“What really interests me is that, given our notions of beauty might be different from person to person or culture to culture, the presence of God can be found in all kinds of situations, places, people, artworks, and music,” says Jonathan Sargeant from St Francis College
Matthew Flinders Anglican College student siblings Liam and Lachlan Booth have taken out top prizes for their music compositions at the recent Australian Society for Music Education Queensland Young Composers Competition
“Art, like faith, risks itself within a world that is there not as a given to be reproduced, but as a blessing to be offered, shared and formed,” says Dr Peter Kline from St Francis College
While Christians around the globe prepare to celebrate Easter, military occupation continues to severely impact communities in the same places where Jesus himself is said to have walked in the Easter story. An Easter initiative by the World Council of Churches Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel now sets out to connect the Biblical narrative with current realities in Palestine and Israel, to spotlight the injustices of life under occupation
“If someone had said in February that I would be officiating my son’s wedding ceremony with all the guests…‘Zooming in’, I would have laughed in disbelief,” says The Rev’d Donna Petersen, who offers helpful tips on how to run a successful Zoom wedding
As the Queensland Parliament continues its inquiry into palliative care and voluntary assisted dying, Archbishop Phillip Aspinall has signed a joint statement on the provision of end-of-life care, along with 15 other Queensland religious leaders. They are uniformly opposed to voluntary assisted dying, and are committed to the proper funding and availability of palliative care founded on the promotion of human dignity, human freedom and the common good
Meet The Rev’d Canon Gary Harch and find out about his ministry in Brisbane, Gladstone and the Western Region and his plans for 2019
Meet Penny Howchin from Resource Church St Andrew’s, Springfield and find out about her kids’ worship ministry, the Christian heroine who inspires her, what book she has given away the most and what she would write on a billboard
Meet Sarah Plowman and find out about her new role, why she loves being a priest, the kind act that changed her forever and what she would write on a billboard and why
The Anglican Schools Commission celebrated the year’s achievements and highlights, farewelled long-serving staff and school council members, and Commissioned a new Director of Mission at an end-of-year Eucharist and dinner recently