SERMONS PREACHED AT WEST HAWTHORN UNITING CHURCH

From all accounts the USA now has its own equivalent to our own Pauline Hanson in the person of Sarah Palin who this week became the Republican Party's nominee for Vice President of the USA...............

On a night in early December 2005 I joined some hundreds of other people at about 2am to climb Mt Sinai on the Sinai peninsula......

One has to acknowledge the magnificent job the Chinese people have done in hosting the Olympic Games in Beijing............................

A year ago Hillary Clinton, wife of former US President Bill Clinton, and a Senator for the highly influential state of New York, was hot favorite to secure the Democratic Party's nomination to run for the US Presidency in November 2008. .............................

I guess we are all familiar with the saying “there is no place like home!”  I wonder what do you associate with that statement? I guess it depends a bit on what your experience of “home” has been like – good or not so good.  And of course linked with our individual “home” experience is a place or maybe more than one place: a building or a series of buildings................

Last week it was reported that Macquarie Bank chief executive Allan Moss will leave his job with a payout of $80,000,000. His successor, Nicholas Moore, will become Australia's highest paid executive, earning $26,800,000 per year – 80 times what Kevin Rudd gets as Prime Minister...................

On the front page of each edition of the Melbourne Age newspaper is a small box titled “Water”. Below the caption are printed “Melbourne Dams” and then how much (expressed in a % of total capacity) water is currently filling all of Melbourne's catchment dams...........

On 3 April 2008, Texas USA law enforcement officers entered the Yearning for Zion Ranch, headquarters of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.......................