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  • Sunday 27 June 2021

on bowls, sheep and goats

11/26/2023

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I thought it might be helpful this morning to bring along a favourite bowl of mine.  It was made by an artist friend Kerry Holland, whose paintings and bowl sculptures on the theme of The Visitation is currently on exhibition in Pitt Street Uniting Church.  She also made this one, which she gave to me as a gift when I came out as transgender, affirming my  authentic gender identity a few years ago.   It is precious to me for that reason but also because, like all of Kerry’s bowl sculptures it is unique, with its own particular shape, story, and constellation of colours.  In that sense, it is like each human being: an exquisitely unique and special divine creation.  The more I reflect upon that, and upon the nature of a bowl itself, the more I am also drawn into the love of God.  So I would like to share with you some ways in which each of us might helpfully use a bowl as a prayerful way into appreciating ourselves and others and holding together what can easily be misused in the Gospel parable (Matthew 25.31ff) which we heard read just now.  For, whilst that passage is in some ways quite straightforward in the challenge it offers us, it is also presents some questions, particularly in the way it divides people into two black and white binary groups, one of which receives blessed things and the other total condemnation…


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burying treasure as divine resistance

11/19/2023

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Some years ago, we had a lovely bishop on the New South Wales Central Coast who would occasionally run a workshop which he entitled ‘Don’t just do something, sit there!’  This was a deliberate response to our modern tendencies towards hyper-activity, including within Church circles.  In the bishop’s case, he was hardly neglectful of social justice.  He was, for example, very involved in the work of Samaritans (aka Anglicare in the Diocese of Newcastle), and a leading figure in Anglican environmental work.  However, what he saw was that, without grace and space for God, even the best of our words and works are at risk of becoming easily frenzied and frustrated.  Vitally, theologically, over activism also risks colluding with our world’s self-concerned drives for ever increasing productivity and consumption of various kinds – each of which can become godlike demands upon us. Particularly in Western Christianity, these also make use of ideas like the Protestant work ethic, which can easily reinforce the false idea that we essentially have value through what we do, rather than who we are, and that we are judged by what we achieve.   No wonder our lives and world become so stressed, and it becomes so difficult to handle conflicts within, between, and beyond, ourselves.  Just ‘being’ is so easily despised – whether this is through simply sitting, contemplation rather than action, space and silence rather than words and works.   No wonder God, the source of being and becoming, also so easily disappears.  Perhaps however, as the bishop suggested, these may actually be ways back to balance, including helping heal great conflicts.   Understood in this way, our Gospel parable today (Matthew 25.14-30) calls us to consider burying our talents, our time and our treasure, as means of divine resistance and renewal…


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Earth's Desire

9/3/2023

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‘Let justice flow like a river’ is the central theme of this year’s global ecumenical Season of Creation.  This phrase comes from the book of Amos, chapter 5, part of which we heard just now.  Let us hear how this speaks powerfully today and why people of faith are called to work and pray together….
(Watch the Laudato Sí Movement’s ‘Prepare for Season of Creation 2023’ video here...)


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what kind of shepherd?

4/30/2023

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What do sheep and shepherds mean to you?  They are very much part of my story but I often struggle with them theologically in my context today.  This photo is from Forest-in-Teesdale, near where I was born.  Indeed, the farm in the centre is one I knew years ago, working with local farmers on pressing issues of rural stress and suicide, social and economic survival, and other faith and environmental issues.  For sheep and good shepherding, literally and spiritually, is crucial to the Durham Dales.  High on the roof of England, though we once had the greatest silver mine in the world, even subsistence mining of many important minerals is now near impossible.  The great hunting lodges of bishops and kings have gone, disappearing with the remaining tree cover swept from the fells.  Only occasional rich people’s grouse shooting really accompanies sheep today, together with the ambiguous harvest of tourists sampling one of England’s last wildernesses.  Shepherds, particularly on the highest ground, therefore remain heroic figures to me: extraordinarily resilient, weathering so many vicissitudes; and, above all, deeply, intimately, connected to their/my land and its communities.  No wonder Cuthbert, the greatest saint of the North, began life as a shepherd.  Sheep, and good shepherding, are part of the lifeblood of my native people.   What however of other peoples?  In these lands now called Australia colonial society was notoriously built ‘on the sheep’s back’.  Whilst that was lifeblood for some, for others it meant the blood of death and dispossession.  For in the pioneering work of John Macarthur and others, the sheep was arguably a weapon of mass destruction, and shepherds key players in frontier warfare.   So what kind of shepherd do we value today?...


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seeking justice

1/22/2023

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Photo by Penny Jones of public artwork in The Rocks, Sydney by Wiradjuri, Yuin & Gadigal artist Nadeena Dixon (see her interpretation below)
What’s in a name?  - often, a huge amount.  First Nations peoples are very clear about that and the intimate relationship between naming, language more widely, culture, identity and flourishing.  Other oppressed peoples know this too.  Hence the suppression or promotion of different languages is so vital an issue: just look, for example, at Wales, Catalonia, Belgium or Canada.   It is not simply good manners to use the language people ask of us. It is because, unless we do so, we are disconnected from layers of meaning and identity, place and community, history and, indeed, geology.  Take my surname: Inkpin.  This has nothing to do with writing or being a scribe, or seamstress.  It comes from two ancient British words: inga and pen.  Inga, in modern English, means people.  Pen means hill.  This tells me, and others, that I come from the people of the hill, with all the deep layers of connection this entails: to particular soil and environment; to history and culture; to others, past, present and future.   Indeed, even today, there are English villages, not surprisingly on hills, with the name Inkpen.  For whilst much was swept away by the two great imperial invasions of my native land, there are still fragments of British indigeneity left, and one is my surname.  It is a living reminder that there are other ways of being English, and British, than what is usually asserted: there are always were, and there always will be.  For when we look more deeply, the living fragments of traditional cultures in every land call us both to recognition of pain and loss, and also to fresh pathways of justice.  This is part of today’s Day of Mourning.  We will not find peace unless we recognise what has happened in this land - and particularly in this city; unless we repent – and much more radically than we whitefellas have so far done; and unless, in Midnight Oil’s words earlier,[1] we ‘come on down’ to the makararrata place, ‘the campfire of humankind’, ‘the stomping ground.’…

