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December 2017 Journey now available

QLD Synod Webmaster — Tue, 05 Dec 2017 05:42:49 +0000

Our Christmas campaign theme for this year, #thischangeseverything, is obviously a reference to the birth of Christ and its monumental impact on the course of history ever since. Every aspect of our lives—art, the sciences, politics, technology, you name it—has been marked by the influence of Christianity. But the theme is also designed to speak ...

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August 2016 Journey now available

QLD Synod Webmaster — Mon, 01 Aug 2016 00:50:18 +0000

This edition brings profiles of two Christian Queenslanders who offer radically different perspectives on faith: Ken Ham (page 6) and Val Webb (page 10). While Val emphasises the importance of questioning in faith and brings an unmistakable progressivism to Christianity, Ken has an intense certainty in the Old Testament as literal history and is getting ...

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July 2016 Journey now available

QLD Synod Webmaster — Mon, 27 Jun 2016 03:35:49 +0000

The Rogers household has a laugh whenever politicians or government bureaucrats talk about ideologically-neutral educational material in schools. If some are so desperate to remove religion from schools, then shouldn’t they prioritise thinking about how the religion of the “state” is presented to children? The way in which government has omnipotent authority to exempt itself ...

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Our May colouring-in competition winner: Cathy Thorp

QLD Synod Webmaster — Mon, 06 Jun 2016 01:03:21 +0000

Our winning cover came courtesy of Cathy Thorp. We will be using this as the permanent cover for the PDF version and as the thumbnail image on this website.

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May 2016 Journey now available

QLD Synod Webmaster — Tue, 03 May 2016 01:12:31 +0000

Welcome to the May edition of Journey and my first in the editor’s seat. I’d like to acknowledge the fine work of my predecessor, Rohan Salmond who produced a magazine that truly lived up to its core mandates: to inspire, to provoke and to engage. The major question I ask myself as I settle in ...

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April 2016 Journey now available

QLD Synod Webmaster — Wed, 30 Mar 2016 03:51:13 +0000

The award-winning film Spotlight left viewers wondering why the voices of those who were systematically abused by priests in the Boston archdiocese were not heard for so long. This is a reminder that mainstream voices can easily shout down those who do not fit our preconceptions of what is normal and desirable. This edition has ...

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March 2016 Journey now available

QLD Synod Webmaster — Wed, 02 Mar 2016 04:11:27 +0000

While Christmas is the time we celebrate God dwelling among creation, I would argue Easter is the ultimate expression of Emmanuel—God with us. I attended the Let Them Stay protest at Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital in February. That night it wasn’t clear if the immigration department would forcibly remove baby Asha from the hospital, and ...

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February 2016 Journey now available

QLD Synod Webmaster — Wed, 03 Feb 2016 06:41:25 +0000

Lead and share I’ve been fortunate to have grown up in schools and churches that have taken deliberate steps to cultivate and mentor young leaders. It’s been a great help to me over the years. On page four the moderator talks about leadership in a non-hierarchical Uniting Church context. Far from absolving us of the ...

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October 2015 Journey now available

QLD Synod Webmaster — Mon, 28 Sep 2015 05:40:46 +0000

The October edition of Journey magazine is now available to download. The heart of community When I was in Sunday School, it was drilled into me that church is not a building, it is a community. Church can happen anywhere, “wherever two or three are gathered in my name”. It is a body and a family which grows ...

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September Journey now available

QLD Synod Webmaster — Fri, 04 Sep 2015 02:56:50 +0000

Jesus feminism The Uniting Church is unusual in a number of ways—one of them being its wholehearted embrace of women’s ordination. The Uniting Church has ordained women since union, as did its constituent denominations before that. We stick out among Australian churches in this regard; while other denominations ordain women, few Australian churches match the ...

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