Opinion

Most young Queenslanders have what is known as a “Schoolies” adventure in the weeks immediately following the completion of Year 12 at high school. This month Journey asked three young women who had very different Schoolies experiences how their Christian faith connected with that event. Anna Mulcahy Anna spent Schoolies at the Gold Coast with friends. Having been brought up ...

Most young Queenslanders have what is known as a “Schoolies” adventure in the weeks immediately following the completion of Year 12 at high school. This month Journey asked three young women who had very different Schoolies experiences how their Christian faith connected with that event. Josie Nottle Josie went to a Scripture Union (SU) Schoolies camp on the Sunshine Coast. ...

Most young Queenslanders have what is known as a “Schoolies” adventure in the weeks immediately following the completion of Year 12 at high school. This month Journey asked three young women who had very different Schoolies experiences how their Christian faith connected with that event.Jill Prideaux Jill went on the first Uniting Church Queensland Synod Fiji Schoolies trip. On the ...

INDICATIONS ARE that Australians will go to the polls sometime fairly soon to elect a new Federal Government. This is a very serious matter that requires our careful thought and attention, not least because political parties, in the lead up to voting day, often roll out a host of policies and make all kinds of promises that pander to our ...

Colin GurteenI CAME away wondering not about the speaker but about his audience. My first impressions of the evening were based upon the gathering crowd. Anyone expecting a motley collection of ratbag heretics and weirdo new-agists would have been sorely disappointed. Those filing in to fill the auditorium were strangely, almost disappointingly, conventional: middle aged, middle class, white. Of course ...

John Shelby Spong, the controversial Episcopal bishop, has always regarded himself as an iconoclast. Throughout his long career, he has vigorously attacked Christian doctrine, and has called for “a new reformation.” The main themes of his prolific writings have now been brought together in his new manifesto, Jesus for the Non-Religious – a book which Spong himself describes as the ...

After a veritable deluge of letters about ads for a conference and public lecture featuring Bishop John Shelby Spong appearing in Journey, we asked the Principal of Trinity Theological College Rev Dr David Rankin to tell us where people like Dr Spong have featured in church history. IN MY VIEW, a significant number of the theological positions espoused by Dr ...

Journey asked Trinity College Director of Studies in Systematic Theology Rev Dr Geoff Thompson whether there is a place in the Uniting Church in Australia for the theology articulated by John Shelby Spong and championed by self-styled progressive Christians. FOR MANY people, the Uniting Church is a natural home for this kind of theology. Why is this so? After all, ...

A peaceful stretch of the Bruce Highway just to the north of Yandina was shattered on the evening of 7 December 1978 when eight people lost their lives in a tragic multi-vehicle accident. June Ehrenberg is a mother who’s life was changed forever as a result of the accident. Our daughter Annette was going to see the film Jesus of ...

In a split second, my life changed. I went from being an able bodied person to one who from that point would be labelled “disabled”, my appearance was changed and my ability to work ever again, to care for my kids and even my ability to care for myself was in question. For the next four years I was in ...