This week I ‘attended’ the Festival of Preaching hosted by St Martin-in-the-Fields in London and presented by the Church Times-Canterbury Press. To some the phrase ‘Festival of Preaching’ may seem like an oxymoron, such is the bad rap that the medium of preaching...
A huge thank you to everyone who wrote beautiful cards and donated masks and sanitiser to Dubbo’s Anglicare in the Bathurst Diocese. You are wonderful. In early September, The Reverend Sarah Plummer brought to the attention of our beautiful Diocese the high number of...
God gifts his church with everything it needs to serve him, with each member playing their part in different ways. This was evident when the parish of Temora recently responded to a call-out to provide masks to go into COVID Care Packs to assist vulnerable communities...
Religious communities are one of the unsung treasures of Anglicanism. Over the past 200 years they’ve had a disproportionate impact on the life of God’s Church in Australia, doing pioneering work in evangelism, education, and social care. Though traditional...
The South Coast Anglican Schools Board is pleased to announce the appointment of a new Principal for Sapphire Coast Anglican College, to start in January 2022. Mr David Proudlove is currently Deputy Principal at Bayside Christian College in Hervey Bay. He has...
I am aware that some readers may still be thinking through the issues associated with vaccination against COVID. I offer the following as some personal reflections on how I’ve approached these issues. There are many good reasons why someone might choose to be...
Sometimes we cannot escape our pathway in life and I always make a bit of a joke of the fact that there have been clergy in my family since 1312 ( and that’s true!) so what hope did I have! But in all seriousness, I am what I am, a deacon in the church of God, a...
The kitchen clock showed 2.00 pm – time to go. I grabbed my keys, slung my bag over my shoulder and headed for the car. It was a half hour drive along dirt roads to the high school in the next town. The Scripture class I taught was last period. Being a narrow...
On the 6th and 7th August, Radford College was transformed into a buzzing festival venue. A team of over 60 Year 12 students worked hard to pull off a fabulous event that had both an in-person and a live-streamed audience. The theme of the festival was ‘Stepping...
Essential to emotional CPR these days is finding digital balance. The pandemic has deepened that challenge as children learn remotely and their carers are forced to further blur home and work life. Author, adjunct research scholar with the Australian Centre for...
