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Why does Australia want to be so suicidal?

Australian leadership is no longer an embarrassment at UNFCCC COPs. Nonetheless, Australia’s participation in the fossil fuel industry, including...

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Pearls and Irritations

Philip Huggins

Peacemakers for our wounded humanity

Has there ever been a more important time for peacemaking with a universal consciousness? In Interior Castle St. Teresa of Avila writes from her...

31.03.2024 9

Pearls and Irritations

Philip Huggins

The Cross: What do we bring to the Cross this Holy Week 2024?

The Cross speaks to us of how we find God in places where compassion is needed. Those places in our own hearts and circumstances where we feel most...

28.03.2024 9

Pearls and Irritations

Philip Huggins

Thinking about peacebuilding in Australia on St Patrick’s Day

You would think that the suffering we are now seeing, including on and after October 7, would also compel international leaders to negotiate a...

16.03.2024 7

Pearls and Irritations

Philip Huggins

Here, while others are not: A meditation on peacebuilding

When our father was one of those Australian soldiers fleeing the advancing Nazi army in Greece, an aircraft suddenly appeared. He jumped into a ditch...

24.02.2024 9

Pearls and Irritations

Philip Huggins

Division, terrible suffering, and learnings about peacebuilding

Amplified by the terrible sufferings in many places, and by the divided voices, especially as regards Israel/Gaza, we have some learnings about...

20.01.2024 20

Pearls and Irritations

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Flourishing democracy: Australia and a 2024 of beauty

In Australia, despite the relentless misery conveyed in daily media, we have so much beauty to appreciate, and so much freedom to create more beauty. ...

06.01.2024 9

Pearls and Irritations

Philip Huggins

This Christmas, live the choice of healing, not harm

Out of our hearts can come thoughts that are pure and beautiful or “evil intentions, murder…” What we think and let influence our thinking...

23.12.2023 10

Pearls and Irritations

Philip Huggins

UNCOP28 at a time of international stress and vivid suffering

At UNCOP28, clear-eyed, we persist. And not without hope. There is a saying; ‘Pessimism of the intellect; optimism of the will.’ The time to have...

06.12.2023 5

Pearls and Irritations

Philip Huggins

The relational consequences of October 7

Overhead, suddenly, there was a noisy helicopter. I didn’t look up. Then I noticed that I hadn’t looked up. If I was in a place of terror from the...

12.11.2023 7

Pearls and Irritations

Philip Huggins

The Crumpled Heart and the role now of wounded healers

The scars from mean words and actions can last a long, long time. After the outcome of the Voice Referendum, and as the suffering in Israel and Gaza...

19.10.2023 5

Pearls and Irritations

Philip Huggins

Imagine a day when the whole planet was at peace

The UN International Day of Peace is next week, September 21st. It is a day for rekindling our noblest aspirations. Imagine even a day when the whole...

14.09.2023 7

Pearls and Irritations

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