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The Word became flesh, and sailed into our immigration zone... 16 Aug 2013 | 04:45 am
Courier Mail Today we celebrate the feast of Mary, Mother of Jesus. The Gospel today reminds us of her centrality in the fact of the incarnation, and the character of God’s intervention for the poor,...
Let's Fully Welcome Refugees 11 Aug 2013 | 08:49 am
This past week a banner was unfurled on the tower of the Cathedral, with the words "Let's fully welcome refugees". This election season we can speak freely about refugee policy in for all the wrong r...
Holy Saturday: Huddling as the Church Dies 30 Mar 2013 | 05:21 pm
On Holy Saturday not too long ago, I was in regional Australia hoping to participate in the Triduum, or at least Easter celebrations, in a local Anglican Church. My expectations for solemn niceties we...
Second-hand Robes, or: Jesus, Justin and Jorge Maria Get Dressed 24 Mar 2013 | 01:21 pm
[From a sermon for Palm Sunday 2013 for the Canterbury Fellowship at the Chapel of Trinity College] In the last week we have seen the installations of new leaders for the Roman Catholic Church and fo...
The Gospel according to Gash-Bil-Bethuel-Bazda, or: Moses and Monty Python 10 Mar 2013 | 03:04 pm
[from a Sermon on Numbers 21, given at the Trinity College Chapel, Lent 4 2013] Monty Python's The Meaning of Life includes a scene set in a chapel not unlike this one, where a headmaster is reading ...
Ratzinger and Rowan: Leadership and Theology 14 Feb 2013 | 07:59 am
Rowan Williams and Pope Benedict XVI (Eureka Street) When Josef Ratzinger was elected Pope as Benedict XVI in 2005, the western Christian world found itself in the remarkable position of having both ...
Atonement: Richard III, Shakespeare, and the King James Bible 7 Feb 2013 | 04:58 pm
The discovery of the body of Richard III has attracted much attention and reminded us of a controversial figure of English history. Richard was the proverbial "bad uncle", depicted in much of history-...
Atonement as Paschal Victory: Sacrifice in Athanasius of Alexandria 4 Feb 2013 | 06:46 am
The long life of Athanasius of Alexandria (c.296-373) spanned a period of real change in experience and practice of sacrifice. Growing up before Constantine's promotion of Christianity as a quasi-stat...
The End of the World as We Know It: The Mayan Apocalypse, Newtown, and T. S. Eliot 23 Dec 2012 | 01:44 pm
[Sermon for Advent IV 2012, Holy Trinity East Melbourne] So - apparently it's not the end of the world after all. The Mayans - or rather some dodgy interpreters of ancient Mayan texts - had that wron...
Spouses, Slaves and Submission: Reading Ephesians in the 21st Century 8 Sep 2012 | 11:56 am
Two Sundays ago many Christians heard a passage from the Letter to the Ephesians which opens the door to the very different world in which the Church first emerged: Be subject to one another out of r...
