Justice & Advocacy
“We realised that up until that point we had been letting homeless people sleep on our property — we had been doing things for them, but not really treating them as part of our community. By opening up our kitchen and inviting them to share our resources…made a significant difference, not just to them, but to us,” says The Rev’d Dr Ann Solari
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“Monday’s event at Cherbourg had originally been organised as part of the Truth-telling and Healing Inquiry commissioned by the previous Queensland Government and cancelled by the current one. Given that the Inquiry had lined up 20 elders to tell their stories, the Cherbourg Aboriginal Shire Council decided to host the event so that those who had gone through the emotional process of preparing for the hearing could be honoured,” says The Very Rev’d Dr Peter Catt
“Priests put a lot of thought, energy and time into crafting their sermons…So artificial intelligence (AI) platforms are being increasingly used by clergy to get more out of sermons so, for example, they can reach a wider audience and engage parishioners during the week,” says St John’s Cathedral Resource Church reference group coordinator Angie Mooney
“Finding ways to do meaning-making is an incredibly important and life-enhancing activity in our society which has a tendency to see things through a utilitarian lens. That is, we look at things in terms of their usefulness to we humans, rather than seeking to appreciate their deeper intrinsic value…,” says The Very Rev’d Dr Peter Catt
“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
“It would be remiss of me not to mention how the organist actually has a certain amount of opportunity to express a sense of humour. Examples of this include the time when I heard an improvisation unmistakably including the theme tune to Wallace and Gromit or when the postlude for the Feast of the Assumption was ‘Hooray and up she rises’,” says The Rev’d Dr Gemma Dashwood OAM
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