Lighting a Candle
A sermon for Domestic Violence Awareness Month. This year, we begin this focus month for
Suzanne Grimmett
On the Way: Power and God
How do we talk about God when that word conjures a big other, looking down from a throne in the sky directing the traffic on earth? The language instead of a God who offers power “with” rather than power “over”, draws us into sacred relationship with one another and all creation.
Palestine: a humanitarian and ecological crisis
Despite the popular naming of the conflict as incredibly complex, Professor Mazin Qumsiyeh explains the model is simply settler colonialism, the same motivation and mechanisms experienced by the Indigenous people of Australia.
Domestic and Family Violence: Changing the narrative in the Church
Our culture and indeed our church so often misguidedly believe that love can still be present where one group or individual dominates another. The church has not only been silent, but in some of its teachings has actively supported structures of dominance and control.
Indigenous Spirituality and a Grounded Faith
Dr Garry Worete Deverell, a Trawloolway man from northern Tasmania, joins the podcast to explore country and kin as the building blocks of life and spirituality and the web of past, present and future which is expressed as ‘the dreaming’. Paying attention may be the first step in practising a faith that is at home in this land even as we long for the reconciliation which begins in listening to the truth of Australia’s violent colonising history.
Unashamedly Gay. Unashamedly Christian.
Coming out once is challenging, but Jayne Ozanne describes coming out three times: first as gay, then coming out as Christian to her LGBTIQ+ friends, and finally as evangelical to her Christian LGBTIQ+ friends.
Raising the bar on goodness
The Rev’d Suzanne Grimmett reflects marriage, celibacy and how we measure goodness. Jesus has an
Hope, beginnings, possibilities…
General synod opened with these prayers of faith and hope offered by The Rev’d Suzanne