Songs from a Strange Land: An Australian Advent CalendarScripture readings, quotes, photographs, poems, cartoons and songs take you from Advent to Epiphany with a particular emphasis on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Christianity, the Australian landscape and Creation theology. Author, Celia Kemp writes: This Advent, consider a pilgrimage to where you already are. Set aside time each day from December 1 through to January 6; the Feast of the Epiphany, which marks the end of the 12 days of Christmas.

generously offer theological insights and personal reflections that help us to hear the VOICE of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of faith

sometimes harsh and jarring

The Breach is repaired

And how do I respond

These imagined lives come face to face with the One

this short collection of stories might just begin to assist us to hear the invitations of the Spirit to re-imagine the faith

the paralysed man let down through the roof – and that post-resurrection

and the woman at the well works at a servo ‘in the middle of the arse-end of nowhere

Stephen sets the Son of God as One of Us in the Australian bush - to show us that in our often forgotten parts of the bush

In this transformation

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