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New and interesting articles, videos, photographs and other content are posted online every day. Here are five recent items that may interest the Uniting Church SA community.
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UAICC – Uniting Aboriginal and Islander Christian Congress
This is a great week to check out the Uniting Aboriginal and Islander Christian Congress (UAICC) Facebook page. The UAICC National Conference started in Geelong a few days ago and the Facebook page has been updated with daily summaries and photos. It’s worth checking out!
Disability and the body of Christ
Insights
Dr Louise Gosbell explores the challenges experienced by people with disability within church settings and communities. She draws on her own experiences seeing a family member excluded from church, and her 17 years of experience of writing and thinking about this topic. It’s a thought-provoking, insightful piece.
Intergenerational Lent resource
Engage Together
Easter is early this year so it’s time to start thinking about planning for Lent! Engage Together are intergenerational resources that cover different seasons in the life of the church and are founded in the Revised Common Lectionary. They’re prepare din partnership across three Uniting Church Synods, including the SA Intergen team.
This particular edition, which covers the season of Lent, includes a range of suggestions to encourage greater participation by people of all ages and to help foster intentional intergenerational connections. It features six worship service outlines, additional music resources, interactive Lent activities and take-home ideas, and links to other resources for Lent and Easter.
ABC Radio National
A panel show led by James Carleton, God Forbid began in 2017 and explores religion and belief in personal life and public life. It explores the role of different religions in modern Australia and includes guests with a wide variety of backgrounds.
What Oprah 2020 tells us about the power of the spoken word
Mike Frost
In this blog entry, Mike Frost looks at how powerful speeches often share characteristics with sermons. He particularly explores at how these speeches use story-telling to inspire hope, referring particularly to Oprah’s 2018 Golden Globes speech, as well as talks from former leaders like Barack Obama and Winston Churchill. Mike believes there are things that preachers can learn from speeches such as these that resonate with people so deeply.
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The new 'normal’ that we have entered into can certainly bring changes to how we as a church undertake international mission. However, despite this challenge we encourage reflection on the importance of partnerships, solidarity for social justice issues and ecumenical sharing.
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A UnitingCare Emergency Relief Centre was needed in the Port Adelaide-Enfield area of Adelaide. And that's when Lefevre UC and volunteers from Port Adelaide UC stepped up.
A couple of years ago I was participating in a course which had a smattering of people from a Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) background. I would have said that they were good participants in class discussions but not the most active ones, and I gave little thought to it.
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