Reflection of the Week - 8th March 2022
For millennia, God’s voice echoes the call to live gently on the earth, with righteous justice and peace-filled relationships.
New Times - Faith
Reflection of the Week - 1st March 2022
It’s only when we find ourselves in God, and live and see through God’s eyes that ‘everything belongs.’
Reflection of the Week - 22nd February 2022
Trust and hope are two words we have heard a great deal in recent times, and I am sure that they will be priority words in the election seasons ahead.
Reflection of the Week - 15th February 2022
The Christian belief in the Trinity says that God is absolute relatedness. God is our word for the ultimate ecosystem that holds all things in positive relationship (see Colossians 1:17).
Reflection of the Week - 8th February 2022
We can fully understand Simon’s point of view (Luke 5:1-11) – he has been out all night and is completely exhausted, and Jesus asks him to put out into the deep water and give it a go!
Reflection of the Week - 1st February 2022
Chosen and known, loved and understood. Before we even enter this world, we are cherished by God. Such good news!
Reflection of the Week - 25th January 2022
The absolute religious genius of Jesus is that he utterly refuses all debt codes, purity codes, religious quarantines, and the searching for sinners. He refuses the very starting point of historic religions. He refuses to divide the world into the pure and the impure, much to the chagrin of almost everybody—then and now.
Reflection of the Week - 21st December 2021
Author and Center for Action and Contemplation teacher Brian McLaren understands Jesus’ mother Mary as an example for all of us to find a larger hope by surrendering our lives to God. Here he comments on Luke’s Gospel and offers an Advent practice inspired by Mary ...
Reflection of the Week - 14th December 2021
Prayer is in many ways the criterion of Christian life.
Reflection of the Week - 7th December 2021
The theological virtue of hope keeps the field of life wide open and especially open to grace and to a future created by God rather than ourselves.
Reflection of the Week - 30 November 2021
Some of the most exciting and fruitful thought in recent theology can be described as the ‘turn toward participation.’
Reflection of the Week - 23 November 2021
What the ego hates more than anything else is to change—even when the present situation is not working or is horrible.
Reflection of the Week - 16 November 2021
Jesus’ message of ‘full and final participation’ was periodically enjoyed and taught by many unknown saints and mystics. It must be admitted, though, that the vast majority of Christians made Christianity into a set of morals and rituals instead of an all-embracing mysticism of the present moment.
Reflection of the Week - 9 November 2021
Social Influencers are not a new phenomenon. Even Jesus outed ‘Influencers’ in his time, even the ‘teachers of the Law.’
Reflection of the Week - 2 November 2021
On a more negative side, Paul says, ‘You’re all sinners’ (Romans 3:23), ‘You’re slaves to the flesh’ (Romans 6:20), and ‘Your sinful passions bring death,’ (Romans 7:5).
Reflection of the Week - 26 October 2021
In the midst of confusion, and the bustling and babbling of life around me, I, too, have cried out in anxiety, then courage, seeking direction, connection, and help.
Reflection of the Week - 19 October 2021
In Mark 10:35-45, James and John’s sense of entitlement seems quite extraordinary. They may have listened to Jesus’ teachings, but not ‘heard’ the truth deep in their souls.
Reflection of the Week - 12 October 2021
Paul uses several different words for love, but for the Great Love we fall into, the Great Self with the big S, the God Self, he uses the word ‘agape.’
Reflection of the Week - 5 October 2021
Why are some times better than others? Why do some yearn for the ‘good old days’ or look forward to the ‘green pastures’ that lie ahead? Isn’t today enough?
A Resilient Theology
Recently, Kirsty Bucknell, an organisational psychologist and doctoral student at Macquarie University, released some of her and her colleagues’ research on resilience.[1] As part of it they surveyed 277 ‘ministry workers’ from across Australia measuring the relationship between self-reflection, insight, ruminations, resilience and well-being.