Episode

Simeon and Anna

30 December 2018 So Christmas is over.  The banners remain and memories of the big day and its build up lingers like smoke from the Advent candles now blown out.  We have remembered the story of the birth of Jesus.  And today Luke takes us into the Temple, where Jesus Read more…
By Martin Reilly, ago

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

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