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...
Warning: decapitated head alert! Wow, there is a lot going on in our world right now that is negative, sad, heartbreaking, and difficult to take! From rising costs of living and increasing levels of homelessness, the looming likelihood of outright war in the Middle...
As I write this, ANZAC day is being celebrated in one form or another across Australia and New Zealand. The world has lived and is living through many wars, but it is the two World Wars that are in the forefront of my mind today. Quite by coincidence (or...
I’m a bit of a failure as a good Lutheran, I suspect. Unlike most others, my celebration of Easter starts on Good Friday. Not at 6 am on Easter Sunday, when we traditionally celebrate the resurrection of Jesus, but rather at around 3 pm in the afternoon at the...
Many of you will be aware of the call of Indigenous Australians towards ‘truth-telling’ as part of the process towards true reconciliation and restorative justice. Truth telling is not about allocating blame, or pointing the finger, or seeking revenge. It perhaps can...
It’s been six weeks since the Way Forward was adopted at the National Synod. As someone who has been an advocate for the ordination of women for decades and who has listened to the pain and suffering of those who have been called by God but rejected by the LCANZ, I...
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...
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