St George's Paddington

Advent: A Season for Singing

In a consumer culture like ours it has become a financial necessity for the retailers to be the “advent” of Christmas. In shopping centres everywhere the Christmas carols we love to sing appear along with the Christmas trees, decorations and the incessant advertising. Well-intentioned attempts to revive the “meaning for the season” fall largely on […]

Wisdom’s Children

‘Wisdom’s Children’: Biblical Proverbs and Western Culture For our November PEACEtalk Dr Ben Myers shared with us some of the work he has been doing on an upcoming book called Wisdom’s Children: Biblical Proverbs and Western Culture. This work explores the ways in which the genre of biblical proverbs has been assimilated and subversively imitated by different […]

Halloween experience

Last weekend we hosted a Halloween experience. Of course we all know that Halloween is a tacky, sugar-soaked, commercialised, American-import festival of darkness. But it is also the day of the year when Paddington has more families out on the streets than any other: meeting neighbours, engaging their imaginations with costumes and decorations, and sharing fun […]

“We can take still more”

SYNOD CALLS FOR GENEROSITY The Synod of the Diocese of Sydney has called on the government to increase the refugee intake to allow for more Syrian refugees, while calling on Sydney Anglicans to show ‘concrete acts of mercy and generosity’. The final night of Synod was given over to speeches and ideas from the floor […]

A Place for God?

Community of Life – Genesis 1.1-5, 1.24-2.4b; Psalm 104, 1-4, 14-31; Colossians 1.15-20; Mark 7. 14-23 If you were to tell the story of St George’s, where would you begin? With your arrival in the parish? With the renewal under Bruce Wilson? With the founding of the parish in 1889? With the establishment of Paddington as a suburb? Or […]