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Tuesday, 23 April 2024
| Greg Clarke
Christianity can innovate because the Spirit blows where it wills. How can we move from seeing ourselves primarily as conservers, protectors and defenders to agents and operatives of renewal, in step with the swerving, untameable, invisible and yet powerfully noticeable Spirit of God?
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Sunday, 24 March 2024
| Zachary Pavlou
Cities are a fusion of the material – architecture - and the social – us, their inhabitants. While we might adore mediaeval European cities, dominated as they were by cathedrals, churches and chapels, I’d be naive to recommend recreating these places exactly. But what would a modern city guided by Christian values look like?
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Monday, 12 February 2024
| Chris Brown
In our ‘unhinged' world of seemingly intractable cycles of violence, it’s easy to feel fearful and powerless. Yet in all circumstances, we can choose to open our souls to God's enfolding and the Spirit's life-giving, indwelling presence.
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Friday, 12 January 2024
| John Steward
Peace in the Middle East seems elusive. But a small group of Rwandans, transformed in the midst of their post-genocidal trauma, could perhaps contribute to change in Israel, Palestine and beyond. John Steward shares his and Sandi's story of hope and healing from their time in Rwanda.
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Sunday, 10 December 2023
| Nicole Jameson
The Barbie movie reminds us that our embodiment is essential to our common humanity; when one sex is dehumanised, the dignity of the other is not unaffected. Both men and women are made by God to uniquely reflect his image in their shared humanity.
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Friday, 8 December 2023
| Claire Harvey
As world leaders grapple with high-level climate negotiations at COP28, this wonderful book goes beyond the ‘why’ and ‘what’ of climate action, presenting touching and transformative glimpses of shared responses that highlight the spiritual and relational resources that might just save us from ourselves.
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Sunday, 3 December 2023
| Gary Harch
What does the prayer, 'Give us today our daily bread', mean for us today - in our world of relative abundance, supermarket bread, global interdependence and supply chain vulnerability?
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Monday, 27 November 2023
| Charles Ringma
The walk of faith is more a rocky and windy road than a steady mountain climb. How does each stage of our Christian life shape our response to the social, political, cultural, environmental and religious issues of our day?
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Thursday, 23 November 2023
| Brooke Prentis
It was with deep listening, dadirri, and Job 12:7-10 that I packed my pages and joined a month-long pilgrimage across these lands now called Australia, to listen to First Nations peoples with a focus on Creation Care.
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Monday, 30 October 2023
| Christine Gobius
Racing horses can be pure joy for horse, rider and spectator. But the ethical issues around horse racing are many and are not just limited to the welfare of the horses themselves, to the detriment of the flourishing of both human and nonhuman.
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