Category Archives: Reflection
Reflection: Two and a half days in to the Ration Challenge
Two and a half days in I am not hungry, or feeling deprived at all. But I am feeling a little bored at my menu choices. Continue reading
The Act for Peace Ration Challenge
3,500 g of rice; 280 g of split peas; 250 g of fortified flour; 155 g of fish; 40 g of salt and 125 ml of vegetable oil Continue reading
Reflection: Killing people is wrong
It does not matter if Australia is racist and hypocritical, that still does not justify the judicial murder that is the death penalty. Continue reading
Reflection: Saying good-bye to Nanna
“It is the blight man was born for/It is Margaret you mourn for.” Continue reading
A very short reflection for an ANZAC Day service
Who would imagine, as we see them thus filled with hatred of one another, that they are all of one common stock, all of the same nature, all members of the same human society? Who would recognise brothers, whose Father is in Heaven?’ Continue reading
Competing Claims for Justice: Sexuality and Race at the Eighth Assembly of the Uniting Church in Australia, 1997
Basically, I wrote this article as a way of working through my own pain and anger at what happened in 1997. But the fact that it was published in a peer-reviewed journal shows, I hope, that it is also a conscientious piece of historical writing. And so I offer it to anyone interested in sexuality and the Uniting Church. Continue reading
Reflection: Very, very initial and tentative thoughts on Palestine and Israel
I have returned from Palestine and Israel a more fervent supporter of the two state solution than I was when I entered it. There must be two states in the Holy Land, where Jews, Christians and Muslims can live in peace. There is no alternative. In support of this, countries like Australia much condemn all breaches of international law, whoever commits them. Continue reading
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