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Reflection: Called to make peace
Perhaps this year, 2020, is the year when comfortable middle-class Australians like me are most aware that the grass withers and the flowers fade and that we, human beings, are grass. Continue reading
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Tagged Advent, Advent 2, Isaiah, Isaiah 40:1-11, Isaiah 85: 1-2 8-13, Mark 1:1-8, Peace
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Reflection for ANZAC Day
Let us use ANZAC Day to commit ourselves to be agents of reconciliation. Continue reading
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Tagged ANZAC Day, crusades, Holy War, Peace, reconciliation, Religion, World War One
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Sermon: Christmas Day
Let’s remember those ‘copping the hypocrisy, racism and hate’; those abused by church leaders; LGBTIQ teachers and students at religious schools. Let’s remember that in each one of these people we see Jesus’ face. Continue reading
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Tagged Christmas, Christmas Day, Hope, Joy, love, Maureen Watson, Peace
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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
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Tagged Armistice, Peace, Remembrance Day, World War One, World War Two
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Sermon: Responding to the American Presidential Election
But what I have never done before is talked about a particular politician. That’s the line I’m crossing today. Today I’m going to talk about the election of Donald Trump as the next President of the United States. Continue reading
Posted in Political Activism, Sermons
Tagged Donald Trump, Isaiah 65:17-25, Justice, new creation, Peace, Politics, Year of Luke
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Sermon: Being at peace with God and one another
Sermon for Williamstown 3rd of April 2016 John 20:19-31 The picture on the screen is Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio’s The Incredulity of Saint Thomas, painted in 1602. I’m not sure whether you can see it clearly enough, but in the painting … Continue reading
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Tagged Easter 2, Holy Spirit, John 20:19-31, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Peace, Saint Thomas
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Sermon: How can we celebrate Advent in a world without Peace
There are many, many other places around the world where an absence of conflict is misnamed ‘peace’. I’m reminded of a very famous quote from the first-century Roman historian Tacitus’ history of Rome’s conquest of Scotland. Tacitus writes a rousing speech that he puts into the mouth of the British leader, Calgacus, in which he says of the Romans: ‘They make a desert and call it peace.’ Continue reading
