Hi Fighter, It’s Father Dave, and I’m starting this post on my 57th birthday.🎈 This is my first missive for 2019, but my resolution for this year is to produce a new missive every two weeks – basically, every week I’m not preparing a sermon. This is going to require me to rework the preaching […]
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Hi Fighter, For any of you who didn’t hear, my fight with Billy Kinbacher was a great success. Indeed, it was exhilarating to be back in the ring, and I was lucky enough to emerge in one piece and with a win. My opponent was an absolute gentleman and it was a privilege to fight
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Greetings, Fighter! Yes, it’s on! All the ‘I’s have been dotted and all the ‘T’s have been crossed. We have climbed the requisite mountain of paperwork and overcome all the obstacles designed to prevent people our age from letting loose on each other in the ring! Fighting Father Dave vs. Wild Bill Kinbacher 17th November,
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Hi Fighter, It’s Father Dave back with you after another prolonged period of silence. I haven’t been hibernating through the winter (as attractive a proposition as that would have been). I’ve been doing the usual – preaching, praying, training, fighting and celebrating – and I’ve been preparing for a series of big events. It’s time
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. Hi Fighter, It’s Father Dave, after another prolonged period of silence. So many things have happened since I last communicated with you. Most obviously, I spent a week in Iran, and that was an intense and wonderful experience. I must confess that I wasn’t really looking forward to that trip at all. I’d been
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Hi Fighter, I’m finally resurfacing after a few very intense weeks. Specifically, over the last four weeks I’ve: Boxed my old nemesis, Dimitry Patsouris Helped raise some funds for the men of Manus Island Overseen the Australian tour of human-rights activist, Rev. Stephen Sizer Celebrated Easter All of the above have been worthwhile and exciting
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G’day Fighter, If you’ve been wondering why I’ve published so few blog posts lately, I’ve been flat out putting together two big events, both of which I want to invite you too now. The Fighting for the Men of Manus fundraiser is overdue. The men of Manus Island have been treated so shamefully by this
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. Hi Fighter, A lot has happened since my last post. Most notably, I’ve been to Manus Island, and have visited the asylum-seekers being detained there by the Australian government. You may have already seen the TV coverage we received on Lateline or watched he video on the Getup website. I’ve debriefed our experience in
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