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Minister, reader, and occasional wanderer.

This is my own patch of the internet — part study, part campfire. I’m a Uniting Church minister in Adelaide, and most weeks you’ll find me somewhere between a lectionary reading, a stack of books, and a few too many open tabs. This site is where the preaching, the reading, and the rest of it live together.

Please note that this site is currently being run through an AI slop machine (Claude). Also, one of those little disclaimers – nothing on here is official UCA speak, so ya know, don’t be silly with it.

This week

Sunday 18 October 2026 — 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Preaching

John 4:7-15 — The Samaritan woman
Ezekiel 47:1-12 — The river from the temple

Mission Statement Sunday. Jesus turns up at a well with no bucket and asks a stranger for a drink, on the day the congregation says its Mission Statement aloud. This week’s Monday Prep has the commentary I’ve leaned on, and where the texts sit.

Read this week’s prep

Worship Leading

This week’s Sunday Toolkit

Song ideas, prayers, and the practical bits for whoever is shaping this Sunday’s service.

Open the toolkit

Looking further ahead? The next few Sundays are lined up on the Preaching page.

From the Shelf

Hannah’s Child: A Theologian’s Memoir
Stanley Hauerwas

The memoir of one of the most influential Christian theologians of the last fifty years, named for the mother who prayed Hannah’s prayer over him. (2010.)

Pulled from the 1,127 on my shelf.

See it on LibraryThing