morepraxis

The upper room project meets the first Monday of each month (6:-8:30pm) to engage with spirituality and justice as struggled with and fought for by the Prophets and Jesus. We meet upstairs in the Shine Caf?/Bar (74 Kingsway Glen Waverley) with gallery space, discussion corners, opportunity for practical response and pondering space.
We hope the upper [...]

CPTnet – 14 September 2006 – by Jan Benvie
I think words are important. Maybe it’s because of my background as a teacher. Or maybe it’s because for the past year and a half I have been working with children who experience communication difficulties, children who can’t find the words to express themselves.
The words and [...]

Dear Friends,
Two new submissions prepared by UnitingJustice are now available to be viewed from the front page of our website, at http://nat.uca.org.au/unitingjustice. These are:
- UnitingJustice’s submission to the Labor Party’s Caucus Social Policy Review of its Immigration Policy;and
- UnitingJustice’s submission to the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission’s Same Sex: Same [...]

The AGE newspaper reports that the Exclusive Brethren (a small Christian denomination) appears to have won special dispensation from the Commonwealth Government to exclude union officials from its members’ businesses without consulting their staff.
In contrast to the allegations in The AGE report, current Uniting Church in Australia (Victoria & Tasmania) policy states that the church [...]

International Day of Peace – Walk for Peace
Thursday 21 September, 1pm:
@ State Library of Victoria, corner Swanston and Latrobe Sts.
We will have our 110-metre rainbow peace flag, which is the world’s largest. We will also have 50 large peace cranes for walkers to carry. The walk will conclude at Alexandra Gardens and is a celebration [...]

The G20 gathering of trade ministers and advisors from wealthy and emerging nations will be in Melbourne this November 18-20. According to www.stopg20.org Commonwealth Treasurer Peter Costello describes the G20 gathering as the ?premiere forum for discussion of global economic issues?. The Alternative Futures Quilt Project has invited faith and broader community groups to contribute [...]

It be Talk like a pirate day today!!!! 19th Sept.
Talk ye talk at ye work, onboard and off. arhhhh
To prepare yeself, this here reel be most informative!
So, me salty sea dogs? what say ye?
Have at a ye… bubble

If the worlds population was reduced to 100, this is what it would look like.
http://www.miniature-earth.com