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Fighting Father Warns Opponent to “Say Your Prayers” – Valley Times – 29th June 2006
DULWICH Hill’s ‘Fighting’ Father Dave has a message to the so called ‘Mountain Man’ Geoff Scully ahead of Saturday night’s Pankration Death Match – ‘Say your prayers’. Pankration is a gruelling combination of boxing, kicking and wrestling over three rounds … Continue reading
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Citizen Focus: Father Dave – Marrickville Matters: December, 2007
Father David Smith Is a local icon born and bred in the area and known as the “Fighting Father” or “the boxing priest”. Father Dave is reverend at the Holy Trinity Church in Dulwich Hill and spends a lot of … Continue reading
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Tagged Dulwich Hill, Father Dave, Father David Smith, Holy Trinity, Holy Trinity Church, priest, series, Trinity, violence, work
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Boys and men put under the spotlight – The Valley Times, August 20th 2009
This brief article appeared in anticipation of the screening of the ‘About Men’ documentary on National Television in Australia on August 24, 2009. You can watch a four-minute excerpt from the fiist episode here. The Holy Trinity Gym in Dulwich Hill … Continue reading
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Tagged documentary, Dulwich Hill, Holy Trinity Gym, National Television, SBS TV
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Boxers Line-Up – Canterbury Torch, January 19th 2010
FIGHTING Father Dave will return to his glory days and swap his clergy collar for boxing gloves on Tuesday as part of an Australia Day box-a-thon fundraiser. The Reverend will be greeted by Kingsgrovbe’s Nader Hamdan, fresh from TV’s The Contender … Continue reading
The Punching Priest – On Being, September 1994
Taking on all corners for the Gospel Among other things, Jesus was called a drunkard by his detractors during his time on earth. David Smith, acting rector at Dulwich Hill Anglican Church, Sydney, could perhaps be similarly labelled a “punch … Continue reading
ANZAC Day 2010 (A sermon of remembrance)
After these things I saw, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could number, out of every nation and of all tribes and peoples and tongues, stand ing before the throne and before the Lamb, arrayed in white robes, and … Continue reading
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Tagged ANZAC Day, church, date, Dulwich Hill, edition, Everard Digges La Touche, honour, honour boards, number
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Easter Day (Matthew 28:1-7)
When I went to seminary – to Moore College in Newtown – there was a resident chapel there known as the Cash Chapel (named after the guy who donated it, not after how he paid for it). Now when people … Continue reading
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