Actually I’m Alison, a pastor, preacher, writer and thinker who has been hooked by the story of Jonah.
I’m also an ordained minister of Word and Table in the Baptist tradition, with a deep commitment to each person’s freedom of conscience and a passion for the ongoing wrestle with scripture and God.
From 2016 to 2023, I worked with people of faith, people of no faith, and people for whom faith is a question in beautiful Warrnambool on Peek Whurrong country. It’s a place where keeayang (eel) move through the shimmering landscape, and koontapool (southern right whales) come to calve their young. The waters are blue and the land is vast and the sky billows with clean salt wind.
Now I’ve moved home to Narrm, on Wurrundjeri Woi Wurrung country, and am re-learning this place and its people on my next voyage on the journey of faith. From my balcony, I watch peregrine falcons circle tall city buildings, and hunt pigeons down my inner city street.
This year I am tentmaking (well, data entry), guest preaching, and following wherever the winds of the spirit take me.
If you’d like me to speak at your church or even do your funeral, get in touch.
What you’ll find here are prayers, sermons, reflections and whatever else is caught in the net, some things old and barnacle-encrusted, other things fresh as a bubbling spring.
Alison and the whale 