morepraxis

Dear friends
Please drop everything and do two things that could raise $60,000 for asylum seekers in need of our help, and will certainly raise awareness of the harsh conditions they face every day!
1. Go to http://www1.canon.com.au/creativeforacause/Photo/Gallery.aspx?photo=4A4BCAC8E98D7278 and vote for the photo shown there. It is a? photo from the exhibition “Made in Australia: Stranded between [...]

I went back to Port Philip Prison last night to see the men in the Marlborough Unit. Ross, the chaplain, and I decided that we’d like to do some midwinter services, so last night we were planning to write some prayers and psalms with the men, which i’d then take away and use to design [...]

Most conversations about new forms of church or christian community are about rethinking the table at which the disciples sit. True confession: this project doesn’t emerge from any interest in that table, or even really in the disciples. i think the really interesting stuff of the gospels is the other stories – the tables Jesus [...]

Saturday night turned out to be the longest night for quite unexpected reasons, but the solstice space itself was really lovely…

[We projected onto the ground, at the entry, images of the solar system in real time, with the earth at the centre, showing the darkness moving over australia - this photo was taken on my [...]

What do people think of this song by Regina Spektor?
Here are the lyrics for those wordy types.
No one laughs at God in a hospital
No one laughs at God in a war
No one?s laughing at God
When they?re starving or freezing or so very poor
No one laughs at God
When the doctor calls after some routine tests
No one?s [...]

Christmas Island is no place to detain children
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This morning, dozens of children – under the watchful eye of the Australian Government – were escorted to school by guards. This evening the children will return to a fenced facility on a remote island and do their homework in demountable buildings, while they ponder their plight. Sound [...]

open from 8 until midnight tomorrow night, in the basement at 130 Lt Collins Street

And what is the darkness for you?
a refuge?
an escape?
a solace?
where you can no longer tell
where you end and everything else begins?
where you can no longer see the horizon?
The dawn will come
but there will be another night…
And how is the darkness for [...]

Hey peeps here is a thought provoking article by?Bob Lupton?about OS mission trips, work parties and the like. Have read reflect and tell me what you think. (I have put the whole article up as the url points to all FCS articles)
?They?re turning my people into beggars!? It was a painful accusation for Juan Ulloa [...]