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 [...]
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 [...]
Art for The Voice
The Effective Living Centre is co-hosting Indigenous arts events this week in support of the proposed First Nations Voice to Parliament. Tuesday evening, a film screening and conversation with the director; this weekend [...]
Trinity. Framing our glimpses of the Sacred
Reflection for Pilgrim Uniting Church, 4 June 2023 Praise of the beloved children Fragrant offering of love, gift of your own life, Jesus, our Holy Christ, we thank you. [...]
Spirited Empowerment
Reflection for Pilgrim Uniting Church, 28 May 2023 Acts 2:1–21 and the book of Joel Fly to us, Spirit Holy Fill our rooms with sound, with wind, with [...]
spiritual but not
fragile we call to each other fragile we meet fragile breaking, falling apart fragile we stand together fragile strangers fragile humans more human together, fragile opening to Sacred mystery, fragile breaking falling open fragile [...]
Resurrection Life
Reflection for Unley Uniting Church, 21 May 2023 Luke 24:44–53 and Acts 1:1–11 Jesus ascends Why stand you there, looking heavenward? In a cloud he left you, in [...]
A poetic invitation to love
Reflection for Willunga Uniting Church, 14 May 2023 John 14:15–21 to love to love me is to keep my teaching, to ask your teacher, to trust your helper; [...]
while the jacarandas burst
jacarandas shout rebirth! life turns out of winter sleep; yet, spring’s unseasonal storms wash purple tears in torrents a brother, all of a sudden; a mother, cancer let go at last the trees and [...]
Guiding your people through Advent
I have been creating liturgies for, and retelling the stories of, Advent and Christmas for many years now, and I would like to share that creativity with you. Perhaps you'll use a prayer [...]
of ripples, glistening
sunlight shows the surface ripples, glistens gold on dew-dropped leaves; warms my legs and blinds me as I squint past upper story windows to the vast pristine blue from hidden perches, kookaburras’ laughter draws [...]
Holding space for your retreat
Perhaps it seems a bit twee in expression, but part of my vocation, my exercise of a ministry of presence, is to hold space for people. I exercise a ministry of holding people [...]
