The this Church Times podcast the Bishop of Chelmsford, Dr Guli Francis-Dehqani speaks of the weariness in the church and in society at large and her discomfort with the relentless call to numerical growth. Well worth 30 minutes of your time. (See an excerpt below:)
There was my daughter Makayla dancing in the darkness – just spinning around, saying, ‘Look at me, Daddy’. I said, ‘Makayla, you need to go to bed, its 3 am. You need to go to bed.’ But she said, ‘No, look at me, Daddy. Look at me.’ And she was spinning, barrettes going back and forth, pigtails going back and forth. I was getting huffy and puffy wanting her to go to bed, then God spoke to me. ‘Look at your daughter! She’s dancing in the dark. The darkness is all around her but it is not in her!’ Makayla reminded me that weeping may endure for a night, but if you dance long enough joy will come in the morning. It is the job of preachers….to [send] this word to us in the hardest of times: do not let the darkness find its way in you. (Brous 2024:130)
In offering the Anglican Church Southern Queensland Apology to LGBTQIA+ people at Pride Evensong 2024,
This 13th annual Brisbane lecture marks the United Nations International Day of Peace. The horror
An apology is just one step on a much longer journey of healing – it does not end the process we have started. The work, we must do, to build some trust and credibility is to live into the apology in our churches, schools and other agencies: this will mean changes to behaviours, language and policies among other things. I know that we have much work to do.
On RUOk? Day Archbishop Jeremy Greaves has written to Brisbane clergy with encouragement to move
Over the course of its history the Anglican Diocese of Canberra and Goulburn has been at the forefront of the extension of women’s ministry to the three orders of ordained ministry.. However, not all is as it should be or might have been expected. This report examines why levels of leadership among women in parish ministry have gone backwards despite this long-term commitment to their access and involvement in ministry as deacons, priests and bishops.
Anne Van Gend, priest, author and ministry educator, joins the podcast to explore how we
This I believe. Earth is our only home,and every creature is our neighbour,from the tiniest
A sermon from Vivienne Hayward, Darwin Cathedral. On January 6, 1941, the newly elected President
From the Rev’d Dr. Cathy Laufer, Diocese of Southern Queensland Schism in the Church is
Reflections from LGBTIQA+ Anglicans in response to GAFCON’s announcement of the “Diocese of Southern Cross”…
