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Thursday, 15 September 2022

On mourning, the Crown, and Anglican coloniality

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Since the 8th of September, when Queen Elizabeth II of Britain died, our local Australian media have been covering the fact, and its afterma...
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Wednesday, 6 July 2022

A prayer for NAIDOC Week

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Divine creator, who is known by many names, this NAIDOC week we give you thanks that we are here,       that we have survived. We give thank...
Sunday, 29 May 2022

Losing Ourselves to Gain Ourselves for Justice

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 Texts:  Acts 16.16-34; Revelation 22.12-21; John 17.20-26 Five years ago, two hundred and fifty Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander lea...
Monday, 2 May 2022

When it comes to defending the flourishing of country, and of human life, I am no pacifist

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The war in Ukraine is, of course, just one of the conflicts raging in the world right now. For the moment, the conflicts in Palestine, Yemen...
Saturday, 19 March 2022

Acknowledgement of Country for dummies

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Some of the discussions I've had this week with very smart non-Indigenous people have revealed that uttering an Acknowledgement of Count...
Friday, 18 March 2022

Upon attending a lecture entitled 'Race and Scripture in Australia'

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I've just come home from a stimulating and learned public lecture offered at Pilgrim Theological College by a wonderful young historian,...
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Sunday, 13 March 2022

Enemies, real and imagined

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  Genesis 15.1-12, 17-21; Psalm 27; Philippians 3.17-4.1; Luke 13.31-35 Enemies. We all have them. And, if we don’t have any real enemies,...