This week I was in Berlin, Germany at the invitation of Welcoming International – a fledgling initiative and network that is seeking to bring together various national and regional partners across the globe who are focussed on welcoming and inclusion work – particularly in relation to migrants, refugees and...
There are many voices that we don’t often privilege in churches or society. People we hear about but not from. First Australians, women, LGBT, recent immigrants, people living with a disability or mental illness – are commonly represented on the ‘voiceless’ list. I know we will all benefit from...
Almost every night, whenever we sit down to a family meal, our home phone rings. It’s uncanny. It’s as though our house is bugged or our cutlery is embedded with movement sensors linked to a call centre. The caller? Someone from a charity or non-profit organisation sharing a scripted...
Visiting the Center for Civil and Human Rights has impacted and renewed my resolve to love more, fear less and refuse to settle for mediocrity. I am inspired and humbled by the commitment of those who when freed from oppression continued to campaign for the marginalised, downtrodden and broken....
One wouldn’t have to listen to too many pop songs, attend many sociology lectures, or experience many tragedies to both hear and understand the sentiment that ‘we’re all in this together’. What we do or don’t do has an effect, whether on our own person, our friends and family,...
I am a product of multiculturalism and grace. The grandson of an Imam, the son of a Muslim and the cousin, nephew, uncle, and friend to many other Muslims. I am also the grandson of an Irish Catholic and a Protestant and my Mum was active in the Methodist Church....
