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A New Creation

I am blessed to live in a very beautiful and still quite wild and remote part of the world on the south coast of Western Australia in...

A Living Sacrifice

As the world struggles to visualise and commit to a way of living that will foster abundance, peace, justice and respect for all life, we...

Teacher help me to See

This week we have a story that is both about healing, and it is about faith leading to sight that is physical and social and spiritual...

To Be Servant of All

This text, like all the texts we have considered in the last few weeks, is really quite shocking in number of ways: Jesus is explaining...

Your Money or Your Life!

Jesus loves the young man who is being asked to give up everything in order to follow and the young man is very sad when he feels unable...

Whoever is Not Against You is For You

Jesus, as remembered by Mark’s gospel, seems to delight in scandalising us by who is included and valued by God. (Revised Common...

Becoming Vulnerable

Jesus seems to delight in turning everything upside down! Do you want to become important? Then become as vulnerable and unimportant as...

Who Do You Say that I Am?

This week we learn, with and through Peter and the disciples, the true identity of Jesus the Holy One of God, or Messiah. And this...

The Good News is for All

It seems that living into the larger more inclusive heart and mind of God’s vision is not easy and that, dare we say it, even Jesus...