Showing posts with label Anglicans. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Anglicans. Show all posts
Monday, 13 August 2018
Monday, 30 July 2018
Friday, 13 July 2018
Eco-Spirituality and its relevance to the Christian faith
What is Eco-Spirituality?
Led by Mercy nun, Sister Veronica Lawson.
Held at St Matthew's Anglican Church, Wendouree
Wednesday, 4 July 2018
Spirituality/Secularism in the Parliament of Australia
The Lord’s prayer would be abolished from the start of Senate sittings and replaced by a statement that includes religious and non-religious beliefs, under a push instigated by the Greens.
On Wednesday the Greens senator Lee Rhiannon will move a motion for a Senate inquiry into the proposed alternative: “Senators, let us in silence pray or reflect upon our responsibilities to all people of Australia and to future generations.”
The move is supported in a letter signed by progressive religious leaders including Fr Rod Bower, of the Anglican parish of Gosford, the reverend Margaret Mayman, of Pitt St Uniting church, and rabbi Jeffrey Kamins of the Temple Emanuel at Woollahra.
Guardian Australia understands the Greens believe they have enough support to set up an inquiry. Senators Stirling Griff and Rex Patrick confirmed Centre Alliance will support the motion, although Patrick noted this is “not the same thing as supporting replacing the prayer”.
Griff suggested the alternative prayer “ensures the moment is more relevant and personal for the individual”.
Senate sittings begin with the Lord’s prayer, a Christian prayer including the words “our father, which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name”.
Rhiannon said the statement that opens parliament “should be inclusive of people of all beliefs and faiths”.
“The Greens are suggesting the proposed new opening statement be referred to the Senate’s procedure committee for a public inquiry that better reflects the secular nature of our country and our parliament,” she said.
“A secular nation like Australia should be free from religious bias and not impose religious influence on citizens or parliamentarians.
“We should work for religious tolerance in the structures of government.”
Mayman said it was “time for the Senate to move on from an opening prayer that belongs to the era when Christianity as the majority religion in Australia was given precedence over other faiths and belief systems”.
“It is time to embrace words that are inclusive and respectful of religious diversity,” she said.
“The archaic language of the current prayer suggests that religious ideas are anachronistic and irrelevant in a pluralistic society.
“The use of the Lord’s prayer is not respectful of Christian faith, as it reduces the prayer that Jesus taught his followers to pray to a rote recitation in this context.”
The letter signed by religious leaders notes the Australian Capital Territory’s legislative assembly begins with a similar non-denominational statement.
“We believe this statement more accurately reflects the multicultural nature of our diverse communities,” it said.
The letter was signed by the Tibetan Buddhist Society of Canberra, the Lebanese Muslim Association at Lakemba and the Quakers at Surry Hills.
Tuesday, 26 June 2018
Monday, 28 May 2018
Social media and a plastic alphabet tiled notice board. The language of the people?
Let me introduce you to Father Rod Bowers!
Father Rod has become something of an institution in Australia in recent years thanks to social media. He is the master of the pithy comment. Many, many love him. Many, many loathe him. I am pretty certain that to-day's comment (the Islamic equivalent of Merry Christmas or Happy New Year for Christians) will drive the fanatics and the bigots nuts. However, that doesn't both Father Rod. Go here and you will find a mass of his epigrams for people to enjoy or be driven nutty. But he won't be stopped!
If you want something a little bit longer and meatier than Father Rod's succinct signage, you can get his sermons. They are erudite and meatier and you can get a feel for the man himself in action. People sometimes wonder out aloud what Father Rod's boss, the Bishop, thinks of all this. First of all, I think everyone in the Diocese of Newcastle is used to all this. Second of all, thanks to electronic media, he has acquired as much or more fame than Jesus did in His day and - what is more - he uses it wisely and well.
So, please join me and many other Australians tonight at 9.35pm. Father Rod - or to give him his precise title the Venerable Rod Bower - when he appears on the ABC current affairs television program, Q and A.
.... and a little more over here.
.... and a little more over here.
Wednesday, 9 May 2018
Funding millions of dollars in redress for survivors of child sexual abuse by Anglicans in Tasmania
Tasmania's Anglican Diocese will sell dozens of historic churches to help fund millions of dollars in redress for survivors of child sexual abuse under a plan that has the state government worried about its impact on the community.
Anglican Bishop Richard Condie has pledged to pay $8.6 million in redress and wants the state to sign up to the national scheme.
The state's Anglican body plans to sell more than 100 properties, including 76 churches plus halls, houses and blocks of land, with about a quarter of the money earmarked for redress.
