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Monday, 14 October 2024

Killing the Indigenous: reflections on baptism in Warwick Thornton's 'The New Boy'

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‘The New Boy’ is a 2023 film by Kaytetye man Warwick Thornton which explores the collision between white Catholic and Aboriginal spiritualit...
Sunday, 29 September 2024

Jesus the Fire of God

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Texts: Exodus 3.1-12; Psalm 46.4-11; 2 Peter 3.3-16; John 8.12, 28-30, 54-59 As we wind our way toward the conclusion of this ‘Season of Cre...
Saturday, 7 September 2024

Bread for Indigenous Lands and Peoples: an Aboriginal interpretation of the story of the Syrophoenician woman

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Texts: Proverbs 22:1-2, 8-9, 22-23; Psalm 125; James 2:1-10, 14-17; Mark 7:24-37 Amongst the most common metaphors in the Scriptures for the...
Tuesday, 6 August 2024

White Supremacy with a Human Face: reflections on Australian theological education

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I have been in and around theological education in Australia since 1992, when I first enrolled in a Bachelor of Theology through Whitley Col...
Thursday, 1 August 2024

Gondwana Theology: a trawloolway man reflects on Christian faith (corrected edition, 2024)

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My 2018 book,   Gondwana Theology: a trawloolway man reflects upon Christian faith , is now available for purchase in a new 'corrected...
Sunday, 30 June 2024

Death and Bleeding: Gaza and Israel in Mark’s gospel

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Texts: Lamentations 3.22-33; Psalm 130; Mark 5.21-43 You will all be aware of the conflict that is happening in the middle west (or middle e...
Sunday, 26 May 2024

Reclaiming the Trinity as Kin: a thought experiment on Sorry Day

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Texts: Psalm 29; Romans 8.12-17; John 3.1-17 Today marks the 27th anniversary of the tabling in Federal Parliament of the Bringing Them Home...