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Social Comment

Sheikh Nimr is greatly missed – Khamenei.ir interviews Father Dave

Posted on March 9, 2016 by Father Dave

It has been my privilege to appear a number of times now in Iranian publications. Not many Australian priests can make this boast, and the reason I am selected so regularly as an Australian Christian voice is quite simple – nobody else … Continue reading →

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Why take a team of boxers to Syria?

Posted on February 27, 2015 by Father Dave

The Imam Husain Islamic Centre in Earlwood invited me to speak to their community about my up-coming mission to Syria on February 28th, 2015. It was a great night. We screened our ‘Boxers for Peace’ video, after which I offered the brief remarks reprinted … Continue reading →

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Noah, the Flood and Same sex Marriage

Posted on June 15, 2012 by Father Dave

Noah, the Big Flood and Same-Sex Marriage A quick reading of the Biblical story of Noah’s Flood might suggest that the only possible relevance of this story to the contemporary debate about same-sex marriage is that God sent this cataclysmic … Continue reading →

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