But state Treasurer Peter Gutwein says people are worried about the community impact of the plan.
He will meet with church leaders next week to clarify "a range of matters" after a number of constituents raised concerns with him.
"I want to understand on what basis the properties will be sold and how cemeteries specifically will be dealt with," he told reporters on Tuesday.
The diocese on Monday released a preliminary list of 78 properties, including 55 churches, it plans to put up for sale.
The full list will be made public after the church's Synod in June.
It will then be open for community consultation, with a final list decided in December.
Tasmania is yet to join NSW, Victoria and the ACT in joining the national redress scheme that stemmed from the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
"We're working through this matter and we'll have more to say in coming weeks," Mr Gutwein said.
"I'm hopeful we'll be able to make a positive announcement.
"Tasmania as a jurisdiction is in a different position to most jurisdictions as we've already run a state-based scheme.
"We need to work through those matters, as well as the national scheme at the same time."
Australian Associated Press
Tuesday, 27 February 2018
Wednesday, 14 February 2018
Kay Goldsworthy reaches a milestone for women across the Anglican tradition
Kay Goldsworthy becomes world's first female Anglican Archbishop
Former Bishop of Gippsland installed as Archbishop of Perth
PHOTO: CHRIS KERSHAW
From The Melbourne Anglican
By Muriel Porter
FEBRUARY 12 2018
In 1984, Melbourne Bishop James Grant ordained Kay Goldsworthy a deaconess. It was a time when, despite more than a decade of intense struggle in the Australian Anglican Church for women to be allowed to take Holy Orders, it was by no means certain that that would ever happen. So Kay, who had first felt the call to priestly ordination as a young girl in the parish of Mooroolbark - a vocation encouraged strongly by her vicar, Gerald Beaumont, later a bishop - accepted the only role then available.
She was, as it turned out, one of Melbourne’s last deaconesses. Just a year later the General Synod passed legislation to allow women to become deacons, the first rung on the ‘ladder’ of Holy Orders. The first ordination of women deacons in Australia happened in Melbourne in February the following year, and Goldsworthy was among the women ordained in that historic service.
So it was fitting that both Bishop Grant and Bishop Beaumont were in Perth on Saturday to see Bishop Goldsworthy become the first woman in the Anglican world to become an archbishop. And Melbourne’s Archbishop Philip Freier, as Primate, was there to bless her and, on behalf of the Australian bishops, to recognise her officially as Archbishop of Perth.
A former Archbishop of Perth, Peter Carnley, was also in St George’s Cathedral on Saturday 10 February. It was he who broke the roadblock preventing women becoming priests when he led Perth Diocese to take the decisive step of ordaining Australia’s first women priests in advance of General Synod legislation after years of stalemate. Archbishop Goldsworthy, who had moved to Perth to become a school chaplain in 1988, was among the first women ordained priest in Australia in St George’s Cathedral March 1992. In May 2008, again in St George’s Cathedral, she became Australia’s first woman bishop, and served as an assistant bishop in Perth until becoming Bishop of Gippsland in 2015.
To add to the succession of historic ‘firsts’ on Saturday, Archbishop Goldsworthy was installed by another woman bishop, the diocesan administrator, Kate Wilmot. Yet another woman, Kerry Sanderson, the Governor of Western Australia, welcomed her on behalf of the wider community.In her sermon, Archbishop Goldsworthy noted, in an oblique reference to the child sexual abuse crisis, that “right now, the church’s trust bank is pretty depleted”. She continued: “The hurt and grief which has been brought to light has wrapped around us, and we find ourselves in totally uncharted territory.” The church, she said, was no longer at the centre of city and community but “on its edges”.“How we look to the future together as church matters. Both for the close-up of our here and now, and as we faithfully give ourselves to proclaiming day by day, in words and actions, the centre of God’s great purpose of love.” We had to commit to the task “not as an organisation in which we feel labelled as untrustworthy” or as an institution which is “tired and useless”, but as “people of faith, living from the deep spiritual wellspring of that place of homecoming in which each and every community, each and every person knows themselves fully part of the Body of Christ.”
