Author Archives: Avril Hannah-Jones
Reflection: The centenary of the Armistice
“War is an ancient imposter, but none of his masks and smiles and gallant trumpets can any longer delude us …” Continue reading
Praying for Melbourne
I have no words for my sadness at yesterday’s attack on Melbourne and particularly the death of Sisto Malaspina. So I offer again the prayer I wrote the last time Bourke Street was attacked. May God be with us all.
Sermon: For all the saints
Living a holy life, again luckily for us, doesn’t mean being dour, stern and strict. For the Prophet Isaiah a life of holiness culminates in end-time feasting; accepting from God a feast of rich food, a feast of well-matured wines, of rich food filled with marrow, of well-matured wines strained clear. Continue reading
Sermon: Don’t accept injustice (Part 3)
The Book of Job is absolutely anti-prosperity gospel. The good are not always rewarded; the bad are not always punished. When people suffer and cry out to God our best response is not to defend God and tell them that God has a plan. Continue reading
Sermon: Don’t accept injustice (Part 2)
Job complains and accuses God of wrongdoing, but he does that because he believes in a God of justice. Continue reading
Sermon: Don’t accept injustice!
The other point I want to make is that Job’s wife is a hero. Continue reading
Sermon: The church is called to pray
In recent years as the horrors of the Royal Commission have educated us about the dangers of the wrong sort of touch we have become a little scared of the right sort of touch. Continue reading
Sermon for Police Remembrance Sunday
If we curse people with the same mouth with which we bless God, we are as weirdly unnatural as a fig tree that grows olives. Continue reading
Sermon: We ALL make mistakes
Knight should have acted with the gentleness born of wisdom and apologised, rather than doubling-down and attacking those who criticised it. To repeat what James writes, ‘all of us make many mistakes’. Continue reading
Letter to the Sunday Age
My letter was edited for space, so here is the full thing. ‘Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father,’ says the letter attributed to James, the brother of Jesus, ‘is this: to care for orphans and widows … Continue reading
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