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blooming with justice and joy

12/11/2022

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Christmas-time is so often a confluence of loss and gain.  So many of us find that good and tough memories are tangled up.  My parents died a year ago this weekend, just as a new child was conceived in my immediate family: a child who will therefore be a new gift among us this Christmas.  Yet it is hardly the first time that death and birthing have been entwined.   Reflecting on that helps me better understand today’s Gospel and not least Mary’s extraordinary cry of justice, and of joy.   As Alla Renee Bozarth brilliantly expresses it in her poem Annunciation, it is a cry of subversive angelic power.  No wonder the three large ‘queer’ angels we will shortly welcome from Lismore’s LIghtnUp project are entitled Courage, Compassion, and Joy.  For, as Lismore’s wonderful community artist Jyllie Jackson has identified, Courage, Compassion and Joy are core life-giving elements, not only to Queer Pride.  They also, vitally, flow out of the Gospel and Magnificat of Mary, and, as Jyllie suggests to us, they are at the core of what the Way of Jesus, and our particular community, is and can be…

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disturbing angels in the wilderness

12/4/2022

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PictureAngels by Marek Piwicki on Unsplash
John the Baptist is an angel. This is explicit in the biblical text, where Mark writes of them, quoting Isaiah, “behold I send my messenger ahead of you” – and the word used for messenger (as everywhere in the Greek text) is angelos  - angel! John the Baptist probably does not fit the picture we have of an angel – no wings, no obvious glowing light, no message of peace. But he’s an angel. He’s pretty  unmissable – wild, eccentric to say the least, and certainly not welcome at the average family tea table. As Jo has written in her brief Biblical commentaries in Insights for this season, “If he was a toddler someone might suggest his emotions were disregulated by his diet and he needed to calm down and get a good night’s sleep! Yet, his prophetic voice is one we cannot ignore. He reminds us that there is always a place for righteous anger and that sometimes the new and better requires actions of clearing and letting go that can be painful and disturbing to some. His voice acts as corrective to tendencies in some Christian circles to associate the gospel with niceness or respectability. John was not respectable. But his message was essential.” His was the message of a disturbing angel calling us to change.


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receiving angels

11/27/2022

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So, angels are coming. How will we greet them?   At once, perhaps we start to ponder: but what are we greeting? And are there such things as angels anyway?  Modernity’s functional materialism has so much to answer for!  From a Reformed Christian perspective today it is also sometimes hard to engage.  For whilst the classic Reformed theologians were quite clear that angels are to be taken very seriously, as they appear in so many places in the Bible.  Yet later thinkers have found less value.  In some quarters of liberal and progressive Protestantism they almost became erased: rejected with supposedly passé doctrines like the virgin birth, miracles and even major articles of the historic creeds.  Ironically, as liberal Protestantism declined, other faith constructions began to thrive, not least New Age spiritualities with their extraordinary mix of angelic and other speculations.  Did demythologising thereby open the door to old heresies? - as well as to a loss of divine wonder in the secular world?  Certainly, as Les Murray pondered in his poem ‘The Barranong Angel Case’, which we heard read earlier, do we have the capacity to see and receive the angels of Christian tradition today?


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what do Reconciliation and Unity look like now?

5/29/2022

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Interaction Institute for Social Change | Artist: Angus Maguire.
In recent years some of my Aboriginal friends have said to me that they do not really believe in the Australian concept of Reconciliation and some of the activities, like Reconciliation Action Plans, which have accompanied it.   Meanwhile some Church leaders have said to me that they do not see much point in engaging actively in ecumenical endeavours.  So why, we might ask, are we marking the Week of Prayer for Reconciliation and the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity this morning?  Actually I did wonder about changing the title on the front of our liturgy sheet today to ‘Prayer for Just Relationships and Communion in Christian Diversity’.  That, for me, would be at least part acknowledgment of the difficulties of the words Reconciliation and Christian Unity and the need for re-imagining as well as building on the good work of the past.  However I have left Reconciliation and Christian Unity in the title for the present, so we honour where we have traveled.  Nonetheless, as we hear our two readings this morning (from Revelation chapter 22 and John chapter 17), we do well to reflect more deeply on the words and constructions we may use in order that we share in more fruitful pathways for our work together with others.  For that purpose I also offer you the cartoon meme entitled the #4thBox, as an encouragement to deeper prayer, more imaginative reflection and more creative action…

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pentecost imaginings

5/22/2021

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(Jo) What an abundance of rich spiritual images we have in our liturgy today – all trying to capture just a hint of the richness of the Holy Spirit. I wonder which speaks most vividly to you – is it the fire, the wind, the breath, the dove, the tongues, the living bones? Or is it the breathing, the blowing, the swirling, the burning, the dancing, the prophesying? For somehow nouns are never enough for the Spirit – we need the verbs, the present participles that suggest movement, motion, dynamism. One thing is certain, without the Spirit, we as individuals and the church would be stuck – it is the Spirit that moves through our ‘stuckness’ and constantly invites us to the new.

We’re going to explore just a few of the pictures of the Spirit, acknowledging that no one image can ever come close to the fullness of this animating force of the divine. So, where to begin Penny?...



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