Friday, 1 September 2017
FAITH COMMUNITIES COUNCIL OF VICTORIA : EVENTS AND HOLY DAYS
FCCV SEPTEMBER 2017 NEWSLETTER
FAITH AND SEXUALITY DIALOGUE UNITES
A recent event brought together over 100 Victorian faith and community leaders to support a greater sense of belonging for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and gender diverse and intersex (LGBTI) Victorians from diverse backgrounds.ONE NATION LEADER PAULINE HANSON WEARS BURQA IN SENATE QUESTION TIME STUNT
Choking back emotion, Attorney-General George Brandis has received a rare standing ovation from his political opponents for his furious repudiation of Pauline Hanson's burqa performance.MARRIED SUNDAY, FIRED MONDAY: CHURCHES THREATEN TO DISMISS STAFF WHO WED SAME-SEX PARTNERS
Australia's Catholic church is threatening to fire teachers, nurses and other employees who marry their same-sex partner if gay marriage is legalised, in a dramatic move led by the country's most senior Catholic.ANGLICAN CHURCH ELECTS AUSTRALIA'S FIRST FEMALE ARCHBISHOP
The Anglican Church has elected its first female Archbishop, the Right Reverend Kay Goldsworthy AO, to lead the West Australian division.SCHOOL'S 'TURBAN BAN' DISPLAYS COMMON MISUNDERSTANDING OF EQUALITY
Can a school impose a uniform policy that does not take into account a student's religious or cultural beliefs and practices? This issue is being considered by the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT).EDUCATION DEPARTMENT OVERTURNS PRINCIPAL’S DECISION ALLOWING SIKH KNIFE ON SCHOOL GROUNDS
A Queensland principal gave permission to a parent of Sikh faith to carry a knife into a school, but the education department says that's not allowed.CHRISTIAN CHURCHES OFFER SANCTUARY TO ASYLUM SEEKERS AFTER WELFARE PAYMENT CUTS
Asylum seekers in Australia for medical treatment and facing possible return to offshore detention are once again being offered sanctuary by Christian churches.BONDI SYNAGOGUE BAN OVER TERRORISM RISK LEAVES JEWISH COMMUNITY SHOCKED AND FURIOUS
A local council has banned the construction of a synagogue in Bondi because it could be a terrorist target, in a shock move that religious leaders say has caved in to Islamic extremism and created a dangerous precedent.FAITH GROUPS LEAD FIGHT TO BREAK BONDS OF MODERN SLAVERY AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING
Slave trading was abolished throughout Britain's colonies in 1833. But 4,300 people in Australia are currently living and working in slave-like conditions, according to figures from the Walk Free Foundation.YOUTH PARLIAMENT FOCUSES ON RACISM, CLIMATE CHANGE
More than 200 young people participated in this year's Youth Parliament of the World’s Religions (PoWR) in Sydney on August 20.KNOW THESE INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT HINDUS FROM CENSUS 2016?
Hindus welcomed Lord Ganesh into their homes on 25 August as the 10-day festival dedicated to the elephant-headed god.THE GREAT DIVIDE WHERE RELIGIOUS BELIEFS AND THE LAW MEET
In a nation that is increasingly secular, religion still plays a vital role in the way we run our country. In this series, we examine the role of religion in Australian politics and education.FACT: MORE WOMEN GO TO CHURCH THAN MEN
A major new Australia-wide survey reveals an ongoing trend among the pews.RELIGIOUS CLASSES IN SCHOOLS MUST ADAPT TO FIT A CHANGING AUSTRALIA
In a nation that is increasingly secular, religion still plays a vital role in the way we run our country. In this series, we examine the role of religion in Australian politics and education.KEEPING THE FAITH: RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY IN AUSTRALIA – PHOTO ESSAY
For his project The Devoted, photographer Michael Wickham made portraits of religious leaders and spoke to them about their faith’s relevance in modern society.ROBOTS ENTER RELIGION; TO PERFORM BUDDHIST FUNERAL RITES
With Japan's population ageing and shrinking, many Buddhist priests receive less financial support from their communities, prompting some to find part-time work outside their temple duties.
EVENTS
COMMUNITY RESILIENCE FORUM: HUME INTERFAITH NETWORK
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FINDING SPIRITUALITY IN OUR TROUBLED WORLD: ECUMENICAL & INTERFAITH COMMISSION
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'ONE WORLD' MULTIFAITH ART EXHIBITION
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SAFEGUARDING SOCIAL COHESION - “AN INTERFAITH IMPERATIVE”: VICTORIAN LOCAL GOVERNMENT MULTICULTURAL ISSUES NETWORK
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MY INTERFAITH JOURNEY: MOONEE VALLEY INTERFAITH NETWORK
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TOUR TO PLACES OF WORSHIP 2017: GREATER DANDENONG INTERFAITH NETWORK
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MULTI-FAITH ISRAEL ENCOUNTER: AUSTRALIAN COUNCIL FOR CHRISTIANS AND JEWS
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2017 VICTORIAN INTERFAITH NETWORKS CONFERENCE: FAITH COMMUNITIES COUNCIL OF VICTORIA
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HOLY DAYS
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