St George's Paddington

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 […]

Who is my neighbour?

In the Gospel of Luke, Christ is famously asked the question ‘who is my neighbour?’ His response took the form of a parable that would become one of the framing stories of all Western moral and political thought; ‘The Good Samaritan’. However, through centuries of familiarity it is now possible for us to read this […]

The Restorative Christ

For our March PEACEtalk, and the above CPX video, Rev. Dr. Geoff Broughton spoke to us about his new book The Restorative Christ, which seeks to address the ways in which the life and teaching of Jesus challenge notions of justice through the presentation of a radical ‘enemy love’. About The Restorative Christ: The conviction that […]