Return to life
Easter Day reflections Pulling the lens wider The resurrection of Jesus is told often with a sense of immediacy – whiz – bang – blinding light and earth-shattering suddenness [...]
Holy Week poetry
Holy Week: Tuesday Pray the Story has been a project, a practice, of composing prayer-poems (poetic prayers or prayerful poems) in response to biblical compositions. At various times I have read these [...]
Diary of a Chronically Exhausted Vicar. A new chapter
I stopped writing episodes in this diary of chronic exhaustion several years ago, when I needed to concentrate first on survival in a traumatic couple of years, and then on [...]
Stories for life
Madeline Martin's bookish heroines This Christmas, while looking for gifts for others, I found a novel that grabbed my attention, then went looking for more from the author. In these particular works, Madeline [...]
Returning. Ash Wednesday
Returning Ash Wednesday Ritual and Reflection By Sarah Agnew, forChrist Church Uniting, Wayville On Kaurna Country, with gratitude and respect. We share in the Uniting Church’s commitment to healing and [...]
Liturgy for the General Secretary
The National Assembly of the Uniting Church in Australia appoints a General Secretary to help facilitate the administration, mission, and governance of the church's national work. My friend, Andrew Johnson, has [...]
Where is Peter?: Palm Sunday reflections
Reflection for Christ Church Uniting, 10 March 2024 with Matthew 16:21–23 and 'Wandering Heart' by A Sanctified Art Through Lent we have been hearing Peter’s story of life with Jesus. And [...]
Faith enough: Lent 4 reflections
Reflection for Christ Church Uniting, 10 March 2024 with Matthew 16:21–23 and 'Wandering Heart' by A Sanctified Art Hesitation Again, we hear from Hannah Garrity: Peter ‘worries about human things. How [...]
Say it clear: Lent 3 reflections
Reflection for Christ Church Uniting, 3 March 2024 with Psalm 19 & Matthew 16:13–20 and 'Wandering Heart' by A Sanctified Art Who others say Jesus is Peter says ‘You are the Messiah. [...]
Then I remembered
Holy Week Stories with Christ Church Uniting and The Effective Living Centre Three stories, for Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of Holy Week. Listen to or read one a day as a meditation if [...]
Meeting Jesus: Lent 1 reflections
Reflection for Christ Church Uniting, 18 February 2024 with Luke (4:38–41), 5:1–11 and 'Wandering Heart' by A Sanctified Art Encounters Through Lent, our congregation is travelling with the disciple, Peter, entering [...]
Australian Women Preach
Lent 2 - Jesus transfigured I met some of the team behind Australian Women Preach, at a conference in Melbourne last year. The team invited me to present a reflection / homily / [...]
