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Refresh: 7 Signs of a Healthy Relationship

Brian Harris — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 22:00:00 +0000

This refresh post from 22 July 2021 explores the ever pertinent question of what signs we can look for to indicate we are in a healthy relationship. Of course, if the signs aren’t there, we can move into the “what can we do about this?” territory. Hope it’s helpful… 7 Signs of a Healthy Relationship […]

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The Eternal Trio: Faith, Hope and Love

Brian Harris — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 22:00:00 +0000

It’s an incredibly bold claim that Paul makes at the end of what is one of the most beautiful passages of Scripture. In it Paul confidently asserts: “These three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love” (1 Cor 13:13). In many ways it’s a surprising statement, especially given the wider […]

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Signs of a healthy relationship

Brian Harris — Wed, 21 Jul 2021 22:00:00 +0000

I’ve been asked the question often enough, “How can we be sure our love will last? How can we know if our relationship is more than infatuation?” Many decades ago I was helped to explore the question by Anthony Kosnik’s (ed) work Human Sexuality: New Directions in American Catholic Thought. It provoked more than a […]

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Cultivating a spacious heart…

Brian Harris — Wed, 18 Sep 2019 22:00:34 +0000

I don’t know if you can remember a time when your heart was filled with love. Perhaps you thought, “I don’t think I could ever love more than I do now.” It might have been on your wedding day, or on the birth of a child – or even when you first met your puppy! […]

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Sloth: A Twenty First Century Take on an Ancient Vice

Brian Harris — Tue, 06 Nov 2018 22:00:12 +0000

For those familiar with the 7 deadly sins, sloth ranks as one of them – the others being envy, vainglory, avarice, anger, gluttony and lust. I was recently interested to read Rebecca Konyndyk De Young’s take on sloth. Validly pointing out that while we tend to associate sloth with laziness, or lounging on the couch […]

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Post Plebiscite Reflections…

Brian Harris — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 22:00:52 +0000

Well, the results from the Australian Plebiscite on same sex marriage are in, and are very much as predicted with 61.6% in favour and 38.4% against, the only surprise being the astonishingly high participation rate of close to 80%. Clearly this was not an issue over which most Australians yawned in disinterest, grunting a dismissive “whatever”. I’ve […]

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Managing Monday with Thomas Merton

Brian Harris — Sun, 08 Jan 2017 22:00:23 +0000

I recently started reading Thomas Merton’s Contemplation in a World of Action and it has led me to track down some of his quotes and insights. Merton (1915-1968) was a Trappist monk and mystic. For a brief period he was a Communist. He is largely remembered for his work as a civil rights activist, poet, writer […]

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Managing Monday… Some Tillich Quotes

Brian Harris — Sun, 06 Mar 2016 22:00:50 +0000

Last month we introduced ‘Managing Monday’ with 3 quotes each week from the great theologian of the church, Augustine. We will carry on with the three quotes each week format, but from different thinkers each week. Here are three quotes from American/German existentialist theologian from the last century, Paul Tillich (1886-1965). While he had many […]

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Fireproof and Crazy Stupid Love: Comparisons and Contrasts from a Christian Worldview Perspective – By John Mayne

Brian Harris — Wed, 06 Jan 2016 22:00:55 +0000

The relationship between Christianity and the arts is fascinating. The arts were once a sphere dominated by the church, but they now often seem to be a ‘God free’ zone. However, underlying assumptions about the world and reality drive most artistic portrayals, and should be examined and discussed. John Mayne does this very helpfully in […]

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