We’ve arrived back home in Sydney after a long absence. We were away for eight months and we both started to miss home in a steady, ongoing kind of way. Before we came back,…
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If I’m actually serious about living intentionally, it’s got to be more than good ideas. Creative, fuel-free modes of transport, growing my own tomatoes, buying from brands that care well for their…
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I went to my first ever Evensong service recently, at St Paul’s Cathedral in London. For the uninitiated, as I was, Evensong as it’s known today has a tradition of about five hundred…
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Changing the world through a simple choice. This is the mission of Australian social enterprise, Thankyou. I noticed their Patchouli and Vanilla Hand Wash on the shelf at Coles some months ago. It was actually their…
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I spent the last ten years not pursuing joy. I had times of thankfulness, of happiness, but I walked through the better part of a decade of my life feeling restless, feeling like I…
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I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit. In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning…
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As part of an exercise in reassessing and realigning my values and actions, I challenged myself in July to go without three things that are a regular part of my life: alcohol, coffee and…
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Last Sunday, my church held a ‘Celebration’ service to help us reflect on all the things we’re thankful for and for where we can see God moving and working in our lives day-to-day. It…
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I distinctly remember the moment, in my early twenties, when I decided to figure out what living a full life looked like and to follow that path. I made up my mind not…
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“If you’re someone who cares about people and about justice, it’s not so much an option but it’s something that we have to do.” Jasmin Mawson, Baptist World Aid Download the Ethical Fashion…