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Tuesday, 4 April 2023

The slave of the Lord

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 Texts: Isaiah 50.4-9a; Psalm 31.9-16; Philippians 2.5-11; Matthew’s passion In the calendar of the western church today is ‘Palm’ or, alter...
Friday, 3 March 2023

'Saved by the Cross of Christ'. But How?

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  Text:   Romans 3.22b-31 According to the Apostle Paul, you and I are made right in God’s eyes not by our keeping of God’s law or commandme...
Sunday, 5 February 2023

The Law, the Prophets and Justice for First Peoples

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Texts: Isaiah 58.1-12; Matthew 5.13-20 In the gospel reading we heard from just now, Matthew has Jesus say:  Do not think that I have come t...
Sunday, 11 December 2022

Hope, Patience and Justice

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Isaiah 35.1-10; Magnificat; James 5.7-10 The letter of James, which we read just now, says: Be patient, therefore, beloved, until the coming...
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Tuesday, 29 November 2022

'Wait without Hope': Contemplation and consumer society

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In 'East Coker' (1940), the second of his Four Quartets , TS Eliot wrote this: I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope Fo...
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Sunday, 23 October 2022

The Kenosis Model: how the churches can reckon with their colonial legacy

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Let me begin by acknowledging this country, Gadigal country, its ancestors and elders. Like my cousin Naomi, I am trawloolway. Our country i...
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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