Words from the streets of Kings Cross and Bondi Beach
About Rev. Jon Owen
“I am the Pastor and CEO of Wayside Chapel. I write with my heart wide open and my eyes looking at life. I am a philosopher, a dreamer, a tower of weakness, a leader and a follower, a husband and a father and I hope to give you a flavour of life by the wayside.”
About Inner Circle
The Inner Circle is a weekly letter with musings on humanity, acceptance, and love from the Pastor and CEO of Wayside Chapel. It often includes anecdotes of life at Wayside Chapel and speaks to anyone who wants to lean deeper into the question of what it means to be human.
Love and Cake
Dear Inner Circle, Fear needs distance to exist, and truth most often comes to us from the edges rather than the centre of things. This
Moving the Future
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
Guided by Voices
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
Pass The Sugar
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
Pedestrian Magic
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
Sparkle and Fade
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
Traveling Man
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
Boyz N The Hood
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
House of Cards
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
Being A Non-Idiot
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