Uncommon Prayers

Texts:   1 John 3.16-24; John 10.11-18 How sweet and honourable it is to die for one's country: Death pursues the man who flees,...

Texts: Acts 3.12-19; Psalm 4; 1 John 3.1-7; Luke 24.36-48  When, in Luke’s version of the story, the risen Jesus first appears to his c...

Genesis 17.1-7, 15-16; Psalm 22.23-31; Romans 4. 13-25; Mark 8.31-38  In the land of Israel and of Palestine there is a war. Despite the...

Genesis 9.8-17; Psalm 25.1-10; 1 Peter 3.18-22; Mark 1.9-15 In 1922 T.S. Eliot published what many still consider to be the most importan...

Isaiah 40.21-31; Psalm 147.1-11, 20c; Mark 1.29-39 According to Mark’s gospel, Jesus did a number of things after he was baptised. He tra...

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

This article first appeared in Gesher: the official journal of The Council of Christians and Jews (Victoria) 4/5 (2014): pp.16-19.  The...