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Nazareth Then and Now
Ancient Nazareth lacked the critical advantages for its development as a significant settlement: abundant water supply, an elevated site for defensive purposes, and strategic location adjacent to a major highway. The most comprehensive recent study of the archeology of ancient Nazareth and its local region was completed by Ken Dark over several seasons between 2004…
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The oldest hatred
Presentation to a panel discussion sponsored by the Jewish Council of Australia at St John’s Cathedral, Brisbane on Monday, 29 September 2025. The topic of the event was: Should anti-Semitism be exceptionalised or should we combat all forms of racism together? Co-hosts for the event included: Doykeit (a local Jewish group in Brisbane), St John’s…
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Spirit of the living God
Pentecost Sunday Christ Church Cathedral, Grafton 9 June 2019 [ video ] Last week we started a series of sermons that will extend across the five Sundays of June. During this month we are exploring the core of our mission, what I have called “Mission in a nutshell”. There is a famous story in…
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First things first
Easter 7C Christ Church Cathedral, Grafton 2 June 2019 [ video ] At its last meeting, Parish Council agreed that we would use the five Sundays during June to reflect on our core mission as Christians: first of all, to love God, and secondly, to love other people just as we love…
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Wisdom has set a table
CVAS Junior School Worship 26 May 2019 Christ Church Cathedral Grafton [ video ] The Table stands at the centre of our worship today. It is always so for Christians. We have lots of symbols, but the Table is the one that is distinctively Christian. Not a book to be mastered, but a Table…
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Love, actually (again)
Easter 5C Christchurch Cathedral, Grafton 19 May 2019 [ video ] Love, actually (again)# # “again”, because on 23 December 2018 I preached a sermon with the same title. There is a famous story—probably apocryphal—of a new priest who surprised her parishioners when the sermon she delivered on her first Sunday…
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The Fourth R
For years now educators have reminded us of the need to address the “three R’s”: Reading, ‘Riting and ‘Rithmetic. At the same time, Religion scholars and especially those of us engaged critical biblical studies have been warning people not to neglect the ‘fourth R’—religious literacy. Religious literacy might be defined as that set of knowledge,…
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The Good Shepherd
Easter 4C / Mothers’ Day Christ Church Cathedral, Grafton 12 May 2019 [ video ] It is a beautiful accident that our secular Mothers’ Day this year coincides with the Fourth Sunday of Easter, with its theme of Jesus as the Good Shepherd. Like a mother whose ear is attuned to the call of her…
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