by Rev Alisha

Tag: progressive

  • These Boxes

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    When I was a child I was given boxes to grow intolike sinewon bone so my identity might takesome sort of shapein the chaos of society’s landscape. And as I grew these boxes defined mereminding mewho I was resigned to be.This helped a little so I might know how to cross the streetso I might…

  • The Importance of being Inclusive

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    “All are welcome”. A statement I have heard too often from far too many churches. It gives a false sense of security. Is my whole body welcome here? Is my gender and sexuality welcome here? Is my theology welcome here? Would my atheist partner be welcome here? And as the service goes on, without fail,…

  • Lent Meditation

    Lent Meditation

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    https://fromthelastpew.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/lent1meditation.mp3

  • Ash Wednesday Meditation

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    https://fromthelastpew.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/ash-wednesday.mp3 An Ash Wednesday Meditation, to explore the matter of our bodies, the dust of stars, as we begin this Lenten Season. 16 minutes.

  • Unfollowing Fundamentalism

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    When I moved to Australia, I was given the opportunity to start fresh again. To wipe the slate clean of the old ties I had to my evangelical world and to meet people who were more in line with my politics, my spirituality and my passions. And so began the massive (literal) witch hunt to…

  • Lazarus’ Sores

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    A response to Luke 16:19-31 It is never a bad time to call out the wealthy, the one percent, the winners in society but today, with Greta Thunberg and the rest of our restless prophets and activists standing up for our earth, it is particularly fitting to not only point our fingers at them but…

  • Monday morning and dead poets.

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    Arriving. Coming to consciousness in the crisp, new airthat isMonday. No one seems to care or wants to wake up to the conscious absurdity of six o’clock mornings and business-like conformity. Is this the sum total of our lives? Or can we step outside the rat race before our soul dies? Or do we become…