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Shutting 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.
Read MoreLove your enemies. A modern parable.
Ingrid’s twin brother, Lukas, died last year.
Read MoreThe authoritative voice
How many people have authority over you? How many did you count?
Read MoreBaubles and bollards
The beginning of the festive season in Melbourne saw the erection of a large abstract Christmas tree at Federation Square.
Read MoreRoutine observations
True story. Every morning, before dawn, an old man waits on the corner for another old man to meet him.
Read MoreReligion: It ain’t sexy. Or is it?
From what I’ve observed, people tend to imagine Christians as being prudish and uptight when it comes to sex
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Hoardings up on Riverside Square
Noisy neighbours
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