A sermon for Good Friday Can reading a book change your life? Harvard University Professor David Damrosch tells this story from his young adulthood: Early in the fall semester, I saw a sign for an audition that night for a production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s operetta Trial by Jury, and I wanted to try out for the …
Jesus the prophet
Our Gospel reading today tells the story of the “triumphal entry” of Jesus into Jerusalem (cf kZec 9:9), riding a donkey, welcomed by cheering crowds, just one week before his violent death. It’s the first of three symbolic acts in Matthew 21. This is the beginning of Passover Week: Jesus enters Jerusalem, the holy City of …
The light of the kingdom
On Thursday, the nation stopped to commemorate a National Day of Mourning for the victims of the Bondi terrorist attack. Today, in solidarity with Indigenous followers of Jesus, we pause to honour another Day of Mourning, reflecting on the dispossession and ongoing injustices experienced by Australia’s First Peoples, acknowledging our shared history, and renewing our …
The light of the world
There are times in life when you really need a light. Driving home from Brisbane through last night’s intense rainstorms, as an east coast low sat stationery over the central coast, I was increasingly grateful for my own car’s headlights, the hazard lights of other cars, and those little “cat’s eyes” embedded in the motorway, as …
The light of a star
We may have packed away our tinsel and Christmas trees for another year, but the Christmas story doesn’t end with Christmas Day. The Gospel of Matthew tells us that “After Jesus was born … wise men from the east arrived in Jerusalem, saying, ‘Where is he who has been born king of the Jews? For …
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