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Practising Peacemaking

Wednesday June 16

Prayer Tree helps students to practise peacemaking

Ten inspiring Year 6 Leaders from The Springfield Anglican College share about their wonderful Prayer Tree project and how prayer is helping them to focus on ‘Being Together: Practising Peacemaking’ in the lead up to Christmas

The Five Marks of Mission: Four – to transform unjust structures of society, to challenge violence of every kind and pursue peace and reconciliation

In the continuing ACNS series on the Five Marks of Mission, the Episcopal Church of South Sudan is involved in the process of peace making and peace building and in speaking out against gender-based violence, rape and child marriage

Shalom: the heart of peacemaking

“Shalom can be present only when relationships with others are full, complete, healthy…Shalom describes what salvation is – people at one with God and with each other,” says Archbishop Phillip Aspinall

Packing up, but not putting away

“Christmas is now over…As we put away the lovely nativity scenes, I wonder about the continuing relevance of the nativity for us as contemporary Christians,” says The Rev’d Andrew Schmidt

Archbishop's Message 2020

“Over the next three years, our main umbrella theme is ‘Being Together’. Then in each year we will focus on a particular subtheme of Being Together. For 2020, ‘Practising Peacemaking’ is the key way we will explore Being Together. So, why Being Together? And, why Practising Peacemaking?”

‘Being Together’: 2020 to 2022 annual Diocesan themes

“The Church is called to reconcile conflict and to transcend divisions. The Church is called to live in a profoundly different way and to be a sign and agent of that unity which is God’s will and God’s gift,” says Archbishop Phillip Aspinall, as he announces the forthcoming annual Diocesan themes