1. Choose to love each other, even in those moments when you struggle to like each other. Love is a commitment, not a feeling. 2. Always answer the phone when your husband/wife is calling. When possible, try to keep your phone off when you’re together with your spouse. 3. Make time together a priority. Budget […]

‘Open and Relational Theology: Its Social and Political Implications: Muslim and Christian Perspectives’ published by SacraSage Press Editors include Jonathan Foster (Author), Thomas Oord (Author), Manuel Schmid (Author), and Mouhanad Khorchide (Author) With its emphasis on relation over substance and possibility over predetermined endings, open and relational theology provides a way forward for both Muslims […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.  […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]