The Scandal of Christianity One of the interesting debates across cultures and different religions is whether the divine can be involved, directly, in the ordinary mess of daily life. It’s...
From The Chapel: The Prodigal Son
Chapel
03 April 2025
“There was a man who had two sons. The younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of the property that will belong to me.” This...
From the Chapel
Chapel
21 March 2025
Stepping out in faith I wonder what image or feeling comes to mind when you hear the word “faith”. Unfortunately, for some people in our society, when they hear the...
From the Chapel
Chapel
07 March 2025
Ash Wednesday is the day, which marks the beginning of the season of Lent, as we prepare for Easter. The 40 days of Lent (not counting Sundays, which are always...
From the Chapel – Respectful Disagreement
Chapel
21 February 2025
In his school captain’s address in week 1, when Aadi and Tiger were commissioned as our captains for 2025, Aadi spoke about the notion of “respectful disagreement”. This is a...
From the Chapel
Chapel
07 February 2025
The first part of Luke’s Gospel includes some of the very few pieces of information we have about Jesus’ childhood, including his infancy. In chapter 2, Mary and Joseph bring...
From the Chapel
Chapel
06 December 2024
From the Magi “In the time of King Herod, after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem, asking, ‘Where is the child...
From the Chapel
Chapel
21 November 2024
Positive Masculinity One of the confronting (at least from my perspective) statistics to emerge from the recent US election was that significantly more young Australian men would have voted for...
From the Chapel
Chapel
26 September 2024
One of the hardest lesson we face in life is coming to grips with the following contradiction. (These two things hit up against each other and seemingly can’t be resolved.)...
From the Chapel: A Contract with God
Chapel
12 September 2024
The history of the people of Israel was all about them making agreements with God, God being faithful, and them being less than always faithful! This agreement really started in...
God in Silence
Chapel
30 August 2024
From the Chapel: Effective Leadership
Chapel
15 August 2024
Unless you recently resolved not to look at any news feeds or to go on social media at all, you would be aware that the question of leadership has been...
