delivered 24 May 2009
by Rev. Dr John Evans
Acts 1:15-17, 21-26
Psalm 1
1 John 5:9-13
John 17:6-19
Desmond Tutu, in speaking of the apartheid struggle in South Africa, says that he was sustained in those arduous years by the knowledge that around the world people were praying for him, and for the end of apartheid. This gave him [...]
Pax Christi is hosting and ideas forum exploring how Christians and Muslims can work together for peace with justice. Among the distinguished speakers is our own Wes Campbell.
Click here for further details of this event to be held in Elsternwick on Sunday 21 June.
delivered 17 May 2009
by Rev. Dr John Evans
Acts 10:44-48
Psalm 98
1 John 5:1-6
John 15:9-17
Jesus says to his disciples while they share the last supper:
“You are my friends if you do what I command you.”
And of course what he had commanded them to do was, ‘to love one another’ as he had loved them (John 15:14).
Friendship is [...]
Professor Brian Howe, “one of Australia’s leading thinkers on social policy,” contributed a guest column to this month’s staff news at Melbourne University:
The right of the disabled to become equal citizens
During the past 25 years disability policy has increasingly been anchored in a human rights philosophy, which has been encouraged by the United Nations and [...]
delivered 10 May 2009
by Rev. Dr John Evans
Acts 8:26-40
Psalm 22:25-31
1 John 4:7-21
John 15:1-8
On Thursday Bev Campbell’s book, Reading the Fine Print, a book about the Victorian Adult Literacy and Basic Education Council was launched. Many of us were there. It was a good night. Congratulations to Bev on the book!
There was one comment at the [...]
delivered 3 May 2009
by Rev Dr John Evans
Acts 4:5-12
Psalm 23
1 John 3:16-24
John 10:11-18
Carlton does not have much to do with sheep. There might be a sheep at the zoo; the Collingwood farm has some. You might see a dead one on a rack in Donati’s in Lygon St – but there are no sheep here. [...]
