Written for the road.
Biblical reflection drawn from a life of early morning reading, justice ministry, and the long walk with the God.
About the author →Reflections on the Psalms of Ascent · Two Volumes
A devotional travel journal through Psalms 120–134 — the fifteen pilgrimage songs Israel sang on the road to Jerusalem. Written in the register of the road: honest about the distance, attentive to what each psalm opens, unhurried at the places where the text asks you to stop and listen.
Explore the collection →The Book of Job as Cosmic Court Drama
A literary-theological reading of Job in which the go'el stands as defence counsel, the martyrs as witnesses, and the resolution arrives not as a forensic verdict but as a doxological encounter. The courtroom becomes a sanctuary.
Read more →Micah 6:8 — A Three-Part Study
A sustained canonical exploration of Micah 6:8 across three movements: the prior testimony of the whole canon, the Christological embodiment of its three terms, and the ecclesial charter it gives the church. This. Only this. Always this.
Read more →Short reflections drawn from an early morning practice of scripture reading — the kind of writing that happens when a single verse refuses to let you go until you've written your way through it. One word. One psalm. One long murmur.
On hagah — the word that turns meditation into something the whole body does, not just the mind.
On nasa and sabal — the difference between the idols we must carry and the God who carries us.
On the simultaneous satisfaction of the divine attributes — not negotiated tension, but glory.
Twenty-two seed terms from the biblical vocabulary — covenant, justice, mercy, wisdom, presence, trust — traced across Torah, Prophets, Writings, and the New Testament. Words worth keeping in your mouth.
Open the GlossaryRetired pastor. Founder of the Onesimus Foundation, Hobart, Tasmania — a ministry sustaining family relationships across the barrier of incarceration. Churchill Fellow, 2014. A life formed by early morning scripture reading, justice work, and the conviction that the same God who called is the God who carries.
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