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In brief: I am a Friend of New South Wales regional meeting. I live in the Blue Mountains with loving partner and affection insatiable pets; I work as a casual academic at the University of Sydney in the department for studies in religion in which I tutor and lecture (whilst wrestling with doctoral studies). I'm very keen to engage with and listen with Friends throughout the world and across seeming traditional divides - and of course especially keen to learn more about the history and diversity of Friends.

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Easter is not for culture war.

Posted on 3rd mo. 28, 2012 at 7:10pm 0 Comments

Easter poses a fundamental question to us: what god is it that we worship, into whose image we are then created?  Too often we hear and read of the Gospel demeaned as a tool of violence and division, of how it is used by ‘us’ against ‘them’, but only really succeeding in expressing a society ‘we’ construct with the materials of lurid imagination and bitterness.

Easter is the barrier to our wilful culture-wars, and the crucifixion and Resurrection are in fact the vindications of a God…

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