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...
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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...
Fergus KingCOVID-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...
Guest AuthorWhat Will We Take?
Like me, I am sure you have all noticed how much more silence there is in these days of isolation and being-at-home. For us city and town dwellers it is more marked than for rural folk. And, as we slowly emerge from...
Dorothy LeeRev Dr Richard Wilson
Rev Dr Richard Wilson graduated with a PhD in 2020. His thesis examined the institutional church in Australia's influence on public policy formation, especially in economics, finance and business. "I chose the...
University of DivinityLiving ‘Without God’
During the summer of 1944 – 15 months into a 2-year imprisonment that would end in his execution in the Flossenbürg concentration camp – Dietrich Bonhoeffer told his best friend that the world had reached its adulthood...
Rest amidst the Unrest
Dr Rachelle Gilmour
For those who are overworked during this time of COVID-19, a whole day’s rest sounds an unrealistic luxury. For others, COVID-19 is experienced as a period of complete cessation.
Rachelle GilmourThe Pathway Ahead
There is a sign on an Alaskan highway that warns drivers about the limitations facing them ahead. It reads “Choose you rut carefully, as you will be in it for the next 60 miles” reflecting the deep ruts which previous...
Gary HeardDr Nixon de Vera
Dr Nixon de Vera graduated with a PhD in 2019. His thesis asks whether or not Karl Barth’s God is a suffering God and,if so, what precisely he means by that. "I chose the University of Divinity for my research degree...