The first event in a series of public lectures by Christian ecological ethicist Byron Smith will be held on Saturday 27 June from 19:30–21:30 at St Georges Anglican Church Paddington. Byron has presented dozens of seminars, workshops and sermons on climate ethics over the last couple of years. Most of those of necessity had to remain somewhat […]

More than 125 years ago the Anglican Church at Five Ways began life as a ‘wayside chapel’ of the large, grand and wealthy establishment church in East Sydney (St John’s Darlinghurst). Times have changed. Since those days before Federation there has been a role reversal for residents of the inner east! Unfortunately the church has […]

As we each reflect on the ANZAC Day centenary out of our own experience and history, there are two good articles that now appear on the ABC Religion and Ethics website. One by my good friend and mentor (and lifelong friend of former rector Clive Watkins) Bishop Stephen Pickard (it will also appear in the […]

For our last PEACEtalk I shared some of my reflections on mental illness and theology. One of the central points that I tried to make was that Christians are not to explain away suffering by pretending that it is a good in disguise. Now we have to be careful here, don’t we? After all, there […]