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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

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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

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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”