Uncommon Prayers

YB Yeats – The Second Coming (1919)   Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the c...

In contemporary Australian experience there are actually three kinds of 'Christmas' celebration. In this short article I’d like to d...

Texts:   Isaiah 62.6-12; Psalm 97; Luke 2.1-20 A moment ago we heard the story of Christ’s birth in Bethlehem, and how the angels sang ...

Advent is the first season of the Church’s year. It encompasses the four Sundays prior to sundown on Christmas Eve, when the shorter Christm...

Texts:  1 Samuel 2. 18-20, 26; Colossians 3. 12-17; Luke 2. 41-52 Today’s lectionary readings encourage us to reflect on the process by...

Texts:  Isaiah 9.2-7; Titus 2.11-14; Luke 2.1-14 The stories and readings of Christmas will have little power or consequence unless we un...

Luke 2.8-20 In Luke’s story about the birth of Jesus, an Angel drops by the fields around Bethlehem with a rather startling news-break f...