One of the phrases that must be in contention for the phrase of the year contest is ‘the new normal.’ Just searching the news gives over a million hits in the last month alone. But the rapid reoccurrence of this phrase...
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Christopher PorterBreaking the chain
The story in which Ishmael and Hagar are driven out into the wilderness by Sarah, with Abraham’s complicity, has often been read as setting up the animosity which has persisted between different nations and faith...
Fergus KingCOVID-19 Chronicles: Interview with Mark Lindsay on Australia
What impact is the COVID-19 pandemic having on religious communities around the world? In this episode, Dr Ed Kessler speaks with Reverend Professor Mark Lindsay from Trinity College Theological School about the...
Trinity College Theological SchoolThe past is not fixed for nations and peoples
The impact of the past on the present is not fixed for nations and peoples, any more than it is for individuals. We humans are constantly revising the stories we tell ourselves in light of new insights or abilities...
Colleen O'ReillyReflection on the Trinity
Over the weeks of lockdown through the coronavirus, we celebrated major festivals of the church’s year: in particular, the death, resurrection and ascension of Jesus, along with his sending of the Spirit. Trinity Sunday...
Dorothy LeeWhy the Old Testament is as relevant as ever to the modern world
Trinity's Senior Lecturer in Old Testament, Dr Rachelle Gilmour, explains how the Old Testament draws parallels to this new world we find ourselves living in.
Rachelle GilmourBreathe
Almost three months ago – when shops had just closed, borders had been shut, and we were beginning to hunker down into an indefinite period of home isolation – my wife, Sonia, chalked a single word on the wall of our...
Mark LindsayLife in Lockdown, or the Challenges of being Housebound
I don’t know about you, but I am starting to get really sick of the four walls of my study and my house. My routine is the same each day. I needed to establish a routine in order to put some structure around what is...
Marilyn HopeVultures around the Carcass? Judgment, Blame and Scapegoats
When I worked in Kenya in the 1980s, news circulated from Uganda of a disease which caused healthy young adults to lose weight rapidly and die. At first known as “slim”, it would become more formally...
COVID-19 and the Dilemma of Technology
In Psalm 135, the Psalmist writes: ‘The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of human hands. They have mouths, but they do not speak; they have eyes, but they do not see; they have ears, but they do not...
Robert DerrenbackerGetting to know the stranger: what theology can teach us
I’m convinced author and screenwriter Douglas Adams must have taken a theology course. In The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy he writes, ‘There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the...
Scott KirklandLiving with new gratitude for the gift of life
The Revd Dr Colleen O’Reilly (Monday 18 May) Just when I thought I had the ageing thing nailed, the government intervened. I had been required to retire from parish ministry in 2019 because of my age, and I...
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