It is our pleasure to promote a presentation of prolific performance poets with a penchant for powerful proclamations. People from the parish and peripatetic pilgrims will participate in a pleasant picnic on the pavement of our parochial piazza with pals and peers. Please procure personal provisions, padding for the posterior and plonk (if preferred). We […]
Being a Church for Others
Why the Anglican Synod Wants Children Out of Detention I have less than five minutes to convince nearly 800 people – mostly conservative Sydney Anglicans – to support a motion calling on the federal government and opposition to end the detention of children…. Can I compel my church, the Anglican diocese of Sydney, to be […]
Immigration policy and child detention
Bernard Stewart, one of St Georges’ lay representatives at the Diocesan Synod (Mon to Wed of this past week plus Mon and Tues this week) reports that on Wednesday afternoon, our rector Geoff made a great contribution in lifting the vision of Synod beyond any concerns limited to the Diocese. Geoff partnered with Rev Dr Michael […]
Chasing the Flame: Being Where it Matters When Justice Seems Doomed
Human beings long for coherent narratives. Indeed, one of the central ways in which we as a species try to make sense of overwhelmingly complex data is by imposing a story onto the world around us. This is a good and necessary thing and without such stories we would find it difficult to answer those […]
An Update From Canon Andrew White, Baghdad Iraq
My Dear Friends, How I long to be able to tell you positive things here. So for a moment I will not tell you the negatives. This is the week of our children’s first communion, it is one 1 of the biggest events in the church’s year. Each day the children come for several hours […]
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