the jungle booklet: reflections on a trip to india
Back in October I spent 16 days travelling around India with a couple of friends/co-workers visiting some of TEAR Australia’s partner projects. While that trip occurred a couple of months ago, I’ve...
View Articlea (recovering) racist’s reading of matthew 15:21–28
It’s been a while since I last blogged, I’ve been having a bit of an indefinite break. I plan to blog soon about some of the reasons for this, which is ironic I suppose. Enjoying a moment with Rabbi...
View Articlebudgetary nihilism: a response to the deferral of foreign aid
Yesterday I was privileged enough to have an article of mine appear on the ABC Religion and Ethics website. The article is entitled Budgetary nihilism: Deferring foreign aid signals a distorted moral...
View Articlethe church as alternative politic and way of life
The following is a sermon I preached in my community on Sunday 28 July, 2013. I have been asked by quite a few people to post it, so here it is. The first two paragraphs of this written version of the...
View Articlea prayer for those within empire
Last weekend I ran an event for TEAR Australia called “Come Out, My People!”: Learning to Journey Out of Empire. It featured, among others, my friends Wes Howard-Brook and Sue Ferguson Johnson speaking...
View Articlea speech on asylum seekers and #lovemakesaway
The following is a short speech I was invited to give at a rally for asylum seekers on June 21, 2014. I was asked to represent #LoveMakesAWay, whose recent acts of civil disobedience have received...
View ArticleSanctuary—Christendom Again? Some Reflections
Last week church leaders all over Australia began to offer sanctuary in their church buildings to 267 people seeking asylum whom the government is planning to deport to the detention centre on Nauru....
View ArticleWhat makes free speech free?
Some conservative politicians, news outlets and think tanks have, for some time, been pushing for the reform or repeal of Section 18C of the Discrimination Act. The Institute of Public Affairs, for...
View ArticlePresident Trump: It’s Not That Surprising
It seems like many people are surprised that Trump has secured the Presidency. I’m surprised at how surprised people actually are. Did the elite (I’m probably one) really misjudge so badly the...
View ArticleWhat Christians Mean By Freedom
This week’s lectionary readings include Galatians 5 in which Paul states that, “For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.” It is, at first...
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