When I listen to jazz I often feel like the notes being played are the notes between the notes. Jazz seems to be about the in-between spaces rather than what already exists. There's a playfulness, an exploration happening and from that new melodies are created...

  Sometimes it's the smallest things that can undermine a whole social system. There is a video on social media of a Muslim man who stands on the street blindfolded, arms outstretched, with a sign at his feet that reads; I'm Muslim and people call me a terrorist....

  It seems like everywhere I go today I hear about Hygge. Hygge is the latest craze to hit our trend-obsessed world surpassing mindfulness and happiness as the medicine which will soothe our troubled souls in a weary, tumultuous world. It's yet another gift given...

  At a lecture on gender some time ago I said Christians have become much too obsessed in discussing matters around gender which circulate around whether, for example, women can preach in the church, whether they can lead men, whether we are complementarians or...

Last night I went to Susan Carland's book launch in Sydney. She has written a book called Fighting Hislam which is about standing against a patriarchal interpretation of Islam. She has interviewed Muslim women in Australia and North America about their experiences of...

This recent photo caught my attention. It is of 16-year-old Lucie Myslíková, a girl scout who is standing up to a rightwing demonstrator a May Day rally held by neo-Nazis  in the Czech Republic’s second biggest city. It reminded me of this photo also taken recently....

  I had an emergency plumbing issue in my unit recently that meant I had to call a plumber to come out at two in the morning to fix it before it became a disaster. I sat there waiting for the plumber to arrive and wiping the leaking water off of the floor at...

My Easter week this year started badly. Late at night my hot water tank blew up and so a plumber had to come at 2am Good Friday morning to take a look at it. It's not exactly how I wanted Holy week to start off. A near disaster was avoided but it still left me...

  Lately I have lost track of how many Christians I am meeting who ask me if I know of any churches in their area that they might be able to join. Some of them are not currently attending a church, others are at a church but find it unsatisfying. We know of...

My neighbourhood library has individual seats that line up at a long shared table which face those sitting there to a glass exterior wall letting us look out onto the street. It's a busy street and a busier library. The seats are usually all taken by the time that I...

Yet again International Women's Day is upon us and I start feeling that familiar sense of resignation, discouragement and mild annoyance. Various social media discussions have been circulating around activities planned for International Women's Day. The city of...

  I came across an article today that sounded very encouraging. Female pastors are on the rise, I skimmed to the section where this was mentioned just to be sure that I had not read wrongly. I hadn't. There are more females as pastors than ever before today. This...