In the midst of it all, I want to stay with the Everlasting Arms.

Understand the wisdom in change, / Accept the tide and let it take you.

How do we practise peace as the people of God? This book is a thoroughly useful practical aid for pastors, parents, church leaders and Christian educators, in working to resolve conflicts, starting with their own self-examination and contemplative prayer.

Martin Scorsese has accurately and piercingly replicated the dire fatalism of isolationist Japan – a world where a lukewarm Christian cannot exist. But Silence is also an analogy for Grace – the undeserved love of God for the weak.

For the Feast Day of St Francis of Assisi: The precious animals of Earth we share, / All created intricately and with care,

For the Feast Day of St Francis of Assisi: Hummingbirds / Hovering effortlessly / Buzz sweetly

Like domesticated silkworms, faith communities that fly under the radar feel that, in order to survive, they need to break out of that system – or at least work their way around that system. What can we learn from the genius of nature about being gently and respectfully innovative?

What wounds and sins are bleeding, / Unhealed and burning / In our own national history?

Working through the Lord’s Prayer phrase by phrase, Cronshaw invites us to look at it with fresh eyes; to see the implications of this prayer for how we understand God’s character and mission and our place within that mission.

The wealth of the Australian church is the result of colonisation - of systematic murder, rape, theft and lies, disrespect for elders, hatred for Indigenous neighbours enshrined in law, built up over the generations through the use of stolen labour, stolen wages, stolen children and stolen lives. So what should we do?