The following are pieces I have written for reflection and as liturgical resources:
I need to look away - reflection in Holy Week
Prayer based on John 15:1-8
TPMM - The 10% More Movement
Family Issues and Jesus. Reflections on Mark 3:20-35 also available on video
Ask a Roman. A Reflection on Christmas
Donkey - A Story for Children and Adults - vimeo version
God and the
Buses - A Parable
Ting and Ted: Celebrating the Uniting Church's
40th birthday. A Dialogue overheard by Bill Loader -available on
request as ppt
What is the church? Helping children celebrate the UCA's 40th
birthday
Zak - A
Story for Children and All
Jorge and "Squirrels" - a children's story
Lukas of Priene - A Presentation of the Message of Christmas through StoryEaster will have to
be Postponed
Paarweise und Paarweisheit
Hochzeitsansprache
Secrets of the Christmas Story in Matthew
Secrets of the Christmas Story in Luke
You Meet us in Moments of Holiness - Prayer
What Really Happened with Jesus. I wrote this piece for our 9 year old grandson soon to become an altar assistant at his school mass.
A Prayer for Palm Sunday
Graham and the Yellow Envelope - a story for Christmas
A Seed has fallen. A Reflection on John 12:20-33
St Patrick and the Helicopter
Lenten Studies: Reflections on the Gospel Readings: 6 Studies for Lent + A Reflection for Good Friday and Easter Day
See also The Gospel of Conflict
Nelson
Mandela - In Memoriam
John, Jesus, and just You and Me? A Reflection on
Hope Then and Now
Magpie - a set of 10 children's stories
Gay Marriage?
Biblical Perspectives on Gay Marriage and Sexuality generally
For Children: Finding the Lost Sheep -also suitable for Christmas
See also God and the Buses
Listening and telling as Preachers
Love -
a Reflection
Prayer
and Reflection on the Death of a Parent - written for my mother's
funeral and adaptable for wider use
A Very
Special Baby - retelling the Christmas story for my 3 1/2 year old
grandson; you need to add your own illustrations! Mine are only
indicative.
An Order of Worship
for
Good Friday
A Reflection on
Easter in German: Die Familie Osterhase
Earth, Air, Fire,
Water - Studies in Sustainability
Australia's
Day of Apology to the Stolen Generations of its Indigenous Peoples,
13 February 2008
The Zacchaeus Tree - A Reflection
Does the Cross mean "No"? Further
Reflection on Christians and Other Faiths. Also in French:
La
Croix est-elle un "Non"?
Other Faiths: A New Testament Perspective
Dawn - A Reflection
Sacred Mountains - for Transfiguration and
Reflective Occasions
Baptism, Water, and our World a
reflection on baptism
The Christmas Queue - Reflections on
the Journey to the Christ Child. Also in French:
Faire la queue à Noël
God and the Sparrows - a reflection on
divine risk and the cross
Bartimaeus, but where is Jesus? - a
reflection on Jesus' priorities
Being the
Church Then and Now: Issues from the Acts of the Apostles. 5 studies - Study 1 now also in Swedish translated by Weronika Pawlak
Forgiveness: A Reflection on Two Words from the
Cross
A Prayer about God's Holiness; (French
Prière)
Christmas and Cronulla - a reflection on violence and hope
See also a Prayer for the New Year
He made himself known in
the breaking of the bread
Blessed are the Poor in Spirit -
a reflection
Tsunami - and God
The White Ficafolia - a Christmas
reflection
A Reflection
on the Canadian Rockies - a prayer
Caiaphas - Did you know?
A Liturgy for Ash Wednesday
Tree of Life
A Prayer to God, the Spirit
A Service of the Eucharist - for
use within
Worship
God of the Mountain: A Reflection on the
Meaning of the Cross (also in French:
Parlons
de la Croix, le Dieu de la montagne
Wedding Blessing,
Benediction and Dismissal (Two
Brave Ships)
Hochzeitsansprache (a wedding
homily in German)
The Sea of Theology written for the induction of
Revd Dr
Nancy Victorin-Vangerud as Principal of the Perth Theological Hall, 5
October 2002
What makes a person great? Greatness and
God; (French
Dieu
et la grandeur)
The Sadducees’ Question
(Luke 20:27-38)
- a Sequel
The Towers of Hell a comment on the
terrorist attack
Beyond the Good Samaritan A
reflection on loving
On Shore. A reflection on John 21:1-19
Father, forgive them! A reflection
on Luke 23:34
Prayer for Transfiguration Sunday
Dogs Know - a canine reworking of
the Prodigal Son
parable (also in French
Le
chien du fils prodigue)
The Interruption - a reflection on Mark
2:1-12
French
The Enlightenment of a Goat - a reflection
written in India on
Matthew 25:31-46 French
Progress and poverty - a
reflection on poverty
and the 'march of progress'
Ordination Charge For the ordination of Revd
Sylvia Hancock,
Maylands Mt Lawley Uniting Church 13 June 1999
Conversation with an Apple
The Dolphin of Gennesareth
Wind, wind - a reflection on the Spirit
A Prayer for Ash Wednesday and for use in Lent, now set to music by Nathan Waring, Chichester
NEW
The unrepentant brigand: for Good Friday
French
"I was inside" - a reflection on life outside
the
prison gate. - new. First published in Western Impact (French
Libéré de prison)
'Christ-centred mission' - an imaginary
conversation - new -
produced for the Synod Strategy and Extension Working Group
Should I touch him? - a Reflection on Mark
5:25-34; Matthew
9:20-22; Luke 7:42b-48 French
Isaac. - a reflection on Genesis 22
On the Hillside - Perspectives of a Bethlehem
Sheep.
Bones - a reflection on John 6:1-21.
Under the Mountain - a reflection on my early
childhood written
for my mother's 85th birthday 1996.
The Church, property, and buildings - a
biblical perspective.
A Prayer. You meet us in moments of holiness.
A Prayer for the journeyers
Christmas in a time of fiscal restraint - a bit
of serious fun!