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Opening Address for the Abrahamic Leaders’ Dinner, Victoria Wiradjuri Language Note: This speech uses Wiradjuri language, the language of the largest single nation on the continent. Key terms: Ngurambang (Country, law, belonging), Dhuray (connection), Winhangadhurinya (deep listening), Mandaang guwu (thank … Read More »
No one knows the hour, not the spirits riding the high winds, not the old people watching from the star-river, not even the Son— only the Creator, whose breath first warmed the red dust and set the world dreaming. Advent … Read More »
Luke 12:32-48 When in Brisbane I spent time with a little boy called Leo who has cerebral palsy and is learning sign language. One of the signs is this – he uses this when he sees something unusual such as … Read More »
Paper given at St John’s Cathedral, 15 July, 2018 by Rev’d Glenn Loughrey, Wiradjiru, Artist. © Yuwin ngahdi Glenn Loughrey Ddyiramadilinya badhu wiradjuri I acknowledge the sovereign land on which we meet, the country which gave birth to and continues … Read More »
An Australian Eucharist Service Prepared by Rev. Glenn Loughrey 2018 Acclamation: Blessed be God, the Great Creator Being. Blessed be God, the Breath of All, the Wisdom behind the Dreaming and the Way of … Read More »
How do we make sense of the ongoing tragedy that is the treatment of Australia’s First Nations people? Is this a singular tragedy or is the identity of Australia and Australians intertwined to produce a multifaceted tragedy that will … Read More »
Is there a limit to forgiveness is the question Peter asks Jesus. 7 was the number of completeness and the limit to which one would go in terms of forgiving another. Jesus, as he often does, overturns the accepted … Read More »
Last Wednesday night I had a dream. I dreamt I and many others were in a compound ruled over by a powerful white bureaucrat. There were so many people there they could not all be accommodated. Some 200 were killed … Read More »
This was a paper given at the Carmelite Symposium, May 2017 on acknowledgement of country. I would like to acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which we meet, the Werrundjuri people of the Kulin nation, and the elders past, … Read More »
Mathew 5:1-12 This week we celebrated Australia Day. For some of us this is not an easy task, we come from many places, backgrounds and experiences and find it difficult to connect to the major narrative about our nationhood. … Read More »