September 17 is Hildegard’s liturgical feast day, when we remember this remarkable woman: abbess, artist, author, composer, mystic, pharm...

Luke 11:42-46 is our midweek Gospel reading. But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and herbs of all kinds, and neglect ju...

"Come to me, all you that are weary and carrying heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me; ... an...

Then he looked up at his disciples and said: Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God. ‘Blessed are you who are hung...

‘Unless a grain of wheat dies … it remains but a single grain; but if it dies it bears much fruit’ (John 12:24) I have mixed feelings ab...

I missed Clare of Assisi last week, and that’s a pity. She is a reminder that Jesus draws us to a bigger life, and better way of being, a...

Again this week, the mid-week Gospel reading (Matthew 8:23-27), is similar to last Sunday’s Gospel. Jesus and the disciples in a bo...

Here we are mid-week and we repeat the story from last Sunday! This is Matthew’s second telling of the feeding of the many. Matthew and M...

Remembering Mary and Martha is appropriate mid-week. If Sunday is a day of attentiveness ‘choosing the better way,’ then at the midweek p...

It’s good to be back from two week’s leave! Preferring not to take public transport I enjoyed listening to the radio along the way. One ...

The first of July is a day of great celebration for the church of the Torres Strait. It’s the date of the arrival of Christian missionar...

One of the many joys I find about having grandchildren is that I can again ‘playact;’ I can enter roles that evoke different characters, ...

Our family has spent some time in recent years looking into our family tree. We’ve discovered convicts, struggle, success and tragedy. Li...

In the face of current turmoil and just action in relation to black deaths in custody, it helps to recall some history of just action, an...

What sort of a community will we be after returning from this period of COVID isolation? It will take some while and we may not get back ...

The Feast of the Ascension, Pivotal Time and Our Daily Faith (Luke 24:50-53; Acts 1:3-13) We are probably used to seeing icons that depic...

I suspect that, from time to time, we all over-spiritualise our faith, we think of it as some ideal, something other than life in our wor...

It’s easy to forget we live post-Resurrection. Life overtakes our faith, our spirituality. We have deadlines, we have children to get sch...

There is an ancient story, perhaps told by desert mothers and father, of a young man seeking treasure. He has heard rumours of where this...

Not too long ago, my eleven-year-old grandson Oliver insisted on using a decrepit old fishing lure he’d just found near our fishing...