Articles

Boney and Spindly! Reviving Liturgy with the Sensuous Textures of Landscape (2021)
• We will recover our sense of wonder and our sense of sacred only if we appreciate the universe beyond ourselves. The landscape. The sky above, the earth below. The grasses, the flowers, the forests, the fauna… The miracle of each moment awaits our sensual wonder.

Celebrate the Earth Alive! Religious Naturalism in Ritual, Festivals, and Celebrations (2019)
• Have you ever stood with awe and wonder before the unbounded totality of all reality—this ongoing process we call the universe, feeling your own intimacy with all its life, thrilling with the realisation of the magnitude of that relationship, relating you to all the world’s life, past, present and future? If you have, you have experienced first-hand religion

Of Old Trees, Stardust, and Moments of Wonder (2018)
• In introduction to Religious Naturalism. First delivered (in edited form) at the Common Dreams5 Conference of Religious Progressives, Sydney, July 2019

It’s Natural: A ‘Forgotten Alternative’ for Progressive Spirituality (2016)
• Presentations on two separate occasions: (i) at The Progressive Christianity Network of Victoria, in Melbourne, 23 October 2016, on new directions/initiatives in progressive spirituality, and (ii) at The Centre for Progressive Religious Thought, in Canberra, 14 November 2016

Give Holy Communion the Flick! Celebrate the Jesus Banquet (2014)
• A 'quick-fire' presentation at the launch of the Progressive Spirituality New Zealand

Our Landscape is: Shaping contemporary Australian 'Sunday morning' experiences (2005)
• Our Australian/Southern hemisphere liturgies should be both theologically and  'landscape' honest.

Liturgy, liturgists, and Port Arthur (1996)
• In the aftermath of the Port Arthur massacre, the media played an important liturgical role in the healing process.