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No Excuse for Disrespect
12
Jun
By malenyanglican
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No Excuse for Disrespect

The desecration of Mt Beerwah with vandalism and the words “Jesus saves just ask him” is a thing to be horrified by. Cut into the rock at a place of ceremony and cultural significance, this was an act of violence against creation and against the people whose continuing relationship with this place is sacred. To the Jinibara people, I am sorry. This act does not represent the life-cherishing faith I know. There is no excuse for vandalism or disrespect. Nor can there be any religious credibility in the words “Jesus saves” (or any other words) when used to hurt or…
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A Statement on the Church of Uganda
11
Jun
By malenyanglican
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A Statement on the Church of Uganda

From Archbishop of Canterbury's Statement on the Church of Uganda | The Archbishop of Canterbury 09/06/2023 The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Revd Justin Welby, said today:  “I have recently written to my brother in Christ, the Primate of Uganda, Archbishop Stephen Kaziimba, to express my grief and dismay at the Church of Uganda’s support for the Anti-Homosexuality Act. I make this public statement with sorrow, and with continuing prayers for reconciliation between our churches and across the Anglican Communion. I am deeply aware of the history of colonial rule in Uganda, so heroically resisted by its people. But this is not…
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Ordination of women in The Murray
03
Jun
By malenyanglican
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Ordination of women in The Murray

The Diocese of the Murray has voted to ordain women priests the 20th of Australia's 23 diocese to do so, 31 years after the first ordinations of women in this country. Women remain unable to be ordained priest in the Dioceses of Sydney, Armidale and North-West Australia.
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A Christianity that is bland and unchallenging
23
Apr
By malenyanglican
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A Christianity that is bland and unchallenging

On The Feast Day of St GeorgeThe persecution of Christians by the Emperor Diocletian at the beginning of the 4th century AD was objected to by St. George, who resigned from his military office as a sign of protest. When the emperor’s order against the Christians was torn up by St. George, Diocletian was furious. In an attempt to force St. George to renounce his Christian faith, he was imprisoned and tortured by the emperor’s men.  The saint, however, refused to reject his faith. Seeing that their efforts were of no use, St. George’s jailers had him dragged through the…
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Lest we forget
20
Apr
By malenyanglican
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Lest we forget

We remember each man, woman and child who has diedhoping the light of freedom, justice and humanity may shine…We remember all Australians and New Zealeanders who served in the army, navy and air force during the first World War.Make us good stewards of the freedom they won. We remember those of other nations who fought beside them, and those who fought against them for their own countries.Bring us all to the day when nation no longer makes war against nation. We remember the physically wounded and the shell-shocked.Bring healing and peace for body, mind and spirit to all who are…
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Supporting the Uluru Statement from the Heart
19
Apr
By malenyanglican
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Supporting the Uluru Statement from the Heart

From this Anglican Focus piece by Bishop Cameron Venables: Last year’s Diocesan Synod affirmed the ongoing work of our Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP), which encourages the fostering of positive relationships at a local level. The work of Reconciliation is not just local, there are inevitable implications for us nationally, which is one reason why our Diocesan RAP supports the Uluru Statement From the Heart, including the Voice to Parliament. I think supporting the Voice to Parliament is well grounded in the third element of our Diocesan Mission statement in which we, “…seek to transform unjust structures of society, to challenge violence of…
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The Woman Who Didn’t Need Fixing
26
Feb
By malenyanglican
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The Woman Who Didn’t Need Fixing

It is said that if you educate a man you raise an individual but if you educate a woman you raise a nation. According to CARE Australia, when a woman overcomes poverty, she brings at least four others with her. Women are multipliers – to invest in a woman is to invest in family, communities and society. Wherever women’s voices have found empowerment, health outcomes improve, just systems emerge and sustainable practices are more widely embraced. Women are agents of change, yet remain dramatically under-represented in decision-making bodies from parliament to boardrooms to religious institutions. Yet women are still told…
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Modern Day Beatitudes
13
Feb
By malenyanglican
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Modern Day Beatitudes

by Dave Andrews Blessed are the strange, the weird, the people we laugh at, those who do not fit our mold, especially the socially wretched and despised. By their presence in our lives, their mission is to expand our reality — on our part, reluctantly and on theirs, so painfully — by forcing us to look at them in the hope that we see God in them. Blessed are the depressed and the addicted for they are called upon to demonstrate the healing miracles of God through their own awakening and liberation. Blessed are the broken, those who fail, those…
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A Poem for a New Year
31
Dec
By malenyanglican
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A Poem for a New Year

The CallRichard Wehrman It’s not the day on thecalendar that makes theNew Year new, it’s whenthe old year dies that the newyear gets born. It’s when theache in your heart breaksopen, when new love makesevery cell in your bodyalign. It’s when your babyis born, it’s when yourfather and mother die. It’swhen the new Earth isdiscovered and it’s theground you’re standing on.The old year is all that isbroken, the ash left from allthose other fires you made;the new year kindles fromyour own spark, catches flameand consumes all withinthat is old, withered and dry.The New Year breaks outwhen the eye sees anew,when…
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