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‘FIRE AND FAITH‘ IS A MASTERPIECE

Dave Andrews I wanted to alert you to the release of ‘Fire And Faith’, a great book called written by my good friend Kristin Jack, who died a day before it was published, that you could order for Christmas. I never expected this book to be as extraordinarily good as it is. It was my […]

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Songs In The Key Of Be

This is an extraordinary twenty-five minute recording of a lovely selection of five of my songs, played by a brilliant collection of talented local musicians, at a concert for my sixtieth birthday that was broadcast around Australia a month later by the ABC on Radio National as ‘Songs In The Key Of Be’. I think […]

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‘One of the best books I have ever read.’

I have written lots of nonfiction books, but I know that does not make me a writer, anymore than playing lots of four chord songs on my guitar makes me a guitarist. Geraldine Brooks is not just a writer, she is a writer’s writer, a great Australian born American Pulitzer Prize winning writer. I wish […]

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Early Christian Quotes Against Killing

Recently, I compiled a free ebook titled 100 Early Christian Quotes on Not Killing. You can grab a copy of the PDF here. Below is the introduction I wrote for the book. “Above all,” Clement of Alexandria wrote in the second century, “Christians are not allowed to correct by violence sinful wrongdoings.” These words sum up well […]

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Walk. Love. Rebuild.

BEGINS MAY 13: REGISTER NOW Walk. Love. Rebuild. Even where there are deepening divisions, love is possible. Even when there is suffering, joy is possible. Even in the midst of brokenness, rebuilding is possible. A simple, singing monk from the 13th century just might be able to teach us what is still possible—for us, today.  […]

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The ‘Radical Bible’ Series

Video Series: Radical Bible! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymnCvvwu3wY This letter below is from my friend Wes Howard-Brook introducing his “Radical Bible” series. Wes Howard-Brook has been teaching at Seattle University, researching and writing at the intersection of church, society and academy.’ His classic biblical text “Come Out, My People!” God’s Call out of Empire in the Bible and Beyond is […]

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Times Like These

A song for “Times Like These” with Goanna’s Shane Howard and Redgum’s John Schumann I never thought we’d be right back here Living in the darkness, living with the fear Forgotten where we came from, driftin’ in the mist With the mainmast broken and the headsail ripped They run with hares, they hunt with the […]

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Not for Me

This is the first song I ever recorded – shaky voice, steady resolve. ‘Not For Me’ articulates where I stand over against the narcissist, capitalist, materialist status quo. I am determined that as long as I live: ‘I won’t raise my hat to status. I won’t bow my knee to wealth, But I’ll sing and […]

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Sorry

This is an early recording I decided to release on YouTube for this NAIDOC week (organised by the National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee). ‘Sorry’ is my protest song that has been sung at demonstrations to lament the contradictions between the mythology of Australia being a country committed to a ‘fair go’ society and […]

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When Will We Ever Learn To Care?

This is another early recording of one of my songs that I decided to release on YouTube. ‘When Will We Ever Learn To Care?’ takes its shape in the form of a question that is quietly crying out for an answer from anyone who will hear it as it echoes in their own heart. It […]

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Kindness Is My Religion

I have decided to release some of the early recordings of my songs on YouTube. ‘Kindness Is My Religion’ is typical of my spiritual community singalong folk-pop songs. It was a recorded as a rough cut in a single take in the basement under St Andrews, Vulture Street, South Brisbane. I was on vocals with […]

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Undivided

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