Reflection

What has formed you? What matters to you most and how did you acquire these beliefs and commitments? This coming week is Refugee Week, and the theme for this year is … Read more

Living Presence, beyond all names,Overflowing with creative and redeeming energy,Continually giving life, bearing pain, making love,Draw us ever closer in your mysterious Presence,For in you is our destiny and delight,Lover, … Read more

This weekend we celebrate Pentecost; one of the greatest feast days of the Church year. It is a day when we commemorate a great reversal. Instead of the unifying and … Read more

Ascension Day  by Malcolm Guite We saw his light break through the cloud of gloryWhilst we were rooted still in time and placeAs earth became a part of Heaven’s storyAnd … Read more

Do you ever find yourself wondering if we expect too little of one another? I know I have wondered this as I witnessed some of the aggressive or disrespectful behaviour from … Read more

This next week is the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Australia. It is likely there will be reports of this synod in the media and that not all … Read more

In the silence of death we lost the wordand dark-shuttered days filled with empty sighs;while, out of our sight, the walls of hell stirredand long-abandoned eyes began to rise.Night voices … Read more

On this Easter morning, let us look again at the lives we have been so generously given and let us let fall away the useless baggage that we carry – … Read more

Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.  Luke 23:34 Father forgive, and so forgiveness flows;Flows from the very wound our hatred makes,Flows through the taunts, … Read more