I was born in 1960 into a family of four girls. I think the first feminist in our family was my father. He had watched his mother struggle to provide for her sons when widowed in the late 1930s. He knew first hand that if women got equal pay for equal work then the “widows and the fatherless” would not ...
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Journey asks Peter Armstrong … What does the resurrection mean to you?
When God raised Jesus from the dead, he made a statement to the world – in the end, the God who started it all gets the last word. And that word is life – Jesus is alive. We celebrate Jesus’ resurrection for one simple reason: the sin that could destroy us does not carry the day. Jesus forgives us of ...
Read More »Journey asks Jenni Farquhar… What does the resurrection mean to you?
I use the word journey because resurrection is what I experience after walking through Lent and the passion and the waiting. It is a journey of strength because like Christ there are times in my life when I have to walk to the cross. It is a journey of vulnerability because like Christ there are times when I am stripped ...
Read More »Journey asks Rob Brennan… What does the resurrection mean to you?
What does the resurrection mean to me? In a word it means hope. I don’t mean hope as in “I hope it will be fine (whoops rain) tomorrow”. “I hope it will be nice” has for me as much clout as a piece of soggy asparagus. If the resurrection promise is to be trusted it has to affect more than ...
Read More »From the editor – April 2007
I guess it will be on television here soon. The documentary The Lost Tomb of Jesus produced by Hollywood film maker James Cameron claims a 2000-year-old tomb found in Jerusalem may hold the remains of Jesus of Nazareth, Mary his mother, Mary Magdalene, said to be his partner, and Judah, said to be their son, together with other members of ...
Read More »Living the resurrection
THE GOSPEL records tell us that the encounters the disciples had with the risen Jesus were life-changing experiences. John, in his Gospel record, describes how the fear that gripped the disciples was transformed into joy, and how the doubt that engulfed Thomas was converted into faith, as Jesus appeared amongst his followers and restored their hope and confidence. Then, as ...
Read More »From the Editor – March 2007
Sometimes it can be the most uncomfortable time of the service, especially if you are sitting in the front row and that big open bowl comes past for your offering. If you’re first, whatever you put in, the next person along is going to know how much it was. Maybe that’s why people like envelopes – at least that way ...
Read More »Dealing with the demons within
All of our most important struggles are spiritual, and the arena in which those battles are fought lies within us. This is most certainly true in regard to the management of our financial resources. The problems we have as Christians in relation to money (apart from feeling that we never have enough of it) are essentially spiritual problems. In the final ...
Read More »Taking a greener Journey
When I was in High School, we were required to study Confronting the Future, a book by scientist and theologian Charles Birch about the way the use of resources might impact on the world in which we live. The basic premise was that environmental impact equals population, times the amount of resources used per person. I remember it well because ...
Read More »How’s the weather where you are?
Over the past week or so I’ve been reading the autobiography of renowned environmentalist, David Suzuki. It’s an enthralling book for a number of reasons, and it reveals a man with a deep love for the natural world and a passionate commitment to preserve it for future generations. His book confirms what we already know. In many parts of the ...
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