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The Fingerprint

Wednesday, 21 February 2024

| Rhys Coleman

I am unique / And never the same

Review of Bruce Cockburn’s O Sun O Moon

Wednesday, 7 February 2024

| Andrew Stewart

With this latest album, Cockburn intensifies his sense of spiritual reflection and introspection. ‘O Sun O Moon’ is perhaps surprisingly optimistic given all that is currently going on in the world.

on paper in the post-human world

Tuesday, 23 January 2024

| Sean Feeney

the broken english of a google search evades me / and i escape it in favour of printed glossy paper

I Am a Book

Tuesday, 23 January 2024

| Ciara Feeney

Wanting to be read / To be known

Totally by Choice

Monday, 15 January 2024

| John Kidson

I write because I have to.

Beloved

Thursday, 14 December 2023

| Miriam Dale

His Grace is Sufficient for Me and / He Delights in Me where / I AM

Rosie and the Rich Man: An Australian Parable

Tuesday, 28 November 2023

| Travis McHarg

Is this a parable of Australia, the rich man in his home and the beggar on the grass? They asked for so little – recognition and a voice – and it was too much; it will be a sandwich on the grass.

Book review: Truly Called? Vocation in the Anglican Church

Sunday, 19 November 2023

| Neville Carr

This book provides an interesting insight into traditional Anglican patterns of church, ministry and leadership. However it risks promoting a disempowering elitism, which sets the vocation of 'ordained' clergy above others.