Should our life attract or scare?
Beloved ecumenical leader and indefatigable peacemaker Dr Agnes Abuom has died at the age of 73 in Kenya, following a short illness
Clergy Summer School participants from across the Diocese share their highlights and key learnings of the recent Summer School, which is held annually at The Southport School
This Easter initiative by the World Council of Churches Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (WCC-EAPPI) sets out to connect the Biblical narrative with current realities in Palestine and Israel to spotlight the injustices of life under occupation
The Rev’d Dr Ray Barraclough, former lecturer at St Francis College in Milton and former senior lecturer at St George’s College in East Jerusalem, reflects upon the story of a young Christian Palestinian woman, Areej Masoud, who recently visited Australia on a speaking tour
“I am now pretty fit in myself and am spending a few days slacking, on Doctor’s orders, except for writing sermons for Holy Week and Easter and then translating them into Chinyanja. Learning the local language has been a trial for me, but I am aware of the immense privilege I have in ministering to the folk,” as described by The Rev’d Harold Aldwyn Machell Cox CBE, the great-granduncle of Frances Thompson, in a series of family letters called ‘The Budget’, which is held in the famous Bodleian Library
“In the weeks leading up to Christmas Day, Bethlehem was no doubt spoken of from every church pulpit the world over as people commemorated its significance in our salvation story. However, was Bethlehem only talked about in historical terms as it relates to the Biblical narrative or was there consideration given to the life infants are born into in current day Bethlehem?” asks PIEN’S Nell Potter in this season of Christmastide
Find out how you can join in the historic 150th anniversary ‘The Coming of The Light’ celebrations to be held in Brisbane in early July, commemorating when The London Missionary Society and Melanesian leaders landed on Erub, introducing the Bible to Torres Strait Islanders
“We are an ecumenical Order, enjoying the company of mainly Anglican, Roman Catholic, Uniting Church and Lutheran members. The Order came to Australia in 1969…There is a strong Anglican presence locally,” says Charles Clark from Holy Trinity, Fortitude Valley and The Order of Saint John
“The conflict in Israel/Palestine is largely couched in a perceived tension between Muslims and Jews, with little attention given to the Palestinian Christian community who are equally suffering with their Muslim neighbours under the yoke of Israeli military rule,” says Nell Potter