Podcast by Alexandra Sangster
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Gaza Peace Pilgrims..pick up the cross and walk.What does it mean to follow Jesus - is to embrace a life of suffering or is it to stand with all those who fight with all they have- for loveBy Alexandra Sangster
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What does it mean to have revolutionary patience when the world is falling apart: Holding Gaza and the God at the Monastery.By Alexandra Sangster
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Why I'm not clapping my hands with joy about the Tuvalu visas and what it means to say no to a false peace.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTrM0xN6PrIBy Alexandra Sangster
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What would it be like to welcome grief in, to make a small bed for it and to know it would always be with you? What would it be like to actually believe that this life is not all there is...?By Alexandra Sangster
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The story of falling down before false idols (golden calves, racist lies, capitalist cons) is as old as time...So where do we go from here, and what sort of God do we really believe in?By Alexandra Sangster
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The Thwaites Glacier is known as the Doomsday Glacier because it is melting at such a rapid rate and is as big as a small country. How do we turn towards what scares us...rather than away in the comfort of cynical collapse?By Alexandra Sangster
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Big tree down in the forest- The Tarkine, The Father and Faith
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A 3 meter tree is felled in the Tarkine.St Paul recognises that the Holy Spirit is the one in whom we live and move and have our being...and our hunger for The Father (and for elders) is ever with us...By Alexandra Sangster
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We all do impossible things..every single day. Jesus invites us to walk on water..do you have the courage to take the hand of those around you and dance on the waves together?By Alexandra Sangster
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A sower, a seed, the hottest day and Rachel Carson
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Here in Naarm it's the bleak midwinter but all over the world we have reached a global temperature of 17 degrees. How can we be the reception soil that grows a people prepared to fight for our future?By Alexandra Sangster
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Fertility - God and the Oak Grove and what gets in the way of you leaping up?
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Fertility - God and the Oak Grove and what gets in the way of you leaping up? by Alexandra SangsterBy Alexandra Sangster
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A truck collides with a bus.Jesus rises..up, up, up.Its Ascension Day again and we are asking the big questions..where is God when the world goes dark?By Alexandra Sangster
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Meditation on Hope: Anzac Day and the Road to Emmaus
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Our government is spending big arming for war with nuclear submarines. Have we lost hope in peace? And how can HOPE be restored?By Alexandra Sangster
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Making radical change is hard but we all have to do it..stepping through the many thresholds of our lives..today Jesus rides through the Beautiful Gate and nothing can ever be the same again...what gateway will you step through this Easter?By Alexandra Sangster
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Alex Podcast - It Was A Dark And Stormy Night
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The Man. Born Blind: Intergenerational Trauma and new ending to an old tale... John 9: 1 - 41By Alexandra Sangster
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Transfiguration doesn't just happen...You have to climb the mountain first...and moments shot through with glory..they are all around us..in Newtown, in a Bondi Mall, in St Kilda and in your heartBy Alexandra Sangster
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Episode 1 - Crow - Aug 2020 by Alexandra SangsterBy Alexandra Sangster
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Salt and Adani and the Reckoning (Biggest con in corporate history)
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What is the cost of being the Salt for the world?Where do you see everyday examples of Salt in action?And what does it mean to hold the powerful to account...By Alexandra Sangster
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Cassius Turvey, his Mum and the Christ Child: Christmas Day 2023 Podcast
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Where did you experience the incarnation this year? When where the moments were God broke thru and made a manger in your heart?By Alexandra Sangster
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A Royal Commission has finally been announced into suicide amongst ADF soldiers and veterans. The shepherd god has always been a political metaphor..what is it calling us towards today...?By Alexandra Sangster
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God of the Rainbow: First UCA Transgender Minister inducted
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The Ethiopian Eunuch is probably our first LGBQTI convert...yet over 2000 years later some in our church still struggle to welcome diversity. Acts 8:26-40By Alexandra Sangster
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How big is your stable?By Alexandra Sangster
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The Angel says: Do not be afraidand yetwe live in terrifying timesHow can we believe in resurrection when we are still hiding in the tomb?By Alexandra Sangster
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This is not a Good Day, this is not a day where we get to race from the tomb and meet our loved one on the road. This is a day of doing the work of grieving...By Alexandra Sangster
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Corona: The highway man of fear and the casual racism is as old as a woman standing alone at a well.
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The Woman at the Well stands in isolation and Jesus stands with her. How can we be present to each other during this pandemic, not give in to tribal prejudice and love one another across the borders of quarantine?By Alexandra Sangster
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Transfiguration: The murder of Hannah Baxter and her children and the telling of the truth.
