Fiona Hammond

SONGS FROM A STRANGE LAND: AN AUSTRALIAN ADVENT CALENDAR

A bible study for Advent (or any time) with a focus on the Australian environment and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Christianity. You can order the book online or download as a free App for iPhone and Android.

Find the resources here: ABM Advent to Epiphany pilgrimage

Scripture readings, quotes, photographs, poems, cartoons and songs take you from Advent to Epiphany with a particular emphasis on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Christianity, the Australian landscape and Creation theology.

Author, Celia Kemp invites you to “consider a pilgrimage to where you already are. Set aside time each day from December 1 through to January 6; the Feast of the Epiphany, which marks the end of the 12 days of Christmas.”

Find a quiet place close by with some sort of nature component (a pot plant, a tree, a park bench, a beach, a back yard). If you can, place yourself where the sky meets the land.

Take a bible, a journal, a pen and read. Watch. Listen. Stay awake. And see what happens.