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 …
Until the Son of God appear
Perhaps you don’t feel inclined to rejoice as we engage with Advent this year. And that’s okay. Advent does not demand joy and celebration, although there’s nothing wrong with expressing happy emotions or accompanying others who are keen to express them. Advent meets us where we are, in every season of life, in whatever mental or emotional frame it finds us. But …
The place where heaven and earth meet
For some time, I have been working with an eclectic group of Christians from various denominations to create a new kind of ecumenical presence in Sydney. It all came to fruition in an impressive launch event at the NSW Parliament on Friday 8 August, with NSW Labor Premier Chris Minns, Liberal Opposition Leader Mark Speakman, …
Vocation and the way of Jesus
Jorge Cocco, "Go and do likewise (the Good Samaritan)." Oil on canvas. In my last post, I discussed the universality of vocation and suggested that vocation is “the place where your deepest gladness meets the world’s deepest need.”[1] Here, I want to focus on “Christian” vocation and the thought of theologian Jürgen Moltmann. Those who follow the …
One coalminer to another
by John McCrindle This is the text of an undated pamphlet written by my maternal grandfather, John Cree McCrindle (1897-1982), probably around the time of his wife Lily's death in 1956, to commend and share his Christian faith with fellow workers in the coal mines in Ipswich, Queensland. Dear Comrades, For the past thirty-four years …
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