None of us are going to save this planet alone. But we can shift patterns of destruction in our own ecosystem. If we learn the place and fall madly in love, how could we not interfere in the destruction and make change?
Resilience is really a secular word for what religion was trying to say with the word faith. Even Jesus emphasised faith more than love. Without a certain ability to let go, to trust, to allow, we won’t get to any new place.
We may have only a few talents, but we have many gifts. Our gifts are the many ways in which we express our humanity.
Jesus said that there is no greater love than for a person to lay down their life for their friends, and then Jesus showed us that love by giving up his life on the cross for us, his friends. It’s Jesus’ love that teaches us what real love looks like.
A wise mentor leads someone to their own centre and to the Centre, but by circuitous paths, using their two steps backward to lead them three steps forward. It may look unproductive, but it is really the wisdom path of God.
A special Thanksgiving Service was held on Sunday 4th August to celebrate 150 years since the Moonta Wesleyan Methodist (now Uniting) Church was officially opened on 2nd and 3rd August 1874.
The soul is that part of us that has never doubted and that has always said yes to God. It’s in everyone. Even in those moments when we are filled with negativity, there’s a little yes that holds on.
Mount Barker Uniting Church has had a number of rough sleepers using their car park every night of the week to erect their basic tents or sleep in their cars.
Residents at Resthaven Port Elliot are putting their artistic talent on show this month as part of the South Australian Living Artists (SALA) Festival.
Surviving with Jesus gives us hope that a different kind of world is possible—a world without sexual abuse, without misogyny and racism, and without violence.
Jesus prays for unity among his disciples and among those who through the teaching of his disciples will come to believe in him. He says: 'May they all be one, just as, Father, you are in me and I in you ...' (John 17:21).
I pray that we will not be swept away by our own curiosity, sensationalism, and panic, but remain attentive to him who comes and will say: ‘Come, you whom my Father has blessed, take for your heritage the kingdom prepared for you since the foundation of the world’ (Matthew 25:34–35).
What a gift the Lord has bestowed upon his disciples. Filled with and emboldened by the Holy Spirit, they are set to go out across the land and touch the lives of those who sorely need love and care.
When Jesus is admonished in the synagogue, it is not by a close-minded community weary of an outsider’s teachings. It is by the ones who knew him as a boy: a young carpenter raised by Mary and Joseph in a tight-knit Nazarene community.
During the 2023 round of Uniting Foundation grant allocations, the committee was pleased to support the work of Mitcham Village Uniting Church with their community garden extension.
Silence precedes, undergirds, and grounds everything. We cannot just think of it as an accident, or as something unnecessary. Unless we learn how to live there, go there, abide in this different phenomenon, the rest of things—words, events, relationships, identities—become rather superficial, without depth or context.
In what small, actionable way might we seek calm and rest in Jesus during the current storms in our lives?
Seeds are planted in us at our baptism, confirmation, and every time we receive the Eucharist. Like seeds, our faith needs time to come to fruition.
Ordinarily when someone says the phrase ‘I’m Not Racist but …’ it is followed by a remark that highlights the ‘other.’
Jesus was dogged by family and religious leaders who questioned his teaching, his healing, and his love for us all. At the heart of Mark’s writing, Jesus, through his stories, teaches us of his power over Satan and the paramount importance of the Holy Spirit.