Monthly Archives: June 2011

Carlton Conversations @ The Clare – Dr Maria Tumarkin

REVIEW – Carlton Conversations @ The Clare (June 2011) Dr Maria Tumarkin (writer & historian) by David & Shirley Johnson _____________________________________________________________________________ Maria Tumarkin left the Ukraine, as a child, in December 1989, a month after the fall of the Berlin Wall. With their passports marked in the fifth column with the word ‘Jew’, her parents [...]

The mystery who is God?

delivered by Rev. Pam Kerr Sunday 19 June 2011 Genesis 1:1-2:4a Psalm 8 2 Corinthians 13:11-13 Matthew 28:16-20 Today is Trinity Sunday: how do we explain this mystery, which the church calls the doctrine of the Trinity? What does it mean in our lives? Does it make any difference to our faith? I want us [...]

Language of liberation

delivered 12 June 2011 by Rev. Hon. Prof. Brian Howe ‘How is it that we hear, each of us in his own native language? Parthians and Medes and Elamites and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya belonging to Cyrene, and visitors from Rome, [...]

What does Sunny Chen believe?

CARLTON CONVERSATIONS @ THE CLARE What I Believe … & Why?”conversation series 2011 SUNNY CHEN CHAPLAIN QUEEN’S COLLEGE (UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE) Thursday July 21st 2011 6pm for 6:30pm – 8pm Conversation & Dinner – $15 Students/Concession & $25 Adults BOOK by calling 9347 8171 or 0423 407 499 (email direct: australia-dreaming@carlton-uca.org “I believe in a [...]

The Ascension and the power of God

by Rev. Dr Wesley Campbell delivered 5 June 2011 Ephesians 1:15-23 Psalm 47 Luke 24:44-53 Acts 1:1-11 Last Thursday, forty days after Easter, we celebrated Ascension Day (as we do today this Sunday). Here we follow Luke’s calendar. He recalls the importance of forty in the biblical story: forty days and nights for the Noah [...]