Uncommon Prayers

When I was a teenager, I would go for long contemplative walks in the bush that still surrounds the small town in which I was raised.  This ...

Texts: Isaiah 55. 10-13; Mark 9.2-8 Last night I made an airport run to pick up Lil. The plane was running late, as usual, so I parked in th...

Text: Genesis 50.15—Exodus 1.7 Today’s homily begins by recounting the bad behaviour of Joseph’s brothers. Back in chapter 37 of Genesis, Jo...

Texts: Acts 2.1-22; Psalm 104; 1 Corinthians 12.1-13; John 20.19-23 If, in the Christian calendar, the feast day of Pentecost celebrates the...

'Australia' is a name given this continent by colonisers who came from another hemisphere (the 'north'). Thus, 'Australi...

 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...

  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...