Articles and Opinions
Planning for Parish Flourishing
How can we have every parish in the Diocese flourishing? Ultimately it is a work of God. He is the one who builds his church (Matt 16:18). But how do parishes cooperate with the work of God to build his church in both godliness and number? One of the aspects of this...
Resources for Prayer for the Ukraine
A letter from the Primate to the Anglican Church of Australia providing two prayers (one for In Times of International Tensions & the other A Prayer for Ukraine) and details of two days of prayer over the coming days. To download the pdf click here.
Bishop Mark Writes … Face to Face this Christmas
Christmas reminds us that meeting face to face is both a blessing and a challenge. As I write many of us are looking forward to being able to enjoy Christmas worship in person. It’s hard to capture exactly what is special about being physically present to each other....
Who’s In? Who’s Out?- by Bishop Stephen
‘To cherish and strive for a Church that welcomes all shades of faith and keeps the sacramental table open for all – the proud, the foolish, the misguided and the over-zealous – takes courage, tenacity and perseverance. In a fractious and divided world; in a time of...
Opinion: Forgiveness by Dr Monica Short
Forgiveness can be thoughtfully examined theoretically through an integrated lens with a knowledge base in social work, sociology, and theology. However, intimately experiencing it seems to me to create a richer awareness of what forgiveness is. My musing on the...
Bishop Carol Writes … Drinking from the Source
I have a friend who speaks often of ‘the vagaries of life’, which, he says, beset us all. This is so true. This week has been a bit like that for me. Last night, as I was writing this article, I received a phone call to say that a lovely young friend, someone I...
Bishop Mark Writes … On Domestic Violence
As a young child I was an avid reader of newspaper comic strips. Along with Fred Bassett and the Wizard of Id one of my regulars was Andy Capp. Andy lived somewhere in the north of England and was never drawn without his cap pulled down over his eyes and a cigarette...
Renewal in Tuggeranong
Renew Anglican Church recently celebrated our 4th birthday, and on that day we were thankful to be able to share in the baptism of two members of Renew; a woman, Prabha, and her teenage son, Theo, who have become followers of Jesus over the past few years through...
Bishop Stephen Writes …
Once upon a time the Sundays after Pentecost were referred to as ‘Ordinary Sundays’. The point was that the Christian calendar which began with Advent in November and a fervent hope for the coming kingdom of God, had now come to fruition in the life of Jesus, his...
Bishop Mark Writes … On Prayer
Sometimes the most efficient solutions are the least effective. Let me unpack that comment by referring to a section from my address to our recent Diocesan Synod. In it I made the following observation on the way in which ‘reset’ seems to have become the preferred...