a collect – a plea, a prayer
I love the ‘collect’ form of prayer whose task is terse and brief.
short prayers in a time of virus
‘collects’ – a form of short prayer which addresses an aspect of the Divine and makes a request or observation.
Meeting beauty and rubbish
How a long walk helped me understand our rubbish problem published in The Saturday Age December 28, 2019 Early this year I took a four-day hike in South East Tasmania. The Three Capes track took four and a half years to make with the combined care, skill and artistry of a tribe of rangers, scientists, …
Encountering Extinction Rebellion
When this composed, silver-haired woman tells us that for the last three days they’ve been protesting with Extinction Rebellion in Melbourne, our eyebrows lift.
Paul Kelly and the lighthouse in the sky
At a gathering recently I heard a rendition of Paul Kelly’s song “Meet Me In The Middle Of The Air”.
Not just a boy from the bush
https://crosslight.org.au/2019/08/23/wesley-trigg-not-just-a-boy-from-the-bush/published in Crosslight magazine Wesley Trigg and his wife Una are waiting in the foyer at Carnsworth Uniting Agewell in the Melbourne suburb of Kew. I recognise their signature neatness and punctuality. The retired minister and teacher are both in their nineties. We have previously been members of the same congregation. Amongst that casual throng …
It’s here! Tender, stories that lean into kindness
‘Tender’ brings together 60 stories Julie Perrin has written in one lovely-to-hold-in-your-hand book.
Accompanying – a new story in Eureka Street
I wrote this piece after hearing Leigh Sales interviewed at Adelaide Writers Week last month. I loved her book, ‘Any Ordinary Day’ and was captured again by the way she spoke it. Most of all the surprising impact a Jesuit priest called Steve Sinn had on her understanding of the task of ‘accompanying’. Sales had …
Pádraig Ó Tuama On Being podcast
I’m so delighted to know this wonderful human, pictured here at a house concert early this year. You can listen Pádraig here on the On Being podcast. In a few weeks he will be in Melbourne again, at Sacred Edge in Queenscliff May 3-5, doing storytelling seminar and workshop at the Centre for Theology and …