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As we come to this point of rest on the synodal journey, we go to the mountains. The first is Mount Nebo where, after the flight from Egypt and the wandering in the wilderness, we find Moses finally glimpsing the Promised Land across the Dead Sea. Gazing...

The theme of this Synod, "I am making all things new", are words of the Risen Christ taken from the Book of Revelation (21:5). They were spoken into a world wracked by the old demons of brutal power and bitter persecution. They embodied a divine promise...

I first met Gerald O'Collins in 1971 when I was a seminarian at Corpus Christi College Glen Waverley in what was then called first year Theology and he was a young and rather glamorous teacher of theology who seemed to know everything and everyone. Those...

Mary MacKillop was by all accounts a peaceful woman who, it has been said, "respected and loved people even when they were at their worst". Yet she was no stranger to conflict through her life. She didn't seek conflict, but it seemed to seek her. Mary's...

It was Winston Churchill who said, "We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us". He echoed the words of the architect Frank Lloyd Wright, "We create our buildings and then they create us". In this sesquicentenary celebration we tell the story of...

Warfare has changed dramatically in the span of time we remember on Anzac Day. Perhaps the greatest emblem of that change was the dropping of the atom bomb on Hiroshima on 6 August 1945. We have all seen images and read stories of the apocalyptic devastation...