Two little words can bring me to know I can't, despair towards a pride in all that I can do those little words so telling the if-then proposition of law disguised as grace for when I try so very hard I always fall up short another word is needed to reach into my heart...
As a latecomer to this group, I do not know if the following resource (poem or video) has been previously shared. I suspect that it has. For someone like me, a Pastor of the LCANZ, every time I watch it I am concurrently filled with sadness at the incompleteness of my...
Welcome to the watering hole, a place for meeting Jesus, where the water of life revives thirsting souls, where there’s restoration for crushed people, and lives are made whole by Jesus’ transforming love and grounded in grace! Where Jesus’ love really does come to...
“When I was in prison, you visited me". Matt. 25.43. As I entered the corrections forensic facility on Easter Sunday, I was startled by a huge (to me, anyway!) young Croatian Catholic man calling out: “Thank the Lord - the Church has remembered me!" This underlined...
Fast forward several years — I’d returned to my home town and congregation after living away. I didn’t know either of the pastors very well. Women’s ordination failed to get the right number of votes again and I was baffled. I wrote an email to the pastors about it...
I have a problem with the label ‘progressive’. It suggests being more concerned with progress over scripture when in my experience, the opposite is true. It is the ‘progressive’ Christians who are the most committed to understanding scripture through vigorous study of...
1st General Convention of Synod, Jerusalem, Year of our Lord 50 “It is a full agenda for this historic general convention of synod. Representatives from Judea to Antioch, as well as from the Jerusalem hosts, are in attendance to discuss matters including the...
It was a privilege to be able to document the following story for one of our most faithful supporters of gender equity and the ordination of women in the church – and also both heartbreaking and inspirational. This amazing woman is as steadfast in her faith and...
I am not used to writing my thoughts anywhere, perhaps other than in cards for special occasions. My response to my thinking is usually in actions rather than words. When I feel passionately about something it is usually regarding a situation where I see room for...
We are called to be faithful; to faithfully follow our Lord. But what does one do when human structures and rules mean that might not be possible? I am facing a dilemma. If I stay in the LCANZ I have few options and no opportunity to explore a call into ministry. Yes,...
In silence groans caught up in prayer we plead for those we love not from the joyless stance of Judas returning to consciousness after betraying his deepest self but from an open-heart broken and gifted able to question and wonder hopeful in uncertainty free to...
There is a lot of talk about our need for resilience these days. I don’t know about you, but it conjures up for me, images of having to try harder, be braver, and have more positive thoughts, the latter of which has always been difficult for me. I’m more likely to cry...
The quick and easy way to end disputes. . .or maybe not. One of the great pleasures in life for some of us is a good game of Scrabble or – my favourite – Upwords. A dear Aunty of mine and I are keen players, and the main house rule is about whether a word can be...
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