Speech for Palm Sunday Rally 2025

Friends, We gather today on the lands of the Gadigal people and pay our respects to the people, cultures and elders past and present. We gather today as people of faith, and people of conscience. On Palm Sunday, Christians everywhere remember the time when Jesus of Nazareth entered Jerusalemโ€”not on a warhorse, but on a …

The problem with atheism

Roman, Entry into Jerusalem, marble, late 4th century. The fool says in his heart, โ€˜Thereโ€™s no God.โ€™โ€ (Psalm 14:1; cf Ps 53:1). Psalm 14 opens with these famous words. No one likes to be called a fool. But these words, as I read them, are neither an attack on a specific person nor a rebuttal of a …