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a moment of whimsy, put out there in case you’re over it as well… i’d like a thick skin the kind that takes nicks and cuts without flooding them with blood and where the scab forms quickly and falls...
View Articlethis is the moment
[for E, with love] This is the moment that all of faith and love has been preparing you for and we stand here with you at the edge of the life you would never choose to live looking into its unknown...
View Articlethere’s no place like it – the wrap
[image by mike] I had no idea my body could hurt this much. The space was beautiful on Saturday night – made more so by the people who came in and made it their own. We were over run by people – they...
View Articlethe mirrors of judgement
While we were in London a few weeks ago, we visited Michelangelo Pistoletto’s ‘Mirrors of judgement’ at the Serpentine Gallery. It’s a large scale labyrinthine installation, a really beautiful space,...
View Articleif this is where you are
a blessing for the end of a space next week if this is where you are: in land that is arid in a world where no life can be found if you have no hope left to believe, then let your faith simply be this:...
View Articlethe ancient story of life
I’m in the office working today, getting ready for a space i’m doing at the cross cultural ministry and mission retreat this week. The retreat is based around the new preamble for the Uniting Church...
View Articleminajalku
I’m doing a space at the Minajalku indigenous worship service next week – Sunday 13th November at 3pm, 13 Rossmoyne St Thornbury. Come along… There’ll be cake. And good people. And a space.
View Articlefear and promise
it must have been a year ago that we sat in the cafe and he told me his story of love gone wrong. and i listened to him tell me why his complicity in betrayal was legitimate: ‘love always wins’, he...
View Articlethe pregnant pause
Perhaps our mistake is thinking that love will always come in the shape we have known it: a happy ending a new beginning a christ-child. In this pregnant pause while the earth holds its breath waiting...
View Articlesalt, water, sandpaper and space… [and then some holidays...]
This sunday I’m repeating a space i curated a few weeks ago at the cross cultural ministry and mission gathering, this time at Minajalku Indigenous Centre, 13 Rossmoyne Street Thornbury. It starts at...
View Articleadvent
Back from holidays today, feeling terribly sad at the news of the death of an old friend – it wasn’t unexpected, there had been warning, but even so it is impossible to believe that someone so alive,...
View Articlei thought i was done
a bastardisation of a recurring theological conversation about forgiveness… who knew there was more to forgive? the pain was easiest the skin doesn’t remember the force of a slap once its imprint fades...
View Articlefailed acts of hope
i think if i had the words i would do advent for those who are surviving failed acts of hope [the aftermath of the faithed-out apocalypse] but this is the crisis of faith for which i have no response...
View Articlethe edge of its collapse
Someone pointed out to me last night that things are dark around this blog at the moment… they do seem that way! it’s important to note again that this blog is not an autobiographical journal of my...
View Articleback in
It’s been almost a year since I’ve been in Port Phillip prison. It was both lovely and terrible to walk in and pick up conversations with some of the men right where we left off last Christmas day… to...
View Articlewhen love is beyond us
a first prayer for the prison next week We confess that there are times we find living with hope is simply too hard, when it seems easier to focus on miracles of virgin births, shining stars and wise...
View ArticleIn the Age today – on being in the prison at christmas
I wrote this piece for the Age today. Apparently it’s online, but I can’t find it… On Christmas day each year I go into one of Victoria’s prisons to spend some time with some of the men in there. The...
View Articlethis is all it takes
Luke 2:1-20 for christmas in the prison. it’s still a bit rough, but you get the idea… The story tells us that this is all it takes for love to be born: you listen to the voice of improbable angels you...
View Articleimagination
I wrote this last week, and then my blog broke for a couple of days, and i thought it was lost… But no! Hooray! I’ve just spent two days in Hobart doing some planning around an event that we’re going...
View Articlenaming it and claiming it
the things in my life to which i have said no over and over before relinquishing to a faint, reluctantly inevitable ‘yes’ have been the best – by far – things i’ve done. i so hope this will be like...
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