Michelle Eastwood
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Review of Frontier Man
Frontier Man by Bonnie J Flessen (Resource Publications, 2025) tells the story of three travellers – Batos, Domitia and Virgos – who have heard about Jesus and are seeking the apostle Paul so they can hear more. Each chapter takes… Continue reading
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Review of A Most Useful Betrothal
I feel like I need to start this review with a disclaimer. I am a book purist. I am one of those people who has read the book and complains about all the ways the movie adaptation is not faithful… Continue reading
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Chasing Waterfalls
“Don’t go chasing waterfalls” sang TLC in 1995, the chorus of which has been running through my mind this week. You see at the start of the week I had the opportunity to visit Bua Thong Waterfall in Chiang Mai,… Continue reading
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Reading the Bible Down Under, ISBL Adelaide 2026
I was recently at the International Society for Biblical Literature (ISBL) conference in Uppsala, Sweden and I heard some one proclaim, “I would be happy to travel anywhere in the world except Australia. Becuase they have spiders and snakes and… Continue reading
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At Last
Yesterday a bee landed on my finger. It walked over to my pink nail and checked for pollen before flying away again. It felt like a promise to my six year old self. I had driven eight hours to attend… Continue reading
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Forgive as we have been Forgiven
This is a sermon given at St David’s Uniting Church, Newtwon, Victoria, Australia, on the Second Sunday in Advent, 2024. Continue reading
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Haunted by The Voice
White Australia has a Black History, and we continue to be haunted by it. Continue reading
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Reading the Parable of the Sower
So what if we read the parable of the sower with this frame of privilege in mind…. Continue reading
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In the Middle
This morning I walked a labyrinth. Walking into the middle I had the lines “Where is she? where is she, now?” from the song Doubt Comes In echoing in my head. I like to walk labyrinths by myself. Indeed, if… Continue reading
