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After the Fracture: Resurgence and the Sovereignty of the Every’when A companion to: Resurgence: Refusal, Renewal, and the Sovereignty of Country (2025) Prepared in the lead-up to NAIDOC Week 2026 — 50 Years Deadly ********************************** To refuse is not to … Read More »
The Gospel insists that salvation is not an inward belief but an outward transformation. To ‘inherit eternal life’ is not to escape this world, but to live truthfully within it. Treaty calls us to do just that — to walk a new way, stripped of privilege, clothed in humility, reconciled to God and to Country.
ngiyanggarang – the voice jesus is god spoken on country from country honoring the country of his father and his mother speaking truth into each from the other jesus the christ is god’s voice into the realm of humanity and … Read More »
At Christmas, we “celebrate the institution of the Voice in the Divine constitution of the universe”[1]. Jesus is God spoken on country From country Honoring the country of His Father and his mother Speaking truth into each From the other … Read More »
Glenn Loughrey – July 2019 – © In recent times in Australia we have pondered the question on whether to recognise indigenous Australians in the Constitution. Discussions have alternated between yes and no, if yes where and in what context … Read More »
Luke 19:28-40 Today is Palm Sunday, a day for marches, rallies and statements on peace, refugees, poverty – almost anything really. It is not Good Friday despite the tradition in our church to read the passion gospel today. No wonder … Read More »
Luke 3:15-17, 21-22 As we discussed last Sunday, Luke’s story abut Jesus sits firmly within the conflict around the concept of sovereignty – who is or isn’t sovereign – the state or God, humans or the Divine Mystery? Luke leaves … 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 »
Last week I was a speaker and delegate at an aboriginal conference on treaty and sovereignty in Sydney. I went with both a sense of trepidation and expectation. What happened was not what I expected. What I saw and heard … Read More »
In the lead up to this Australia Day I have noticed some developments and continuances that I was aware of but not with the same intensity as I have this year. A week or so I spoke to a gathering … Read More »