Rev. Dr John Evans preached this sermon at Queen’s College Fellows’ Chapel Service at the University of Melbourne this week. Matthew 6:24-34 All who live in a university college or associated with a university college know about compromise. There are compromises over the food. My experience tells me there is male food and female food! [...]
“We say killing is disorder. Life and gentleness and community and unselfishness is the only order we recognize. For the sake of that order, we risk our liberty, our good name. The time is past when good people can remain silent, when obedience can segregate people from public risk, when the poor can die without [...]
In one of the very last acts of the Howard Government, Brendan Nelson bought $14 million worth of cluster bombs – weapons that contain mini-bombs, some of which remain unexploded on the ground for years awaiting innocent civilians. It’s the first time Australia has bought such a weapon, and one we would hope the new [...]
by Rev. Dr John Evans Genesis 1:1-2:4a Matthew 28:16-20 The French artist Paul Gaugin escaped France to continue his painting in the South Pacific. He has been variously described as a mad, bad and perhaps having a less than respectable reputation. He is however, famous for his depiction of women and girls of the South [...]
You are invited to an afternoon with Dr Nico Koopman, Chair of the Global Network for Public Theology. Dr Koopman is a Fellow of Stellenbosch University, South Africa and its Centre for Public Theology. He is currently a visiting fellow at Princeton’s Centre of Theological Inquiry in the US. He was involved in the apartheid [...]
We have been praying for our neighbours in Burma suffering devastation beyond our imagination since Cyclone Nargis hit on 2 May. The National Council of Churches in Australia (NCCA) is appealling for donations in order to contribute to the ‘massive and immediate’ aid needed. Please give online or phone 1800 025 101. There are immense [...]
by Rev. Dr John Evans Acts 2:1-21 I Corinthians 12:3b-13 At Pentecost we remember the gift of the Holy Spirit and the birth of the Church. The Spirit came as a “rush of a violent wind” and “tongues as of fire” appeared among them. The presence of the Spirit of God among the disciples and [...]
