Church elections as witness
Ordering congregational life This Sunday our congregation holds its Congregational Life AGM (we split the business of the congregation, and hold a Budget AGM in the Spring). At this Summer AGM, we gather [...]
Aligned with God’s Way of Love
Reflection for Wesley Uniting Church Jeremiah 17:5–10; Psalm 1; Luke 6:17–26 Blessing. Woe. Judgement? When a prophet, when Jesus, announces blessing and woe, what is really going on? Well, let’s start with [...]
Listen to the Whispers
Poems from Whisper On My Palm Whisper On My Palm is a new collection of poems I will have published with Resource Publications in 2022. These are poems through the experiences of grief, illness, [...]
Touch
I cannot hold your hand today, friend or stranger, when we meet. I take instead the rose’s leaf, ‘hold me’, it said, ‘offer me your greeting.’ I cannot share embrace with [...]
From King of Glory to Shining Parent of the Kin-dom.
Metaphors that help explore the difference between human use of power, and God’s. Psalm 24 and Mark 6:14–29 Of kings and kingdoms ‘Who is the king of glory?’ [...]
The lake is always bigger
the lake doesn't care; and Jesus brings peace to the lake Reflection for Wesley Uniting Church, Refugee Sunday Mark 4:31-35 Richard was friends with a sailor, who spent his lifetime sailing [...]
Finding love, living love, that builds each other up
Reflection for Wesley Uniting Church, Forrest Epiphany 4 1 Corinthians 8:1-13; Mark 1:21-28; Deuteronomy 18:15-20 Grace Tame. Australian of the Year. Possibly the most talked about person in our country this week. [...]
Last Christmas
For Christmas 2019 and 2020 (and the rest) Last Christmas gave us a fright, lines of dazzling light, searing wounds visible from highest skies. This Christmas, we can not light even [...]
Choking
A lament for Australia Summer 2020 Where do we begin with this great wall of fire or that fire storm or the hungry angry monster? Where do we begin? How do we enfold them [...]