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The murder of Hannah Baxter and the outrage at police and media response and the subsequent standing down of a leading Queensland policeman shows that Transfiguration: radical change and truth shining through.. is happening all around usBy Alexandra Sangster
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Blessed are the Owl and the Lyrebird: Beatitudes today
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Thousands of animals and birds are facing extinction because of the fires. And so we mourn...does this mean we are blessed?By Alexandra Sangster
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The elevator pitch and the bushfire spin.
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The Australian Goverment has run with the apathy mandate given to it by the Australian voters...maybe the Bushfires will wake us up.By Alexandra Sangster
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Aboriginal boy locked up, naked. Man found in tombs, naked......
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We all know the story of the man filled with brokenness, hiding in the graveyard...thank god we don't treat people like that anymore...do we...?By Alexandra Sangster
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A New Heaven And A New Earth: Bob Hawke and the lighthouse.
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Post election we are left standing on the edge of possibility...Bob Hawke was a lighthouse leader who helped save the Tarkine..what will our new PM do? Every age needs lighthouse leaders...and each of us have a prat to play in the creation of a new heaven and a new earth...By Alexandra Sangster
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Come listen to Archie Roach and the Whale Man as they live out a the story of the light in the dark. Know what it is to surge up from below.... and find out how the very earthneeds resurrection.By Alexandra Sangster
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I Was Going Too Talk To You Today About Ash
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Two wee boys sitting on a couch in NZ, losing their lives to hatred. The recognition that we are all but dust and ashes.And grace.Always grace.By Alexandra Sangster
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A Few Weeks Ago I Had The Honour Of Presiding At A Funeral
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When was the last time someone did a beautiful thing for you? When did you last do something beautiful for the other....?A story of a swagman, a sister and love.By Alexandra Sangster
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There Are Only Two Feelings: Love and Fear and New Zealand
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How do we tell a story of light when the darkness rises up with such overwhelming force.....White supremacy and the power of love.By Alexandra Sangster
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Im Thinking About Light Now: Transfiguration and George Pell
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George Pell..who here does not feel like weeping?Pity, justice and holy hope.By Alexandra Sangster
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Breaking Patterns in Broken relationships
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Joseph gets what he has coming...doesn't he?An ancient story of trauma and forgiveness and about how the holy spirit can help break the cycle...By Alexandra Sangster
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How the big bang and every tear ever wept..are all connected
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This Christmas we go back to stardust and we remind each other that for the OK people to simply be OK is no longer OK...it is a dereliction of dutyBy Alexandra Sangster
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Community: and how it makes everything possible.
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Angels are all around us, in the most unexpected of places...and sometimes, like with Mary long ago, they give us the courage to be the Braveheart of the world...By Alexandra Sangster
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Scene 1 - How Long You Been Doing This For Mixdown
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Scene 1 - How Long You Been Doing This For Mixdown by Alexandra SangsterBy Alexandra Sangster
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Scene 2 - The Room Is Small Mixdown by Alexandra SangsterBy Alexandra Sangster
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You upon that great height - the old man in the alley
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You upon that great height - the old man in the alley by Alexandra SangsterBy Alexandra Sangster
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Before you die - Crow by Alexandra SangsterBy Alexandra Sangster
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We struggle to admit vulnerability yet the world only changes when we ask each other for help....By Alexandra Sangster
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We remember the dead and invest in weapons to murder the future...
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100 year anniversary of the 'Great war' and Australia invests in memorials and weapons while our returned soldiers fight the goverment for compensation....and meanwhile the wildflowers growBy Alexandra Sangster
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Have we come to the end of the holocene and entered the age of the Anthropocene? What would it mean to become servants rather than masters of creation? And what can we learn from the love of 'Silent Spring'?By Alexandra Sangster
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Breath - we all need it- but why do we focus on the first and the last and pay so little attention to the ones in between? How do we help each other to truly learn how to breathe.....?By Alexandra Sangster
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What can we learn from the Lindworm Myth?
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Four more women murdered and its time to look at the darkness within. What does St Paul tell us about interconnection and being 'the body'?By Alexandra Sangster
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Marriage Equality and the Uniting Church: Lets make history people!
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Its a terrible thing, to be lonely, to feel that you have no home. But God tells us that we are all part of the one family...we are all beloved, we are all equal...By Alexandra Sangster
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How do we bind the strong man... and who is he anyway? Devil, empire or shadow self....whichever you choose... there is work to be done.By Alexandra Sangster
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Time to stand up in the boat: fighting trump’s evil regime.. we can do this together.By Alexandra Sangster
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Pentecost and the day the holy spirit decided to hang out at Saint Vinnies Hospital
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Pentecost and the day the Holy Spirit decided to hang out at Saint Vinnies Hospital.By Alexandra Sangster
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