. Hi Fighter, A lot has happened since my last post. Most notably, I’ve been to Manus Island, and have visited the asylum-seekers being detained there by the Australian government. You may have already seen the TV coverage we received on Lateline or watched he video on the Getup website. I’ve debriefed our experience in […]
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. Hi Fighter, It’s Father Dave, and I must confess to feeling somewhat exhausted as I write to you today. It’s been an overwhelming month: I’ve been trying to recover from my brain haemorrhage. We’ve had much turmoil in the community (and perhaps in the church, most especially) over our government’s postal vote on same-sex
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Yes, it was going to be the fight of my life but, no, it’s not going to happen. To cut a long story short, I took a big hit last Friday and suffered a minor brain haemorrhage. Hopefully, it’s not the end of my fight career but it certainly is the end of this fight.
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. Hi Fighter, Once again it’s been far too long since we last communicated in this way, and indeed, I’ve taken five weeks of long-service leave since then. My goals in taking that leave were three: To move things forward at Binacrombi bush camp. To finish the book I’ve been working on – “Christians and
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Hi Fighter, It’s Father Dave, writing to you from the middle of the Australian bush! No, I’m not retreating from the Good Fight but I am retreating from the Big Smoke for a while. I am on long-service leave, and will be spending most of my weekends up to the end of May at Binacrombi
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Hi Fighter, Firstly, let me thank all of you who made our New Year’s trip to Syria possible – supporting us financially and with prayer. Secondly, let me apolgise for the time it has taken to feed back to you about the trip. I’ll address my time issues later in this missive, but let me
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Hi Fighter, As usual, it’s been far too long since I communicated with you, and here we are at the pointy end of the year already! I have been flat out: Running some amazing Warrior Weekends Sharing in some fantastic cross-cultural and interfaith bridge-building work Doing plenty of praying and boxing And now I’m heading
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Hi Fighter, Father Dave here with a very belated newsletter. I do apologise for the long lapses in communication. There was a time when I managed to keep in touch with my friends and supporters almost every week. Nowadays I struggle to find time each month, and probably wouldn’t manage it now, except that I’m
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Hi Fighter, At time of writing, I’m on a plane home after a week in Tehran. With the miracle of in-flight Internet, I thought I’d share something of the experience with you while I can, as I fear I’ll be overwhelmed with work once I hit the ground! I was flown to Iran primarily to appear in a
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