Reflections
Four more faithful clergy and lay people from across our Diocesan Regions share their Synod highlights and learnings with anglican focus readers, including The Rev’d Catherine Govan, Uncle Milton Walit, Margaret Compton and The Rev’d Canon Bruce Boase
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Midwife and tertiary educator Josie Greaves visited Masig and Poruma islands, two low-lying islands in the Torres Strait, in May 2024 with Archbishop Jeremy Greaves, Aunty Dr Rose Elu and Justice Enabler Peter Branjerdporn to witness the impacts of climate change on peoples’ islands, cultures, livelihoods and spirituality
“Seeing for myself just how serious the issue is in some places and the damage that has been done and the struggle for people to get people to listen and particularly Government to commit to proper funding to help with the…seawalls and sandbags and to do that properly…We saw the coastal erosion and heard stories about where the beach used to be and the houses that are no longer there because the land has become so eroded. In a couple of places we saw where the bones of ancestors had been washed out to sea,” says Archbishop Jeremy Greaves in his 4MW Radio interview with Aunty Jen Enosa
Archbishop Jeremy has echoed the urgent call of Torres Strait Islander Traditional Owners to limit global average surface warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial temperatures following his recent visit to Poruma and Masig Islands
“Dr David Livingstone has long been a hero of mine. In 1841 he was sent as a medical missionary to South Africa by the London Missionary Society. Recently, I was the successful bidder at an online auction for a medallion celebrating the centenary of the London Missionary Society in 1895. It is a beautiful medallion and it motivated me to learn more about the society,” says Dr Peter Lewis
Hear Aunty Dr Rose Elu share about the history and significance of The Coming Of The Light to the Torres Strait Islander peoples, about the Queensland Museum’s month-long Island Futures exhibition and her 2021 Queensland Senior Australian of the Year Award
“Our spirituality lies in the sea, sky and land and since time immemorial our people have believed in a Creator, but we did not know that the Creator was the Christian God. The Coming of the Light commemorates the Gospel coming to us and giving us a name for the Creator,” says 2021 Queensland Senior Australian of the Year, Aunty Dr Rose Elu
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