Moving beyond ignorance through shared stories
Are you one of the six in ten Australians who have never really encountered Aboriginal Australia?
Good Sam appointed to national ecumenical role
Sister Elizabeth Delaney has been appointed General Secretary of the National Council of Churches in Australia.
Good Sams feature in new book
A new book documents the impact of Vatican II on the lives of 14 Australian nuns, two of whom are Good Samaritan Sisters.
Summer books for the mind and spirit
In this our last edition for 2014, “The Good Oil” invited some of our readers to nominate a book they particularly enjoyed and would recommend to others for the summer...
For the best
Isabella Brown’s poignant piece earned her first place in the 2014 Lionel Bowen Young Writers’ Award.
"One wild and precious life"
Kiribati woman Claire Anterea may not be a Good Samaritan Sister anymore, but she’s “still a Good Samaritan in some way or another, no matter what”.
Joy arises from deep within
Pope Francis, in announcing the Year of Consecrated Life, is calling on religious women and men to “wake up the world” with a spirit of hope and peace, writes Good...
The contradictions of Advent
For more years than I like to recall, the liturgical seasons of Advent, Lent and Easter have exerted a kind of push-pull in me, something like theology versus society, or...
