The Angel says: Do not be afraid and yet we live in terrifying times How can we believe in resurrection when we are still hiding in the tomb?

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Easter Sunday

This is not a Good Day, this is not a day where we get to race from the tomb and meet our loved one on the road. This is a day of doing the work of grieving...

Good Friday

The Woman at the Well stands in isolation and Jesus stands with her. How can we be present to each other during this pandemic, not give in to tribal prejudice and love one another across the borders of quarantine?

Corona: The highway man of fear and the casual racism is as old as a woman standing alone at a well.

The murder of Hannah Baxter and the outrage at police and media response and the subsequent standing down of a leading Queensland policeman shows that Transfiguration: radical change and truth shining through.. is happening all around us

Transfiguration: The murder of Hannah Baxter and her children and the telling of the truth.

Thousands of animals and birds are facing extinction because of the fires. And so we mourn...does this mean we are blessed?

Blessed are the Owl and the Lyrebird: Beatitudes today

The Australian Goverment has run with the apathy mandate given to it by the Australian voters...maybe the Bushfires will wake us up.

The elevator pitch and the bushfire spin.

We all know the story of the man filled with brokenness, hiding in the graveyard...thank god we don't treat people like that anymore...do we...?

Aboriginal boy locked up, naked. Man found in tombs, naked......

Post election we are left standing on the edge of possibility...Bob Hawke was a lighthouse leader who helped save the Tarkine..what will our new PM do? Every age needs lighthouse leaders...and each of us have a prat to play in the creation of a new heaven and a new earth...

A New Heaven And A New Earth: Bob Hawke and the lighthouse.

Come listen to Archie Roach and the Whale Man as they live out a the story of the light in the dark. Know what it is to surge up from below.... and find out how the very earth needs resurrection.

Good Spirit Easter

Two wee boys sitting on a couch in NZ, losing their lives to hatred. The recognition that we are all but dust and ashes. And grace. Always grace.

I Was Going Too Talk To You Today About Ash

When was the last time someone did a beautiful thing for you? When did you last do something beautiful for the other....? A story of a swagman, a sister and love.

A Few Weeks Ago I Had The Honour Of Presiding At A Funeral

How do we tell a story of light when the darkness rises up with such overwhelming force.....White supremacy and the power of love.

There Are Only Two Feelings: Love and Fear and New Zealand

George Pell..who here does not feel like weeping? Pity, justice and holy hope.

Im Thinking About Light Now: Transfiguration and George Pell

Joseph gets what he has coming...doesn't he? An ancient story of trauma and forgiveness and about how the holy spirit can help break the cycle...

Breaking Patterns in Broken relationships

This Christmas we go back to stardust and we remind each other that for the OK people to simply be OK is no longer OK...it is a dereliction of duty

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