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Sunday, 10 March 2024

The snake and the Christ: defamiliarising the biblical text

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 Texts: Numbers 21.4-9; John 3.14-21 I begin by acknowledging that we worship this morning on the unceded country of the Eora federation. I ...
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Tuesday, 30 January 2024

Christ: a sign to be opposed

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 Texts: Malachi 3.1-7; Luke 2.22-38 When Jesus is taken to the temple in Jerusalem to be dedicated to the purposes of God, Luke has an old m...
Sunday, 12 November 2023

Contemplating Country: more Gondwana theology (2023)

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My new book, Contemplating Country: more Gondwana theology , has just been published by Wipf & Stock. Contemplating Country picks up wh...
Sunday, 17 September 2023

A Voice for Country: saying 'Yes' to Indigenous ecological wisdom

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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 ...
Sunday, 3 September 2023

Voice of Country, Voice of the Divine

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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...
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Sunday, 20 August 2023

How to be Steadfast When Hope is Fading

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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...
Sunday, 28 May 2023

St John's Pentecost

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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...