With the first Climate Week Queensland kicking off this week, Mark Delaney, from St Andrewâs South Brisbane and Australian Religious Response to Climate Change (ARRCC), explains how we can fly smarter to save carbon emissions and help achieve climate justice
Palliative care is important for helping someone leave this life in the best way possible. For patients, it’s about a pain-free and peaceful departure. Knowing that their loved one is at peace in their final stages of life can also help relieve the anxiety families may feel about their imminent loss. Thank you to all palliative care staff for the important work that you do!
Meet Cathedral Coffee on Wednesdays (COWs) coordinators, Rod Rogers and Terry Albone, and find out about their church and broader community volunteer work, hobbies, faith journeys, former careers and travels
Two Australian Anglicans â a young woman with autism and the parent of a child with autism â share their stories of inclusion and respect in parishes: âThe overwhelming impression I got was that the parish community members were there for the common good rather than for their individual needs. As a result of their experience, both my primary-aged children understand church and want to go to churchâ
Meet Phyllis Marsh from West Moreton Anglican College and find out about her current projects, her thoughts on this yearâs National Reconciliation Week theme and on âBeing Together:Â Embracing Joyâ, her go-to karaoke song and what she would write on a billboard
“What are you doing to understand the local context and your churchâs place in it?” asks Dr Stephen Harrison following the release of the Church of Englandâs research report, âFrom Anecdote to Evidenceâ
Over 300 organisations, businesses and community groups have signed a joint letter to all Federal MPs and Senators calling on them to take urgent action on the devastating situation in Afghanistan, including Anglican Board of Mission
âMy own experience being homeless, hungry and cold for six months in my mid-teens has helped me to empathise with those doing it tough on the streetsâŚWe opened our Winter Shelter in the parish hall in early June to provide a safe haven at night for people sleeping rough,â says The Revâd Pauline Harley from the Parish of Toowoomba West, as Homelessness Week approaches in the first week of August
âIn the Queenâs deep, personal, inclusive faith we catch a glimpse of the Spirit at work in the world to reconcile all people, of all faiths and none, to God and to each other,â says Archbishop Phillip Aspinall in this special St Johnâs Cathedral sermon
âAnnually on the first Saturday of May, people across the world gather at their local community labyrinths to join in a coordinated âprayer tsunamiâ, starting in the Pacific and sweeping across the globe. This year Brisbaneâs World Labyrinth Day event will be held at St Johnâs Cathedral,â say Randal and Susan Dennings