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Friday December 20

Large group of inter-faith people at a conference smiling and waving at the camera

It's not what you say, it's what people hear

“Many of the conflicts that arise in daily life are the result of one person thinking that they are saying/writing one thing and the listener/reader receiving something entirely different,” says The Very Rev’d Dr Peter Catt from Resource Church St John’s Cathedral

From preaching to the choir to shifting fence sitters

“My experience advocating for people seeking asylum taught me that you can have a lot of passion and good intention for a group of vulnerable people or an important cause, but that the right words and approach are needed for people to see your point of view or join the movement for justice,” says the Justice Unit’s Peter Branjerdporn, while inviting clergy, lay leaders and advocates in our community to a free online justice messaging workshop, co-hosted by Resource Church St John’s Cathedral, the Justice Unit and anglican focus

(L-R) Michelle McDonald, Dave Andrews from St Andrew's, South Brisbane and The Rev'd Sue Grimmett at the 10-hour 'Nauru Files' live reading vigil outside the Department of Immigration and Border Protection in August 2016

From accidental double agent to more effective advocate

“I suddenly realised that I had been operating as an accidental double agent – simultaneously campaigning to get the kids who were being detained off Nauru, while inadvertently reinforcing the cunningly framed messages of political leaders who sought to keep them there,” says Resource Church Communications and Community Engagement Specialist, Michelle McDonald

Envisioning digital communication with justice: symposium will turn ideas into action

A one-of-a-kind international symposium, ‘Communication for Social Justice in the Digital Age’, will offer a chance to explore new visions for digital justice, public space and actions that will make a difference

Q&A with Climate Advocates Gillian King and The Rev’d Dr Graham Warren

Meet recently Commissioned Climate Advocates Gillian King and The Rev’d Dr Graham Warren and find out how they came to their Anglican faith, what projects they are working on, how others’ kindness has changed them and about their favourite childhood memories

UN International Day of Peace: call to prayer

Bishop Philip Huggins, President of the National Council of Churches in Australia, calls us to pray on the UN International Day of Peace on 21 September: “Peace, in the Christian understanding, is both a divine gift and our task as we respond to Jesus’ call, in the Sermon on the Mount, for peace-makers”