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Dear friends, Greetings from Queensland, on this January 1, 2021! This is my yearly “hello” to those near and far, although I feel like this year we have been more in touch, even while more confined and separated! One of the least known and perhaps most overlooked...

Finally and just as we finish the year, I'm delighted to be preparing the launch of my CD: Strange Life: The Music of Doubtful Faith. Find out more in this short video. I'll be posting more in the coming days/weeks.

On Friday, I was interviewed for a unit on leadership. I wanted to share it with you. Both Christiaan, my colleague and friend, and I, were moved by the shared themes that emerged – not least because of the world situation we are living right now. I started with a...

Palm Sunday marks our entrance into Holy Week, preparing us for the Triduum. It is a strange celebration that starts with acclamations of joy intoned by the same voices who then condemn Jesus to death, all in the one celebration…as we start our journey through Holy...

  Last week I lost a friend and colleague, whom they are burying today. It is echoed by the autumn colors that surround me in Boston... and I have always loved Autumn; my favorite season when there are seasonal movements. (Some earthly places have more constant,...

Do you ever feel like you are running through life without letting it run through you? Pearls lost to a pig in muck :)…wasting the precious.   So I want to slow down, name and take hold of the special moments – light and dark – so as not to miss the Spirit, as...

Very blessed this past weekend to have been in Canberra bringing together music and theology... with this gifted pianist... Macauley Parker Burton,   and these  gifted musicians: Stephen and Sean Kirk. I hope we shall play again together soon! -    ...

It seems like I have not been this tired in years. I start this post in Rome – Fiumicino, to be precise, waiting for my flight back to Brisbane to be called. It has been a long week… full of meetings in preparation for a big theological conference we are planning for...

My life inhabits many worlds… Some people say I am too busy. But I’m not sure that’s true. I travel a lot, and I move between different roles, or spaces, but there is a “why” and a “what for”, for each one, and I carry with me the ground I walk on, the family others...

        -----                     Last Friday we finally launched an initiative that has been over a year in the planning: The Xavier Centre for Theological Formation. It is a faculty initiative –...