Anglican Down Under: A new job for me?

Wednesday, July 27, 2016

A new job for me?

LinkedIn is hilarious. Below is an excerpt from an email sent to me overnight. Apparently, from my rather thin CV supplied in my profile, I am eligible for the following jobs.

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Lecturer / Senior Lecturer Psychology (Developmental)

University of Canterbury

Canterbury & West Coast, New Zealand

5 days ago

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Head of School of Engineering and Advanced Technology

Massey University

Auckland, New Zealand

14 days ago

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Associate Director - Student Wellbeing & Engagement

The University of Auckland

Auckland, New Zealand

14 days ago

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Professor / Associate Professor in Accounting

University of Canterbury

Canterbury & West Coast, New Zealand

15 days ago

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Lecturer - Tourism

University of Otago

Otago & Southland, New Zealand

6 days ago

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Student Academic Services & Engagement Manager

The University of Auckland

Auckland, New Zealand

12 days ago

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Associate Professor/Professor of Accountancy

Massey University

Taranaki, Wanganui & Manawatu, New Zealand

14 days ago

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Massey Business School Marketing and Communications Manager

Massey University

Auckland, New Zealand

6 days ago

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Lecturer/ Senior Lecturer in Operations Research/Computational Analytics

The University of Auckland

Auckland, New Zealand

12 hours ago

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Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing

Massey University

Taranaki, Wanganui & Manawatu, New Zealand

1 day ago

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Now, natch, I consider myself an amateur psychologist second to none, along with professional if not professorial level abilities at creative accounting (OK, so the word "creative" is not actually in the titles above). Also I have friends who are accountants.

Tourism, well, I have travelled a bit, and know most of the South Island like the back of my hand while thinking the North Island is foreign country. As for "creative writing" ... you are reading this blog. Perhaps you could supply a reference?

I think I will stick to serving the Anglican church, boosting its psychological well-being, beefing up its finances, generally touring about from parish to parish ... and blogging :)

2 comments:

Father Ron Smith said...: Dear Peter, if the term 'Creative Writiung' is meant to imply the use of an elevated gift of imagination - sanctified or not - I should think that most bloggers have that distinctive facility. In fact, I have complete an officialy approved course in such a discipline and am immensely enjoying the result, post -retirement. I don't expect to be taking up the offer sho have given to us here.; July 27, 2016 at 1:53 PM
Peter Carrell said...: Hi Ron
I am not going to publish your comment here which refers to a noted journalist in terms of "creative writing" and links allegation made against a prelate of one church with another prelate ... you have your own blog to make those assertions. But I am not publishing what you submitted here because even if not libellous it could require extrication via multiple apologies etc ... time to waste which I do not have!; July 28, 2016 at 7:41 AM

Anglican Down Under

Welcome to this blog on Anglican, theological, biblical and other matters, mostly missional or liturgical (but I reserve the right to write about cricket and politics). It is grounded in some islands at the bottom of the world which, together with a large island to our west, constitute fabulous Down Under.

I have two related blogs which I post on less frequently:

Hermeneutics and Human Dignity

Resourcing Preaching and Worship Down Under

I am Bishop of the Diocese of Christchurch in the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia (ACANZP). I am trying to write in ways which contribute to the flourishing of the church of God - a church represented in the Anglican Communion, in the Anglican churches of these islands and, of course, in my Diocese. You will judge whether I am succeeding or not!

Pearls

Show us anything clearly set forth in Holy Scripture that we do not teach and we will teach it. Show us anything in our teaching or practice is clearly contrary to Holy Scripture, and we will abandon it.

Stephen Neill

For the glory of God is a human being fully alive, and the glory of humanity is the vision of God.

St Irenaeus

Fundamentally the Gospel is obsessed with the idea of the unity of human society.

Masure

We have returned to the Apostles and the old Catholic Fathers. We have planted no new religion, but only preserved the old that was undoubtedly founded and used by the Apostles of Christ and other holy Fathers of the Primitive Church.

Bishop Jewel

Preachers shall behave themselves modestly and soberly in every department of their life. But especially shall they see to it that they teach nothing in the way of a sermon, which they would have religiously held and believed by the people, save what is agreeable to the teaching of the Old or New Testament, and what the Catholic fathers and ancient bishops have collected from this selfsame doctrine.

Canon 6 from the 1571 Bishop’s Convocation

Kent: "See better, Lear, and let me still remain."

William Shakespeare

For the clarity that we are aiming at is indeed complete clarity. But this simply means that the philosophical problems should completely disappear.

Wittgenstein

Justice is eternal, and doesn't depend at all on human conventions.

Montesquieu

The real challenge of Islam to Western intellectual discourse is for us to ask ourselves whether our unprecedented modern experiment of conducting political life with no transcendent values is really working out as well as we once hoped.

Harvey Cox

The long-term happiness of a society depends on how individuals behave towards each other, how families hold together, and how leaders keep the trust of people.

William Hague

Where orthodoxy is optional, orthodoxy will sooner or later be proscribed.

John Neuhaus

To be an evangelical is not, first and foremost, about doctrinal correctness, but about a passion for the gospel of salvation from sin through Christ for eternity.

John Richardson

Neither may we ... lightly esteem what hath been allowed as fit in the judgement of antiquity, and by the long continued practice of the whole church; from which unnecessarily to swerve, experience hath never as yet found it safe.

Richard Hooker (Lawes, V.7.1)

The function of the Christian canon was to separate the apostolic witness from the ongoing tradition of the church, whose truth was continually in need of being tested by the apostolic faith.

Brevard S. Childs

Every word of God proves true. (Proverbs 30:5)

If the people of this religion are asked about the proof for the soundness of their religion, they flare up, get angry and spill the blood of whoever confronts them with this question. They forbid rational speculation, and strive to kill their adversaries. This is why truth became thoroughly silenced and concealed.

Muhammad ibn Zakariya Razi

Change comes through ordinary working people organising themselves to struggle for a better world day in, day out.

Morning Star newspaper editorial Tuesday 5 May 2015

"In the soft grey silence he could hear the bump of the balls: and from here and from there through the quiet air the sound of the cricket bats: pick, pack, pock, puck: like drops of water in a fountain falling softly in the brimming bowl."

James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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Wednesday, July 27, 2016

A new job for me?

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