Reflection of the Week - 12 August 2025
To get a real grasp of the gospel’s truth, we have to cross over and enter into solidarity with at least one person who’s different from us
New Times - Faith
Reflection of the Week - 5 August 2025
If we are going to talk about light, then we must also talk about darkness, because they only have meaning in relation to one another. In much of the world’s art, the sun and the moon are pictured together as sacred symbols. The solar light gives glaring brightness but paradoxically creates defined shadows.
Reflection of the Week - 29 July 2025
If we are going to talk about light, then we must also talk about darkness, because they only have meaning in relation to one another. In much of the world’s art, the sun and the moon are pictured together as sacred symbols. The solar light gives glaring brightness but paradoxically creates defined shadows.
Reflection of the Week - 22 July 2025
If we are going to talk about light, then we must also talk about darkness, because they only have meaning in relation to one another. In much of the world’s art, the sun and the moon are pictured together as sacred symbols. The solar light gives glaring brightness but paradoxically creates defined shadows.
Meet Anna Wilson – Disability & Advocacy Officer
My name is Anna Wilson, and I’m really excited to introduce myself as the new Graduate Disability and Advocacy Officer in the Synod of South Australia, with the Placements and Safe Church Team. I’ve just commenced this role, working part-time on Mondays and Wednesdays, and I’m already feeling excited by the possibilities of what we can achieve together.
Reflection of the Week - 15 July 2025
It is very important, friends, not to think of the soul as dark. We are conditioned to perceive only external light. We forget that there is such a thing as inner light, illuminating our soul.
Reflection of the Week - 08 July 2025
Paul tries to create some “audiovisual aids” for this big message, which he calls “churches” (a term Jesus used only twice, found in Matthew 16:18 and 18:17). Paul knows we need living, visible models of this new kind of life to make evident that Christ’s people really follow a way different from mass consciousness.
Reflection of the Week - 01 July 2025
Paul tries to create some “audiovisual aids” for this big message, which he calls “churches” (a term Jesus used only twice, found in Matthew 16:18 and 18:17). Paul knows we need living, visible models of this new kind of life to make evident that Christ’s people really follow a way different from mass consciousness.
UC eNews – 17 June 2025
Reflection of the Week - 17 June 2025
The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against such things.
Reflection of the Week - 10 June 2025
It’s unfortunate that we lost the bread and fish ritual meal, because the bread and wine ritual meal didn’t emphasize this idea of surplus: real food that actually fed the poor.
Reflection of the Week - 3 June 2025
No matter the religion or denomination in which we are raised, our spirituality still comes through the first filter of our own life experience. We must begin to be honest about this instead of pretending that any of us are formed exclusively by scriptures or our churches or religious traditions. There is no such thing as an entirely unbiased position. The best we can do is own and be honest about our own filters. God allows and invites us to trust our own experience.
Reflection of the Week - 27 May 2025
No matter the religion or denomination in which we are raised, our spirituality still comes through the first filter of our own life experience. We must begin to be honest about this instead of pretending that any of us are formed exclusively by scriptures or our churches or religious traditions. There is no such thing as an entirely unbiased position. The best we can do is own and be honest about our own filters. God allows and invites us to trust our own experience.
 Board Member Rev Dr Graham Vawser, Board President Mark Porter, Rev Tim Hein, CEO Darren Birbeck.JPG)
Resthaven celebrates 90th anniversary with ‘Service of Thanksgiving’
In celebration of Resthaven’s 90th anniversary, and coinciding with South Australia’s History Festival (1-31 May), Resthaven has today, 7 May 2025, launched its new ‘living history’ website: Resthaven: A History of Caring.
Reflection of the Week - 20 May 2025
No matter the religion or denomination in which we are raised, our spirituality still comes through the first filter of our own life experience. We must begin to be honest about this instead of pretending that any of us are formed exclusively by scriptures or our churches or religious traditions. There is no such thing as an entirely unbiased position. The best we can do is own and be honest about our own filters. God allows and invites us to trust our own experience.
Resthaven launches ‘living history’ website documenting 90+ years
In celebration of Resthaven’s 90th anniversary, and coinciding with South Australia’s History Festival (1-31 May), Resthaven has today, 7 May 2025, launched its new ‘living history’ website: Resthaven: A History of Caring.
Reflection of the Week - 13 May 2025
I am just like you. My immediate response to most situations is with reactions of attachment, defensiveness, judgment, control, and analysis. I am better at calculating than contemplating. Let’s admit that most of us start there. The false self seems to have the “first gaze” at almost everything.
Reflection of the Week - 6 May 2025
Inaction sometimes is the greatest action we can take. Stillness is sometimes the most important move we can make.
Reflection of the Week - 29 April 2025
Are we working with the poor or choosing to be in solidarity with them? Are we squandering our time or seizing time as a constant opportunity to discover more about ourselves, our neighbours, and our God?
Reflection of the Week - 22 April 2025
When you touch the hand of a returning friend, you already know that he will have to leave you again. When you are moved by the quiet vastness of a sun-colored ocean, you miss the friend who cannot see the same.