delivered 29 March 2009 by Rev. Dr John Evans Jeremiah 31:31-34 Psalm 51:1-12 Hebrews 5:5-10 John 12:20-33 The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. (John 12:23) Lives can change in a second. In the split second of a car accident, or an incident in war, personal and national destinies can [...]
Imagine a community support programme that saw two-thirds of Carlton public housing residents entering the private housing market every five years. What if this programme also meant children from the estate did better in school? And their parents were themselves returning to further education and becoming more active citizens engaged in their community? Is this [...]
23 March, 2009 – 11:32 am
Last month ABC broadcaster Phillip Adams interviewed Bernhard Schlink, retired German law professor and author of a number of books including the novel The Reader, now a celebrated and controversial film of the same title (still showing at the Nova five times a day). Born in 1944, Schlink has dealt a great deal with the [...]
delivered 22 March 2009 by Rev. Dr John Evans Numbers 21:4-9 Psalm 107:1-3,17-22 Ephesians 2:1-10 John 3:14-21 Every so often our regular lectionary readings throw up the great passages of scripture – and sometimes in double abundance. That seems to be true today. Give thanks to the Lord, for God is good And his mercy [...]
The ABC and CAN member Renate Howe have made an excellent radio programme aired this afternoon on Radio National. Hindsight is Australia’s only feature radio programme dedicated to social history. It airs at 2pm on Sundays. Today’s programme examined the compulsory acquisition and demolition of ‘slum’ areas in inner Melbourne up to the 1960s, including [...]
Liberty Victoria, one of Australia’s leading human rights organisations, is holding a film fundraiser at the Nova next month. Set during World War II, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is a story seen through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a concentration camp, whose forbidden friendship with a [...]
65% of Australians think we have a Bill of Rights. We don’t. Very few of our human rights are actually protected in Australian law. The Rudd government is considering introducing human rights laws at the federal level, though not in the constitution, but as an ordinary act of parliament, similar (probably) to what the Bracks [...]
delivered 15 March 2009 by Rev. Dr John Evans Exodus 20:1-17 Psalm 19 1 Cor. 1:18-25 John 2:13-22 “For God’s foolishness is wiser than human wisdom, and God’s weakness is stronger than human strength.” (1Cor 1: 25) Like many passages of scripture, I have read this passage many times; even quoted it many times — [...]
delivered 8 March 2009 by Rev. Dr John Evans Genesis 17:1-8, 15-16 Psalm 22:23-31 Romans 4:13-25 Mark 8:31-38 The covenant between God and the aged Abraham and his wife Sarah, is in part recorded in the following way: And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their [...]
delivered 1 March 2009 by Rev. Dr Wes Campbell Genesis 9:8-17 Psalm 25:1-10 1 Peter 3:18-22 Mark 1:9-15 There is so much water in those Bible readings, it is hard to make a start. Ash Wednesday was closer to what we face here in bushfire driven Victoria. The floods of Noah and of baptism seem [...]
