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National Reconciliation Week 2025: Reflections, insights and inspiring First Nations leaders

Josii Hargreaves from St John’s College within the University of Queensland, Jennifer Stevens from The Parish of Mudgeeraba and Walters Nkemfack from Reconciliation Queensland reflect on their National Reconciliation Week highlights and what this year’s National Reconciliation Week theme “Bridging Now to Next” means to them

(L-R) Cenk Yuksel (Strategic Property Development Manager, ACSQ), Matthew Patterson (Architect, Ceccato + Architects), Archbishop Jeremy Greaves, Bishop John Roundhill, The Rev'd Dr Timothy Nicholson (Rector, St Luke's, Ekibin) and Catriona Macgregor (Acting Manager, Early Years, Anglican Schools Commission) in the St Luke's Anglican Church sanctuary on 18 December 2024 during the St Luke's campus redevelopment
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Parish campus redevelopments: tips, surprises and learnings

“The Parish of Ekibin’s campus redevelopment is six years into the planning and 13 months into the ‘build’…I have learnt much during the process and even made some surprising discoveries,” says The Rev’d Dr Timothy Nicholson from St Luke’s, Ekibin

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Join the grassroots movement tilling the soil for spiritual planting

“We spent 2024 visiting Deaneries across our Diocese to ask about current faith formation needs. Universally, people said they want to be more relaxed when talking about their faith…People asked for something to help them connect positively about spiritual things with people in the wider community without a Church background,” says Fiona Hammond from FormEDFaith, as she introduces exciting new resources ahead of the Hope25 season

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"Like the cyclone, the trajectory of our common life is far from straightforward or linear"

“Saturday was International Women’s Day. It is the day on which we acknowledge that the vision my 13-year-old self of 50 years ago thought would be achieved in a few short years is still years away from being achieved. In fact, the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report suggests that at the current rate of progress gender economic equality is still 134 years away,” says The Very Rev’d Dr Peter Catt