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March: The Way of Dying and Rising

March 1 (Lent 2) Genesis 12:1-4a, Psalm 121, Romans 4:1-5, 13-17 John 3:1-17 The season of Lent began with the temptations of Jesus in the wilderness. Henry Nouwen speaks of how Jesus entered solitude in the wilderness (last week’s Gospel reading) and was tempted with the 3 compulsions of the world: To be relevant – […]

Rev. Geoff Stevenson 28 February 2026

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Celebrating Women’s History Month with Gift of First Ever Full-Length Defence of Women’s Ministry

The first ever full-length defence of women’s church leadership has been republished in modern English as part of Women’s History Month. Women’s Speaking Justified was written in 1666 by Quaker co-founder Margaret Fell whilst jailed for her beliefs in Lancaster. She used the time to work through the entire Bible, showing how there are examples […]

Ruby Cumming 25 February 2026

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Colonisation on Pandora

Warning: This article contains spoilers for Avatar, Avatar: The Way of Waterand Avatar: Fire and Ash. Avatar: Fire and Ash, the third instalment in James Cameron’s hugely successful Avatar franchise, is wrapping up its in-theatre run. If you have missed it on the big screen, you will be able to watch it on Disney+ in […]

Katherine Grocott 25 February 2026

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Carrying Your Cross Today

Jesus says in the Gospel of Luke 9:23, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me.” The verse is direct. If you want to follow him, you deny yourself. You take up your cross. You do it daily. There is no gap between belief and […]

Adrian Drayton 24 February 2026

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American Dictatorship

Why the United States Has Slipped into Authoritarianism and May Soon Be a Dictatorship, and What Americans and the International Community Can Do About It A View from the Outside I’m an Australian. I wrote this essay from the other side of the Pacific, watching events in the United States with the same mixture of […]

Graham Joseph Hill 23 February 2026

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With Love to the World turns 50

Fifty years ago, in a suburban church in Sydney, a group of Methodist parishioners and two theological college lecturers gave birth to a unique resource. With Love to the World, a daily Bible reading resource, was the brainchild of Bob Maddox and Gordon Dicker, teachers at United Theological College in Sydney. Willing volunteers from the […]

Rev. Dr John Squires 18 February 2026

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The Jesus Way

A Life of Radical Love in a World of Self-Interest People of the Way In the book of Acts, before the early Christians were ever called “Christians,” they were known by a simpler, more potent name: people of the Way. This designation, appearing in Acts 9:1–4 as Saul breathes murderous threats against the disciples, reveals something […]

Graham Joseph Hill 18 February 2026

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A Simple Mindset Shift That Changes Everything

Book Review: The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins There’s something refreshing about a self-help concept that doesn’t ask you to overhaul your entire life, wake up at 5am, or manifest your way into emotional stability. Mel Robbins’ The Let Them Theory offers something far simpler and arguably far more powerful: the idea that peace […]

Aditee Vora 17 February 2026

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When Forgiveness Costs Everything: Revisiting The Mission 40 Years On

“The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.” John 1: 5 In 1986, The Mission arrived with the confidence of a prestige epic: sweeping landscapes, Ennio Morricone’s aching score, Robert De Niro hauling a sack of armour up a cliff in penance, the searing image of a martyr being sent over a […]

Adrian Drayton 16 February 2026

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The Pioneer of Probability Theory

Review: Blaise Pascal: The Man Who Made the Modern World, Graham Tomlin, Hodder Seventeenth-century polymath Blaise Pascal is now most famous for his thought experiment dubbed ‘the Wager’, whereby he argues that it’s a good bet to have faith in God and potentially avoid eternity in Hell, rather than bet on there being no afterlife. […]

Nick Mattiske 13 February 2026

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Leaning Into Lent

This year Lent begins on 18 February. It is one of those times in the Christian calendar that people know is about giving something up. But Lent is also the season that asks you to stop pretending that faith is effortless. It sits in the church calendar as a long stretch of days that resist […]

Adrian Drayton 11 February 2026

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Autosanctity

The Sacralization of Self in a Supposedly Secular Age In 2015, a Nobel Prize-winning biochemist named Tim Hunt attended a conference in South Korea. During a toast at a luncheon, he made an ill-judged attempt at self-deprecating humor about women in laboratories. Within hours, his remarks had been tweeted, condemned, and amplified worldwide. Within days, […]

Graham Joseph Hill 10 February 2026

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Bringing Emotional Intelligence to the Family Table

Family is often where we first learn how to speak, how to listen, and how to belong. And yet, it is also where communication can become the most emotionally complicated. With friends, colleagues, even strangers, we can often express ourselves clearly. But with family, a simple conversation can feel loaded. Suddenly, we are no longer […]

Aditee Vora 9 February 2026

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In Cairn, You Are The Mountain

Review: Cairn There’s a scene midway through Cairn, the mountain-climbing epic from independent developer The Game Bakers, where main character Aava speaks with another climber about what pushes her to keep climbing. In her words, during moments of beauty and solitude, when she stands alone on a peak she has scaled, it’s not just that […]

James O'Connor 8 February 2026

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A Stroll Through Sydney’s Layers

Review: Walking Sydney: Fifteen Walks with a City’s Writers, Belinda Castles, Newsouth When we lived in Balmain years ago, my wife and I would walk from Gladstone Park on Darling St, over the hill and along past the container port, winding through streets of terraces and the occasional, larger colonial mansion, up old steps only […]

Nick Mattiske 5 February 2026

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Is This Thing On?: Connection, Marriage and Comedy

I have been on a journey towards re-embracing my creative pursuits in a way that doesn’t force them into the box of monetisation and functional utility. In the past I have tried so hard to ﬁnd a way to reshape my passions into something I could meaningfully call “work” or something productive, when in actuality […]

Jonty Cornford 4 February 2026

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March: The Way of Dying and Rising

Celebrating Women’s History Month with Gift of First Ever Full-Length Defence of Women’s Ministry

Colonisation on Pandora

Carrying Your Cross Today

American Dictatorship

With Love to the World turns 50

The Jesus Way

A Simple Mindset Shift That Changes Everything

When Forgiveness Costs Everything: Revisiting The Mission 40 Years On

The Pioneer of Probability Theory

Leaning Into Lent

Autosanctity

Bringing Emotional Intelligence to the Family Table

In Cairn, You Are The Mountain

A Stroll Through Sydney’s Layers

Is This Thing On?: Connection, Marriage and Comedy

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