--- title: Living the word | Newcastle Anglican Communications description: Living the word --- ![Newcastle Anglican Community of Prayer (1)](https://blog.newcastleanglican.org.au/hubfs/Newcastle%20Anglican%20Community%20of%20Prayer%20(1).png "Newcastle Anglican Community of Prayer (1)") Open main menu Close main menu Posts by: ## Newcastle Anglican Communications ### [Romans 8](https://blog.newcastleanglican.org.au/living-the-word/romans-8) Sep 7, 2026, 1:24:01 PM In his book, “Let Your Life Speak” Parker J. Palmer writes about what he calls “Functional Atheism”: [Read More](https://blog.newcastleanglican.org.au/living-the-word/romans-8) ### [Micah 6:8](https://blog.newcastleanglican.org.au/living-the-word/micah-68) Aug 12, 2026, 12:53:00 PM “He has told you, O mortal, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?” [Read More](https://blog.newcastleanglican.org.au/living-the-word/micah-68) ### [The Kingdom is wider than conversion moments](https://blog.newcastleanglican.org.au/living-the-word/the-kingdom-is-wider-than-conversion-moments) Jul 28, 2026, 8:51:44 AM There was a lot to enjoy in my early job in a guitar shop. But there were a couple of things that pained me in contrasting ways. Stocktaking was tedious. The compensation was listening to music and doing it in company with others. [Read More](https://blog.newcastleanglican.org.au/living-the-word/the-kingdom-is-wider-than-conversion-moments) ### [The story of Zacchaeus](https://blog.newcastleanglican.org.au/living-the-word/the-story-of-zaccheus) Jul 7, 2026, 9:18:44 AM When I was in primary school we were taught the saying, “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me”. As the years have passed it has become clear to me that this is simply not true. Our descriptions about other people matter as do their descriptions of us. In this edition, we are looking at the story of Zacchaeus who is the subject of name-calling and denigration. [Read More](https://blog.newcastleanglican.org.au/living-the-word/the-story-of-zaccheus) ### [The Good Samaritan](https://blog.newcastleanglican.org.au/living-the-word/the-good-samaritan) Jun 15, 2026, 9:34:42 AM The Parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25–37) is so well known that I hardly need to take up space here repeating or paraphrasing it. The legacy of this story is that a Samaritan is universally understood as a good person who helps others, a good neighbour. Newcastle Anglican’s own welfare agency scarcely needs a mission statement; the name says it all. [Read More](https://blog.newcastleanglican.org.au/living-the-word/the-good-samaritan) ### [One in Christ: Galatians 3.28](https://blog.newcastleanglican.org.au/living-the-word/one-in-christ-galatians-3.28) May 25, 2026, 9:58:41 AM [Read More](https://blog.newcastleanglican.org.au/living-the-word/one-in-christ-galatians-3.28) ### [Glimpses of discipleship: Mary of Bethany](https://blog.newcastleanglican.org.au/living-the-word/glimpses-of-discipleship-mary-of-bethany) May 4, 2026, 9:47:33 AM While there are quite a lot of women in the Biblical narrative, they aren’t usually front and centre and there can be a lot of confusion about who they are and what they did. [Read More](https://blog.newcastleanglican.org.au/living-the-word/glimpses-of-discipleship-mary-of-bethany) ### [Ruth: a four-chapter novella of loving kindness.](https://blog.newcastleanglican.org.au/living-the-word/ruth-a-four-chapter-novella-of-loving-kindness) Apr 10, 2026, 9:23:13 AM *Ruth* is told as a domestic love story, yes. But it models a truth people everywhere are experiencing currently in heightened ways day by day. Factors beyond domestic control shape the stories we live. The friendship of Moabite Ruth and her Judean mother-in-law Naomi unfolds against famine, and in the days when the judges ruled. According to the book of Judges, this was a time of ‘decline and anarchy in Israel.’[\[i\]](https://blog.newcastleanglican.org.au/living-the-word/author/newcastle-anglican-communications#_edn1) The marginalised are apt to become more so in circumstances of famine and self-interested government. Ruth and Naomi are both widows, refugees and each at first an alien in one another’s countries, properly on the margins. [Read More](https://blog.newcastleanglican.org.au/living-the-word/ruth-a-four-chapter-novella-of-loving-kindness) ### [Deborah - Judge and Prophet](https://blog.newcastleanglican.org.au/living-the-word/deborah-judge-and-prophet) Mar 23, 2026, 8:53:21 AM The peasantry prospered in Israel; they grew fat on plunder, because you arose, Deborah, arose as a mother in Israel. Judges 5.7 [Read More](https://blog.newcastleanglican.org.au/living-the-word/deborah-judge-and-prophet) ### [Bible Reflection - John 1](https://blog.newcastleanglican.org.au/living-the-word/bible-reflection-john-1) Feb 27, 2026, 12:27:22 PM By Bishop Charlie [Read More](https://blog.newcastleanglican.org.au/living-the-word/bible-reflection-john-1) [1](https://blog.newcastleanglican.org.au/living-the-word/author/newcastle-anglican-communications) [2](https://blog.newcastleanglican.org.au/living-the-word/author/newcastle-anglican-communications/page/2) [Follow us on Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/AnglicanDioceseOfNewcastleAustralia) [Follow us on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/newcastleanglican/)