Missouri Synod theologians had traditionally affirmed the inerrancy of the Bible,
and, although such a term can mean many things, in practice it meant certain rather specific things: harmonizing of the
various biblical narratives; a somewhat ahistorical reading of the Bible in which there was little room for growth or development of theological understanding; a tendency to hold that God would not have used within the Bible literary forms such as
myth,
legend, or saga; an unwillingness to reckon with possible creativity on the part of the evangelists who tell the story of Jesus in the Gospels or to consider what it might mean that they write that story from a post-Easter perspective; a general reluctance to consider that the canons of historical exactitude which we take as givens might have been different for the biblical authors.
At
various points in his fantastically varied
and storied career he wrote position papers on the need of support for a moribund Australian film industry, wrote
and directed numerous episodes of such seminal TV shows as Homicide
and Division 4 for Crawford Productions, was central in establishing film courses
and departments in places such as Canberra
and Brisbane (Griffith University), wrote plays
and performed poems at Melbourne University
and La Mama in the 1960s, directed feature films in the early 1980s (most memorably Ginger Meggs in 1982), made documentaries for the ABC
and SBS (The
Myth Makers, Images of Australia, The
Legend of Fred Paterson,
and numerous others), wrote
and edited such books as Screenwriting: A Manual
and Queensland Images in Film
and Television, helmed commercials for a vast array of companies
and government bodies, contributed film reviews to ABC radio (
and more occasionally TV) across
various states (for almost 40 years), wrote for numerous publications including Overland, The Canberra Times, Metro, The Concise Encyclopedia of Documentary Film, The Hobart Mercury,
and so much more.
Her new series, Nite Fire, is a gritty, action - packed, urban fantasy featuring shapeshifters, dragons, parallel worlds,
and various creatures of
myth and legend.