Episode

Memory Makers

25 December 2018 – Christmas Day A few years ago, I came across a list of six of the best Christmas short stories, and on it was Truman Capote’s A Christmas Memory. Does anyone know it? Truman Capote is better known as the author of Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1958) and Read more
By Belinda Groves, ago

Mary’s Song

23 December 2018 The first two chapters of Luke, in a different way to Matthew, give us a full account of the background of the birth and childhood of Jesus.  And along with Matthew, it is often the backdrop of our familiar Christmas pageants with kids wearing tea towels acting Read more
By Martin Reilly, ago

Repentance and Joy

16 December 2018 Today is a rather confusing day in the season of Advent. We have been going along lighting purple candles remembering that this is a time of preparing and waiting for God to come into our world – a time of penitence – which up until the Second Read more
By Belinda Groves, ago

Seeing Peace through God’s Lenses

9 December 2018 Steve Killelea the Australian IT entrepreneur and founder of the global Institute for Economics and Peace has said, “Sanskrit has 108 words for love. Islam has 99 names for God. Japanese has 14 words for beauty. We’ve got one word for Peace…. We don’t have enough words Read more
By Belinda Groves, ago

Open My Eyes

28 Oct – Blinding light I was headed south on the Tuggeranong Parkway on Wednesday, just exiting onto Lady Denman drive, one of my favourite bits of road in Canberra, and half listening to the radio when I heard the phrase, ‘blinding light’. It was Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews promising, Read more
By Belinda Groves, ago

Is it Lawful to Divorce

Reading – Mark 10: 2 – 12 Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife? The question posed to Jesus in our text today from Mark continues to be asked in our time though perhaps not in the particular form it is here.  It’s a serious question for Read more
By Martin Reilly, ago

The Wolf of Gubbio

The Wolf of Gubbio – Mark 1:21-28 In 13th century Italy there was a small city nestled in the foothills of a great mountain. It was a city of considerable beauty and its people were very very proud of it. They had piazzas with wide fountains, restaurants with fantastic food, Read more
By Belinda Groves, ago