2021 Diocesan Synod reflections: highlights and learnings
Four clergy and lay people from across our Diocesan Regions share their Synod highlights and learnings with anglican focus readers
Four clergy and lay people from across our Diocesan Regions share their Synod highlights and learnings with anglican focus readers
When The Rev’d Canon Dr Marian Free felt God calling her to the priesthood in the early 1980s, women could not be ordained in the Anglican Church in Australia. Despite this obstacle, she held fast to her call and mission, becoming a founding member of the Movement for the Ordination of Women in Brisbane
“I suspect the tendency to very quickly retreat into our bunkers, and to start actively protecting ourselves by attacking ‘the opposition’ is driven, at least in part, by the way people feel so certain about their positions – such that if anyone disagrees, they must be fundamentally wrong,” says The Rev’d Andrew Schmidt
Reflecting on two recent Anglican conferences, Archbishop Phillip Aspinall explores how we can live in harmony with ourselves and others: “How can we live in harmony as one church when we have deep convictions that seem to be directly opposed to each other?”
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