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In a world of constant noise and distraction, we often find ourselves practising self-care, navigating relationships and making important life decisions while living at high speed. Who am I becoming? Why am I anxious? What should I do about my career? Why did I do that? What do I actually believe? Amid the pressure, one …
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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 …
George Fox (b. July 1624, d. 13 January 1691), the English dissenter and founder of the Religious Society of Friends (commonly known as the Quakers), was one of the most creative and disruptive figures in post-Reformation church history. Emerging from the turbulence of seventeenth-century England with its civil war and sectarian ferment, Fox’s life and teaching …
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 …
PART 2 Dilexit nos was the first post-Vatican II papal encyclical dedicated to the Sacred Heart, a central feature of private Catholic devotion. Released by the late Pope Francis (1936-2025) in October 2024, Dilexit nos sets forth philosophical, biblical and doctrinal aspects of the Sacred Heart, discusses the Sacred Heart tradition in the writings of Catholic mystics, and …
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