“When invited to offer a reflection in the Cathedral’s ‘Mystics, Theologians and Gob-botherers’ series I thought there was an opportunity for me to better understand the life and legacy of Dr Wangari Muta Maathai, whom I had some sense of as a Kenyan environmentalist, and someone who had inspired many people around the world to plant trees,” said Bishop Cam Venables in his recent St John’s Cathedral address
“I guess we could imagine Jesus saying to his disciples, ‘we few, we happy few, we band of [sisters and] brothers…’ because the odds were definitely against them. However, his vision and his way of being in the world seemed to consistently offer something different to violent pathways in conflict,” says Bishop Cam Venables
Queensland’s refusal to extend foster care for its most vulnerable young people is “bewildering” given most Australian states now offer care to the age of 21, national Home Stretch Chair Paul McDonald said recently at the launch of a new series of videos in Brisbane featuring the lived experience of those in the foster care system
The slow rollout of construction projects from Tuesday’s Budget shows that we should be investing in social housing, says Anglicare Australia
Anglicare Australia has said that the moratorium on evictions, announced by the Prime Minister, will offer protection for millions of renters
Anglicans from across the Pacific have joined in celebration to ordain and install The Most Rev’d Sione Uluilakepa as Bishop of Polynesia and welcome him as an Archbishop of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia
“My favourite NAIDOC Week memory is coordinating my first all-First Nations fashion parade in the Queen St Mall in 1988…My whole aim was to break down barriers in the arts, fashion, modelling and advertising industries,” says Quandamooka and Bundjalung woman Aunty Sandra King OAM
Meet Naomi-Kate Colledge and find out about her various Diocesan roles, her forthcoming festival performances, future plans, secret skill and what she does in her free time
St Augustine’s, Hamilton celebrates its centenary this year and the parish has quite a story to tell with 100 years of history and a quirky mystery
An inaugural festival of health and well-being was recently hosted by the Bundaberg Parish Anglican Support Ministry, supported by St Luke’s Anglican School, with a particular focus on caring for women at risk of homelessness