27 October, 2009 – 9:19 pm
delivered 25 Oct. 2009
by Rev. Dr Brian Howe & Dr Andrew Turner
Brian: Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens and others have sparked a debate around science and religion, atheism versus faith, stimulating a public interest in religion not seen since the ‘death of god’ controversy in the 1960s.
Richard Dawkins is his book The God Delusion most aggressively [...]
19 October, 2009 – 7:27 am
delivered on 18 October 2009
by Rev. Dr John Evans
Job 38:1-7, (34-41)
We rarely ask about the meaning of life when everything is going well. If we have money enough to have a good life, good health and strong relationships – why would you question? Indeed what you believe must be true, or what you have drifted [...]
18 October, 2009 – 7:31 pm
Early on Saturday morning, 17 October 2009, a group of CAN members was joined by several adult literacy teachers in the Ruth Sugden Tower room, first for a delicious breakfast and then to listen to Snoeks Desmond from Durban, South Africa.
Snoeks is an early childhood development and family literacy expert who spoke about her work [...]
12 October, 2009 – 7:04 am
delivered 11 October 2009
by Rev. Dr John Evans
Job 23:1-9, 16-17
Mark 10:17-31
On the 19 July 2009 President Barack Obama gave a speech on the occasion of the centenary of the founding of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the great US civil rights organisation. The speech sort of had two parts. Now apologies [...]
5 October, 2009 – 7:09 am
delivered on 4 October 2009
by Rev. Dr John Evans
Mark 10:2-16
Early in the service of baptism, Jeff and Sue were asked the question, what do you want of God’s Church for Lucy? Their answer was: “We ask that she be baptised into the faith and family of Jesus Christ.”
Among the many dimensions of baptism, baptism is [...]
3 October, 2009 – 11:10 pm
We are all encouraged to give to the Uniting Church’s International Disaster Appeal which is jointly for survivors of the recent catastrophic events in Samoa, Tonga, Niue, the Philippines and Indonesia.
Many members of the Church of All Nations have close personal connections and knowledge of the places and people affected. How many Australians do you [...]
