Sparks of Life

Dear Inner Circle, Lisa and I spent the first 20 years of our married life running what is often described as an ‘open home’, a

Dear Inner Circle, Every community has faultlines that threaten to divide us: the “old” and “the new”, young and elderly, I could go on. Our

Dear Inner Circle, The best presents come unwrapped and go easily unnoticed. Our mission is a bit like that. For those who come here wanting

Dear Inner Circle, Most days, when I leave the Wayside Chapel building, someone will walk with me for a while. Sometimes it is to the

Dear Inner Circle, Our underlying ethos holds that no one is a problem to be solved, they are a person to be met. This leads

Dear Inner Circle, Some conversations leave you floored. The wisdom gained from listening to a situation from a different perspective is a gift for those

Dear Inner Circle, A few years ago now, two brothers walked into Redfern from the country. Their shoes had given up long before they had

Dear Inner Circle, This week the whole country is being asked a strange kind of question: who are you, and where do you live? For

Dear Inner Circle, Sitting out the front of our centre in Bondi just before it opened was a great chance to have a yarn on

Dear Inner Circle, Last week we held a funeral for a much loved member of our community. For me, it was a particularly difficult one.