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Gaza Peace Pilgrims..

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 26, 2024 11:00


Gaza Peace Pilgrims..pick up the cross and walk. What does it mean to follow Jesus - is to embrace a life of suffering or is it to stand with all those who fight with all they have- for love

Advent 1 2023

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 4, 2023 10:36


What does it mean to have revolutionary patience when the world is falling apart: Holding Gaza and the God at the Monastery.

Climate strikes and false peace

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 21, 2023 1:40


Why I'm not clapping my hands with joy about the Tuvalu visas and what it means to say no to a false peace. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTrM0xN6PrI

All Souls Sunday

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 21, 2023 11:44


What would it be like to welcome grief in, to make a small bed for it and to know it would always be with you? What would it be like to actually believe that this life is not all there is...?

Fires, Floods, The Voice and Israel

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 14, 2023 11:28


The story of falling down before false idols (golden calves, racist lies, capitalist cons) is as old as time...So where do we go from here, and what sort of God do we really believe in?

Wilderness Sunday: Glaciers and God

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 24, 2023 11:28


The Thwaites Glacier is known as the Doomsday Glacier because it is melting at such a rapid rate and is as big as a small country. How do we turn towards what scares us...rather than away in the comfort of cynical collapse?

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Big tree down in the forest- The Tarkine, The Father and Faith

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 6, 2023 10:44


A 3 meter tree is felled in the Tarkine. St Paul recognises that the Holy Spirit is the one in whom we live and move and have our being... and our hunger for The Father (and for elders) is ever with us...

Walking On Water And Impossible Things

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 14, 2023 10:44


We all do impossible things..every single day. Jesus invites us to walk on water..do you have the courage to take the hand of those around you and dance on the waves together?

A sower, a seed, the hottest day and Rachel Carson

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 16, 2023 11:28


Here in Naarm it's the bleak midwinter but all over the world we have reached a global temperature of 17 degrees. How can we be the reception soil that grows a people prepared to fight for our future?

Fertility - God and the Oak Grove and what gets in the way of you leaping up?

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 22, 2023 11:24


Fertility - God and the Oak Grove and what gets in the way of you leaping up? by Alexandra Sangster

Ascension Day 2023

Play Episode Listen Later May 22, 2023 14:27


A truck collides with a bus. Jesus rises..up, up, up. Its Ascension Day again and we are asking the big questions..where is God when the world goes dark?

Meditation on Hope: Anzac Day and the Road to Emmaus

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 20, 2023 14:27


Our government is spending big arming for war with nuclear submarines. Have we lost hope in peace? And how can HOPE be restored?

Palm Sunday 2023

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 2, 2023 8:51


Making radical change is hard but we all have to do it..stepping through the many thresholds of our lives..today Jesus rides through the Beautiful Gate and nothing can ever be the same again...what gateway will you step through this Easter?

Alex Podcast - It Was A Dark And Stormy Night

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 15, 2023 10:24


The Man. Born Blind: Intergenerational Trauma and new ending to an old tale... John 9: 1 - 41

Transfiguration Feb 2023

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 21, 2023 7:14


Transfiguration doesn't just happen...You have to climb the mountain first...and moments shot through with glory..they are all around us..in Newtown, in a Bondi Mall, in St Kilda and in your heart

Episode 1 - Crow - Aug 2020

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 14, 2023 11:28


Episode 1 - Crow - Aug 2020 by Alexandra Sangster

Salt and Adani and the Reckoning (Biggest con in corporate history)

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 5, 2023 11:28


What is the cost of being the Salt for the world? Where do you see everyday examples of Salt in action? And what does it mean to hold the powerful to account...

Cassius Turvey, his Mum and the Christ Child: Christmas Day 2023 Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 23, 2022 12:16


Where did you experience the incarnation this year? When where the moments were God broke thru and made a manger in your heart?

Anzac Day and the Shepherd

Play Episode Listen Later May 3, 2021 8:53


A Royal Commission has finally been announced into suicide amongst ADF soldiers and veterans. The shepherd god has always been a political metaphor..what is it calling us towards today...?

God of the Rainbow: First UCA Transgender Minister inducted

Play Episode Listen Later May 3, 2021 9:19


The Ethiopian Eunuch is probably our first LGBQTI convert...yet over 2000 years later some in our church still struggle to welcome diversity. Acts 8:26-40

2020 Xmas Sermon

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 25, 2021 7:40


How big is your stable?

Easter Sunday

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 15, 2020 9:21


The Angel says: Do not be afraid and yet we live in terrifying times How can we believe in resurrection when we are still hiding in the tomb?

Good Friday

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 15, 2020 9:04


This is not a Good Day, this is not a day where we get to race from the tomb and meet our loved one on the road. This is a day of doing the work of grieving...

Corona: The highway man of fear and the casual racism is as old as a woman standing alone at a well.

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2020 10:47


The Woman at the Well stands in isolation and Jesus stands with her. How can we be present to each other during this pandemic, not give in to tribal prejudice and love one another across the borders of quarantine?

Transfiguration: The murder of Hannah Baxter and her children and the telling of the truth.

