By Peter Corney.

There is a third world community development saying that goes something like this – “To feed a starving person is a moral obligation but if you teach him to fish as well you do an even better thing” – you create the possibility of self help and indigenous sustainable development.

If [...]

Youth work – lessons from the past.
 
A lecture delivered by Peter Corney at the Ridley Youth Ministry Conference, July 2004.
 
 Some historical observations
Imagine it’s just at the turn of the century in the UK (1890s to 1900) and you are wandering about a large town or city in the UK and you stumble across a group [...]

By Peter Corney
An address given at the inaugural Melbourne meeting of Christians for Biblical Equality, 24 October 2005.
I did not grow up in a churchgoing family but it had a strong background of “assumed egalitarianism”. It was the old Henry Lawson Australian spirit of egalitarianism – The ‘Jacks’ as good as his master’ kind. If [...]

By Peter Corney
There is a Greek myth called the Maze of Minos. According to the myth the maze or labyrinth was built on the island of Crete by the King of Crete. In the heart of this maze lived a terrible and fierce beast, half man half bull known as the Minator.
Because the Athenians had [...]

by Peter Corney
The German theologian Helmut Thieleke tells the story of a young man walking through the European countryside one summer’s day. It is nearly lunch time and he is feeling hungry. As he walks along he sees a handsomely painted sign advertising a meat pie, it looks delicious. He thinks there must be a [...]

by Peter Corney
A cruise ship is making its way across the Pacific Ocean on a beautiful calm tropical day. The passengers are strolling along the deck, swimming in the pool, sun baking or playing deck games.
Suddenly without warning the emergency alarm sounds shattering the calm. The crew hurriedly gathers the passengers on the boat deck. [...]

The 2007 J. Spencer Nall Memorial Lecture

‘Christ and Culture’ (The challenge – To conform or to transform?)

The key issue I want to address is whether we as Christians will allow ourselves to conform to the culture we are part of or will we seek to transform it by the values and Spirit of the [...]

by Peter Corney
The future of the Diocese of Melbourne in the next twenty years
This address is about the future. They say that in relation to the future there are three kinds of people: Those who let it happen, those who make it happen and those who wonder what happened!
It is tempting to begin with structural [...]

By Peter Corney
The French Revolution in the late 18th Century began France’s great secular experiment. The age of Reason had arrived. Reason was now to be supreme. (Mind you it is worth remembering that it was ushered in with most bloody and frequently unreasonable actions!) Of the many extraordinary events that took place at that time [...]

By Peter Corney
On Saturday March 21st this year The Age carried an unusual graphic with the lead story in the business section. The story was about the international financial crisis and excessive executive payouts. It showed an engraving of Adam and Eve being expelled from the Garden of Eden and an angel standing guard at [...]