Review of A.J. Jacobs, The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible (William Heinemann, 2008) By Elizabeth Jacobs is an agnostic Jew living in a New York apartment with his wife, Julie, and two-year-old son, Jasper. Having read all of the Encyclopaedia Britannica in a year [...]
delivered on 3 July 2011 by Rev. Dr Wes Campbell Genesis 24: 34-38, 42-49, 58-67 Isaac and Rebecca Song of Songs 2: 8-13 A song of the beloved Romans 7: 15-25a Living ‘under the Law’’ Matthew 11: 16-19, 25-30 ’My yoke is easy’ Last Sunday Bev and I went to an Anglican service. I noticed, [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
By popular demand, the Church of All Nations will host a second screening of Gary Caganoff’s award-winning documentary The Garden at the End of the World. This time it will be a matinee at 2pm on Sunday 5 June. Details here: Garden_at_End_World_flyer_June [1.3MB pdf]. The film features the work of Afghan NGO Mahboba’s Promise. Rev. [...]
The inter-faith dialogue organisation Jewish Christian Muslim Association of Australia (JCMA) is holding a 3-day residential conference at Pallotti College in Millgrove outside Melbourne in July with the theme “Hospitality in our Three Faiths.” Click here for Info & application form for JCMA conference 3-6 July 2011 Email JCMA for further details: registrations@jcma.org.au
A highlight of Holy Week this year will be a one-off screening of Gary Caganoff’s award-winning documentary The Garden at the End of the World at 7pm on Tuesday 19 April. Details here: The Garden at End World — flyer [1.4MB pdf]. The film features the work of Afghan NGO Mahboba’s Promise. Rev. Simon Moyle [...]
27 September, 2010 – 3:52 pm
Sunday 26th September 2010 To: Prime Minister, Hon Julia Gillard Leader of the Opposition, Hon Tony Abbot Leader of the Greens, Senator Bob Brown We write to express our dismay at the policies and practice concerning asylum seekers in Australia. We are distressed at conditions which have led to a death in detention. We know [...]
27 September, 2010 – 3:43 pm
delivered by Rev. Dr Wes Campbell 26 September 2010 Jeremiah 32:1-3a, 6-15 1 Timothy 6:6-19 Luke 16:19-31 Today is Social Justice Sunday. It is a dangerous day. Not dangerous in Australia as it is in Burma or the Philippines, Fiji and countless other places; it is dangerous in those places to speak of justice for [...]
