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 [...]
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 [...]
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; [...]
Taking good care
Reflection for Clayton-Wesley Uniting Church, 30 April 2023 Psalm 23, John 10, and Acts 2 in conversation with Jane Austen's Emma Divine Care All is ready, the Divine host [...]
Peace be with you
Reflection for Unley Uniting Church, 16 April 2023 : Easter 2 John 20:19–31 Peace for his disciples 1 The beloved It was strange: before he said peace, before we knew he [...]
Space for your story
Turning up I turn up. I make time, I open a Zoom chat, come to your home, welcome you to mine, or meet you in another warm, inviting, environment. When I turn up, [...]
She told her story, and she was healed
Reflection on Mark 5:21–43 Phil Ruge-Jones | #EarlySermonSeeds She reached out and touched his cloak. She told her story, and she was healed. This is how Phil Ruge-Jones concisely [...]
One scene at a time
The walk with Jesus to the cross Wednesday. It's 8:00 pm. I've just come home, put my PJs on, heated dinner and popped the top of a beer. This is [...]
Learning about leading. Lesson 2: connection.
Communication is key Leadership is all about relationships. Someone whose leadership I appreciate is Phil Ruge-Jones, facilitator of the Network of Biblical Storytellers' Scholars Seminar. He's been reading, too, and found these insights [...]
Learning about leading. Lesson 1: be vulnerable
While on leave, I have been taking the time and space to reflect on leadership, as I prepare to rewrite a book I've already rewritten several times over the past ten years. So far, [...]
God still calls: despite doubt, insecurity, brokenness.
on Jer 1:4–10 and Luke 13:10–17, for Wesley Uniting Church Canberra, 25 August 2019 My, but we can get in God’s way, can’t we? ‘Not today, God, there are rules we cannot break.’ ‘Not [...]
