Viewing the News on the TV, it may seem impossible. But continuing to dream our dreams of peace in a humane world may be one of the most important things we can do right now. To allow space for the vision of peace to permeate our conciousness. So that we radiate peace. So that the …
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To Everything, Turn, Turn, Turn…
Above: Washington Cathedral, last Sunday night… A beautiful and defiant response to last week’s nasty media set-up of Ukrainian President Zelensky by Trump and his attack dog, Vance, in the Oval Office, to humiliate and discredit him. As the Pete Seeger, quoting the Good Book in Ecclesiastes 3:1-8, ‘there is… a time for every purpose …
Another Way…
There is another way…Palestinian and Jewish friends will show itRooted in ancient wisdomDistilled over millenia of civilisational survival… To welcome the strangerTo support the needyTo share what we have in common… Even kindergarten kids are taught that.
Spiritual Innovation
The Covid cloud of anxiety and heaviness has been descending even further now, to envelop us. From time to time, flashes of anger, impatience, unpredictable lashing out in frustration, followed by the roll of thunderous complaint, overwhelming an already stretched array of human services. We can’t see the future as clearly as we thought we …
Surprise, Surprise!
Two weeks into the chaos of the new America there is no end to the dismay and anxiety on social media. But few commentators seemed to have really grasped the obvious bottom line. Here is a short video of two distinguished journalists I really respect that illustrate the point. Somewhere in the history of philosophical …
A Mythology Exercise
I used to think that if something was a myth it could not be true. ‘That’s just a myth!’ Myths were in the realm of fairies in the back garden. But I gradually came to see that myths are powerful stories that influence us. Their ‘Truth’ is of another kind than factual ‘scientific truth’. They …
Hold The World Lightly
A song about openness in a time of sectarianism, racism and exclusion. This song has been sung a couple of times in churches. So I thought I might set up a little home recording studio and have a go at making a demo so others can hear it and use it if they want.So, it’s …
Can A Closing Be An Opening?
We were having a break from the city, visiting a large country town. It was a Thursday afternoon and we noticed the doors to the hall of the Uniting Church were open. So we decided to check it out. A small team of church volunteers had just provided a free hot lunch to a whole …
To Welcome the Stranger
Theologian Miroslav Volf once said that there is no greater injunction in the Bible than to welcome the stranger. So last Friday I was delighted to see a Refugee Week event being held in Rundle Mall, in the centre of Adelaide’s city shopping strip, doing just that! Multicultural Youth SA had set up a hospitality …
A Letter to Verena
It must have been ten years ago when we first met. You had travelled from your native Germany to visit friends in Australia and had dropped in to see me at Flinders University on the recommendation of a mutual friend, a university chaplain in Munich. We sat down and chatted in the newly opened ‘Oasis’ …