part of the problem is that what the church (and, in fact...
  13. Paidiske

    Helping at church.

    I have a lot of very good people in the parish, for which I'm grateful. There is a challenge, I find, that sometimes the things that need doing, are not a good match for the gifts, personality, experience, etc., of the people available. Our parish has had a vacant warden's position for over...
  14. Paidiske

    Anyone up for a chat thread?

    That is a significant cultural gap. Cricket is absolutely part of life here, and even I (a very not-sporty person) was forced to play a bit at school.
  15. Paidiske

    Anyone up for a chat thread?

    Oh, don't apologise to me. I'm a migrant to Australia. And overall I think we've emerged from our messy beginnings to be a pretty good place to live. :)
  16. Paidiske

    Anyone up for a chat thread?

    The Americans? Do they not? I have a hunch that there's a big difference between a place founded as, in effect, a religious sanctuary for the nonconforming, and one founded as a penal colony.
  17. Paidiske

    Anyone up for a chat thread?

    So, some of you may remember that I was undergoing a review process. It was announced today that I will finish up in the parish here at the end of September. The bishop tells me the decision is basically for my wellbeing; he feels that the parish have very unreasonable expectations (his exact...
  18. Paidiske

    Anyone up for a chat thread?

    I can see exactly why they'd do that, and it's a good strategy, but you're not really their target audience.
  19. Paidiske

    "Capitalism is killing the small church"

    In New Testament terms, a priest is an elder, and a bishop is an overseer. It's just different words for the same thing.
  20. Paidiske

    Church Growth Discussion

    Yes yes yes. Some tact does go a long way. I once tried to explain to a congregation that to my generation, if you're not on Facebook, you don't exist. I was speaking of organisations, but many of the parishioners (who were not on Fb) took it as a personal insult and never really forgave me...
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