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Companions for the journey
Every time I put my four-year-old daughter Genevieve to bed, she asks for a Jupiter story.
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Sometimes you have to laugh. It’s either that or cry!
It’s either that or cry! By Pastor Tom Hoffmann I found myself having a little chuckle upon hearing, COVID restrictions being what they were, that if churches were to present a children’s Christmas play this year, that the children performing would have to socially distance
Read MoreThe asterisk
Pastor Earlier in the year, it was suggested that due to COVID, the 2020 AFL Premiership would forever have an asterisk over it
Read More“You’re on mute!”
Pastor “What were you saying?” “Sorry about that ...
Read MoreAffirmation of 100
I’m a little embarrassed to admit it, but I recently found myself googling to find out what the 100 emoji meant
Read MoreThe organ of emotion
Is it okay to admit to being fully supportive of masking but at the same time being a little bummed out by it?
Read MoreOne step forward two steps back
It was all going so well! Our go-hard-go-early approach to lockdown in Australia was lauded as an example of how it should be done
Read MoreShutting down is easy. Opening up is hard
That’s something that has become abundantly clear to me as we, at St Johns, have started planning to reopen the church for public worship.
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I know that you are scared
A couple of months ago, before one thing and another changed all of our lives, my six-year-old son, Theodore, was excitedly preparing to attend a friend’s birthday party.
Read MoreThe pain of true beauty
One morning, late last year, I was driving in the car with my nine-year-old daughter, Eliza, and my six-year-old boy, Theodore, when a familiar piece of music started playing on the radio
Read MoreVulnerability, conversation and meaning
How do you ponder or explore the meaning of life?
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The intelligible answers of faith
When a perfectly intelligent friend tells you what they’ve recently gleaned from their horoscope, or how they’re planning their pilgrimage to Mecca
Read MoreAn inspiring legacy
At dawn on April 9, 1945, after one-and-a-half years of imprisonment, Dietrich Bonhoeffer – the German pastor and anti-Nazi dissident – was hanged at Flossenbürg concentration camp.
Read MoreA place with that certain something
One day, when I was a teenager, I snuck into an abandoned factory
Read MoreWhy, oh why, can’t we?
Lately I’ve been singing our two-year-old daughter, Genevieve, to sleep
Read MoreLoosen up!
A few months ago, I officiated at a wedding at St Johns Southgate.
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The worst thing to lose and the best thing to have
“To spare oneself from grief at all costs can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness” – Erich Fromm, German-American psychologist and philosopher.
Read MoreCall the midwives!
Last month, my wife gave birth to our fourth child, Hugo.
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Setting a new benchmark
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