The gift of progressive movements (2009)
• Published in Cross Purposes. A forum for theological dialogue. Issue No. 18. October 2009.
Anything new under the sun: Shaping contemporary 'Sunday Morning' experiences
• The first of three presentations during the launch of the Lay Forum, a progressive lay movement within the Queensland Synod of the Uniting Church in Australia (2009)
The grass-roots movement called 'progressive Christianity'
The inaugural Rod Jensen Memorial Lecture, 2009
• The second of three presentations during the launch of the Lay Forum, a progressive lay movement within the Queensland Synod of the Uniting Church in Australia (2009)
Jesus and parables: Stories of cooperation and challenge, with a fang!
• The third of three presentations during the launch of the Lay Forum, a progressive lay movement within the Queensland Synod of the Uniting Church in Australia (2009)
An ordinary, 'natural', progressive religion (2009)
• A presentation to The Centre for Progressive Religious Thought, Sydney
To be or not to be: An 'against the stream' theology report (2009)
• A presentation to The Centre for Progressive Religious Thought, Canberra
Christmas and popular culture (2008)
• A presentation to the Rotary Club of Woden, ACT.
The 'Jesus Prayer', Jesus never prayed (2007)
• Jesus never prayed the Lord's Prayer. But unpacking the prayer fragments can help discover a Jesus 'voice print' among the Q Collection.
The 'Progressive' story in Australia (2007)
• A personal reflection on some of Australia's first generation liberal/progressives.
Progressive christianity: New moves in christian thinking and practice (2007)
• A presentation to the Christian-Jewish Dialogue ACT.
Our landscape is: Shaping contemporary Australian 'Sunday morning' experiences (2005)
• Our Australian/Southern hemisphere liturgies should be both theologically and 'landscape' honest.
Christmas is just... Christmas (2006)
• An address to the Rotary Club of Canberra-Woden. The fourth such presentation and/or article in this current collection.
Easter. A reflection (2006)
• Some thoughts after a visit to Charles Darwin's home in Downe, England.
A more adventurous life! Launch of the Progressive Christian Network of Victoria (2006)
• Welcome to the more adventurous 'progressive religious' life!
What are they now saying about... (2005)
• Reflections after some 'study leave' undertaken in USA, Canada and England.
Christmas: Store the piety, find the joy (2005)
• A short article which challenges the pious grandstanding by 'fundamentalists' of Christmas.
Many meals: 'Holy Communion' beyond the tradition of the atonement (2005)
• Meals/hospitality were important for Jesus, where he was the guest rather than the host. And while there probably was a last supper/meal, there was not the Last Supper.
Parables: Stories with a fang! (2005)
• Parables are stories which create a space, so the twist in their tail can upset our everyday world views.
Australian pioneers of progressive religion (2004)
• Introducing some Australians who were 'game enough' to tell their congregations of a progressive theology.
Born divine? A brief study of the birth narratives (2003)
• The biblical 'birth' narratives are primary material for the church's celebration of Christmas. But the church's assumed hold over the festival of Christmas as an exclusive religious event, is, and always has been, rather tenuous.
The Jesus Seminar's 'progressive thinking'. An introduction to the new quest for the historical Jesus (2003)
• Introducing the work of the Jesus Seminar.
Christmas: An extremely difficult festival to christianise (2000)
• Christmas has always been a hybrid event, weaving together culture and religion. Today 'media' is now added to this cultural mix.
Liturgy, liturgists, and Port Arthur (1996)
• In the aftermath of the Port Arthur massacre, the media played an important liturgical role in the healing process.
On not leaving Christmas 'to the pagans' (1996)
• The
church’s attempt at offering a counter culture position through the classic ‘Christ against culture’, seems not to have
solved anything for the festival of Christmas.
Pentecost: The day we see red! (1996)
• A brief article which invites lay people/leaders to 'celebrate'!
Please tell us your stories: Re-imagining the poetic in religious communication (1993)
• A presentation at the Third Conference on Christianity and Communication, at Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA.
Remembering and imagination. The Bible and memory (1993)
• Memory is the imaginative tool of the biblical storyteller. It is not a bottomless 'filing cabinet'.
Shaping storytelling groups (1992)
• Stories are an essential part of our social experience.
Telling it slant! Symbol, image and metaphor (1990)
• 'Indirect' is the style and shape religious communication should take.
A presentation to the Australian Churches Media Association, Sydney, Australia.