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2020 10:41


The murder of Hannah Baxter and the outrage at police and media response and the subsequent standing down of a leading Queensland policeman shows that Transfiguration: radical change and truth shining through.. is happening all around us

Blessed are the Owl and the Lyrebird: Beatitudes today

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 31, 2020 8:34


Thousands of animals and birds are facing extinction because of the fires. And so we mourn...does this mean we are blessed?

The elevator pitch and the bushfire spin.

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 14, 2020 10:35


The Australian Goverment has run with the apathy mandate given to it by the Australian voters...maybe the Bushfires will wake us up.

Aboriginal boy locked up, naked. Man found in tombs, naked......

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 24, 2019 12:03


We all know the story of the man filled with brokenness, hiding in the graveyard...thank god we don't treat people like that anymore...do we...?

A New Heaven And A New Earth: Bob Hawke and the lighthouse.

Play Episode Listen Later May 22, 2019 9:58


Post election we are left standing on the edge of possibility...Bob Hawke was a lighthouse leader who helped save the Tarkine..what will our new PM do? Every age needs lighthouse leaders...and each of us have a prat to play in the creation of a new heaven and a new earth...

Good Spirit Easter

Play Episode Listen Later May 22, 2019 13:08


Come listen to Archie Roach and the Whale Man as they live out a the story of the light in the dark. Know what it is to surge up from below.... and find out how the very earth needs resurrection.

I Was Going Too Talk To You Today About Ash

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 14, 2019 11:04


Two wee boys sitting on a couch in NZ, losing their lives to hatred. The recognition that we are all but dust and ashes. And grace. Always grace.

A Few Weeks Ago I Had The Honour Of Presiding At A Funeral

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 14, 2019 11:18


When was the last time someone did a beautiful thing for you? When did you last do something beautiful for the other....? A story of a swagman, a sister and love.

There Are Only Two Feelings: Love and Fear and New Zealand

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 14, 2019 14:21


How do we tell a story of light when the darkness rises up with such overwhelming force.....White supremacy and the power of love.

Im Thinking About Light Now: Transfiguration and George Pell

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 15, 2019 14:28


George Pell..who here does not feel like weeping? Pity, justice and holy hope.

Breaking Patterns in Broken relationships

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 15, 2019 14:46


Joseph gets what he has coming...doesn't he? An ancient story of trauma and forgiveness and about how the holy spirit can help break the cycle...

How the big bang and every tear ever wept..are all connected

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 3, 2019 13:23


This Christmas we go back to stardust and we remind each other that for the OK people to simply be OK is no longer OK...it is a dereliction of duty

Community: and how it makes everything possible.

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 3, 2019 13:58


Angels are all around us, in the most unexpected of places...and sometimes, like with Mary long ago, they give us the courage to be the Braveheart of the world...

Scene 1 - How Long You Been Doing This For Mixdown

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 19, 2018 1:02


Scene 1 - How Long You Been Doing This For Mixdown by Alexandra Sangster

Scene 2 - The Room Is Small Mixdown

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 19, 2018 2:38


Scene 2 - The Room Is Small Mixdown by Alexandra Sangster

You upon that great height - the old man in the alley

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 19, 2018 2:48


You upon that great height - the old man in the alley by Alexandra Sangster

Before you die - Crow

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 19, 2018 1:36


Before you die - Crow by Alexandra Sangster

Asking for help....

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 19, 2018 12:30


We struggle to admit vulnerability yet the world only changes when we ask each other for help....

We remember the dead and invest in weapons to murder the future...

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 19, 2018 14:28


100 year anniversary of the 'Great war' and Australia invests in memorials and weapons while our returned soldiers fight the goverment for compensation....and meanwhile the wildflowers grow

Humanity Sunday

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 19, 2018 14:05


Have we come to the end of the holocene and entered the age of the Anthropocene? What would it mean to become servants rather than masters of creation? And what can we learn from the love of 'Silent Spring'?

Sky Sunday

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 19, 2018 13:12


Breath - we all need it- but why do we focus on the first and the last and pay so little attention to the ones in between? How do we help each other to truly learn how to breathe.....?

What can we learn from the Lindworm Myth?

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 16, 2018 11:10


Four more women murdered and its time to look at the darkness within. What does St Paul tell us about interconnection and being 'the body'?

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Marriage Equality and the Uniting Church: Lets make history people!

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 26, 2018 12:39


Its a terrible thing, to be lonely, to feel that you have no home. But God tells us that we are all part of the one family...we are all beloved, we are all equal...

How do we bind the strongman?

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 4, 2018 10:18


How do we bind the strong man... and who is he anyway? Devil, empire or shadow self....whichever you choose... there is work to be done.

Time to stand up in the boat

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 4, 2018 11:29


Time to stand up in the boat: fighting trump’s evil regime.. we can do this together.

Pentecost and the day the holy spirit decided to hang out at Saint Vinnies Hospital

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 19, 2018 8:36


Pentecost and the day the Holy Spirit decided to hang out at Saint Vinnies Hospital.

Elder Abuse Awareness Day

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 19, 2018 9:41


It was World Elder Abuse awareness day and Australia denies our eldest refugee on Nauru palliative care…can we learn to be like the mustard tree, can we shelter the vulnerable in our branches?

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