Early in 2019, St John’s chorister and local manufacturing jeweller, Roley McIntyre, approached the then rector of Wagga Anglican, The Venerable David Ruthven, with an idea of producing a wholesale jewellery range based on images from St John’s Wagga Wagga. They would...
‘For we are God’s handiwork created in Christ to do good works which God prepared in advance for us to do.’ Ephesians 2:10 Arrernte elder Coco Wallace and I sat in the shadow of Untyeyetwelye. He is the story holder for this sacred space more recently...
Like many events this year the National Parliamentary Prayer Breakfast adjusted to social distancing and ran a livestream event on Monday, 12 October. Groups around Canberra gathered together over breakfast to participate, including a gathering at St John’s Reid. In...
After more than a 100 years without ‘facilities’, All Saints’ Berridale now has a new building which boasts a disabled-friendly convenience and a meeting room with a kitchenette. On Sunday, 13th of September, Bishop Carol visited to worship with the parish, officially...
On Monday afternoon, 21 September, Senator Zed Seselja officially opened our most recent Senior School Building. The opening had been delayed from last year for a variety of reasons and I was delighted to welcome Senator Seselja, and James Milligan MLA, to the school...
The Reverend Ian Marshall was Inducted as the new Rector of The Parish of Queanbeyan District Anglican Church on 23 September 2020. Ian has been Locum for the Parish for about the last two years. Bishops Mark and Carol and Area Dean David McLennan presided. Reverend...
13-20 September 2020 Each year the World Council of Churches (WCC) designates the second week in September as the World Week for Peace in Palestine and Israel (WWPPI). If one were to be somewhat cynical, we could see this as just another of the days, weeks or months...
I greatly enjoy reading the journals and records of the early European explorers in Australia. We must never say that they ‘discovered’ various features such as mountains, lakes and rivers. These were known to the indigenous peoples from the beginning. European...
In a spirit of community-building and healing, the faith communities of Holy Cross Anglican and St Margaret’s Uniting in Hackett in Canberra’s inner north recently hosted a festival focussed on sustainability. The ‘Sustaining Our Future’ Festival on the weekend of...
Canberra’s Radford College hosted a very different Dirrum Festival over Friday 14 and Saturday 15 August. This year’s Dirrum Festival theme, ‘Tipping Points’, was chosen in 2019. As the Dirrum Festival fast approached, the theme felt increasingly apt. The Dirrum team,...
