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Monday, 14 April 2025

Communion in Country: an Aboriginal meditation on the paschal triduum

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Introduction Let me set the scene for what I want to say with a few historical remarks about the relationship between Christians and native ...
Friday, 7 March 2025

Lent and racism

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It's Lent in the Christian churches, a time to reflect, become aware, and repent of our bad behaviour. To repent means to stop the bad b...
Saturday, 1 March 2025

The Pilgrimage of Prayer: Luke's Transfiguration

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Texts:  Exodus 34.29-35; 2 Corinthians 3.12–4.2; Luke 9.28-36 This Wednesday the church enters the season of Lent.  The Ash Wednesday rite s...
Thursday, 23 January 2025

Lent and Social Class

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Too often the colonial churches—of which the Anglican Church is the paradigm example—preach a message that is addressed only to its middle- ...
Saturday, 7 December 2024

The Bonds of Freedom: vows, sacraments and the formation of the Christian self (2008)

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My doctoral thesis from Monash University was published as a monograph in 2008 by Paternoster Press. It is now available as a paperback with...
Saturday, 26 October 2024

'Your Faith Has Healed You'

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 Job 42.1-6, 10-17; Psalm 34; Hebrews 7.23-28; Mark 10.46-52 The key theme in today’s lectionary readings is that of passage or transforma...
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...