The essential theme of today’s Gospel reading is unity – to be one with each other as Jesus was one with God.  This morning I want to suggest a values rather than text-book meaning for these puzzling words. Church in my younger days was more formal, more doctrinally passionate than it is for most of […]

She was just one more street girl who overdosed. While she worked the streets her only friends and supporters were a small group of street workers, community carers, a scattering of nuns and members of our street café. At death, her family finally owned her and arranged a lavish funeral in a provincial cathedral. None […]

The journey from one bush station homestead to the next took longer than I anticipated – and in any case I was not expected till the morning.  So, there was no alternative but to sleep by the side of the road.   I found a clear patch away from the possibility of scattered dust or stones […]

Events in the news have triggered my reflections on how I needed to shape today’s reading from John’s Gospel. It is hard to step aside from the stories of terror and political failure of nerve, especially to look at a Bible passage that on the surface seems almost trivial by comparison. The longer I reflected […]