Language is not just about the written word and how it is put together. Language is also about how a people think – their world view and the idealistic goals they live by. Nola Turner-Jensen

Glenn Loughrey – poet and priest – offers his writings as a record and reflection of a lifetime’s struggle to express his spirituality and his sense of belonging in ways that respect his Aboriginal inheritance within his Christian tradition.
His writings challenge us to consider other – more ancient – ways of being spiritual in contemporary Australia – and to reflect how language itself is an essential part of this journey of understanding and reconciliation. The book reflects the author’s ongoing journey into and away from traditional religion and belief – taught as the basis of our present existence – back to what is embedded within country and kin.

Glenn Loughrey is an Anglican Priest in the Diocese of Melbourne and the Vicar of St Oswald’s, Glen Iris. He identifies as a First Nations Person and is proud to be Wiradjuri. He is an artist, writer and speaker whose style sits at the intersection of the two worlds in which he lives, the First Nation Heritage of his father and the Englishness of his mother. His art and writing recognise both the originality and the similarity of his two worlds and is an authentic attempt to keep them in conversation.