Archive - March, 2010

Easter Activists are Arrested

31 March 2010 by , 1 Comment

[ March 31, 2010; 6:00 am; ] Updates etc can be found here ?http://paceebene.org/blog/jarrod-mckenna/breaking-news-bonhoeffer-activists-secret-military-base-now and?from the activists as it happens:?http://twitter.com/jarrodmckenna

BREAKING NEWS: Bonhoeffer activists in Secret Military base NOW!!!
Rev. Simon Moyle (Baptist Minister), Jacob Bolton (Community Worker), Jessica Morrison (University Lecturer) and Simon Reeves (Social Worker) have called themselves the Bonhoeffer Peace Collective after Kevin Rudd?s favourite theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who was also [...]

Easter Feature – Just about to break

30 March 2010 by , 5 Comments

‘Heavensent To Spill My Stuff’
This song has been spinning in my head this Palm Sunday and the lead up to Easter. There is something about the Bible going into real time this week, that plays with my spirit.?So not being an expert of Paul Kelly (just a fan really) I am overlaying my framework of [...]

The Prodigal Part Deux The Brother Bites Back

21 March 2010 by , No Comments

Daz put this up and is worth a repost in my book ?(Again insight into my brain with the choice of image alongside someone else’s thinking)-?Age
The Prodigal Part Deux ? The Brother Bites Back
Last week?s lectionary reading was the story of the ?Prodigal Son? or of the ?Ungrateful Senior Son? or ?The Father [...]

Congress (UAICC) Press Release

16 March 2010 by , No Comments

?TUCKEY AND ABBOTT STUCK IN THE DARK AGES’
The Indigenous arm of the Uniting Church in Australia has today labeled the comments made by Tony Abbott and Wilson Tuckey concerning acknowledgement of Indigenous traditional owners of land as nothing more than an opposition desperate to maintain its relevancy.
National UAICC Administrator Rev Shayne Blackman and UAICC Chairperson [...]

EurekaStreet – Atheists

12 March 2010 by , No Comments

Hi guys, yesterday I found myself pondering the bus ads for the atheist convention here in Melbourne “celebrate reason!” they say and heaps of radio interviews about why they are right and smart. ?I don’t know if it was their intention to mimic the violent “we have the truth and want to impose it on [...]

Palm Sunday Peace March 2010

4 March 2010 by , 2 Comments

[ March 28, 2010; 1:15 pm to 3:30 pm. ] Build not Bomb

Church Service -?1.15pm church service at Wesley Uniting Church, Lonsdale St
Peace March – 2.00pm @ State Library for silent march through city
Endorsed by: The Campaign for International Co-operation and Disarmament; Medical Association for Prevention of War; Japanese for Peace; Pax Christi; Maritime Union of Australia; Socialist Alliance, Socialist Alternative; Solidarity; Stand Fast

palm-sunday-poster (poster [...]

justact action – Help UCCP workers

4 March 2010 by , No Comments

Get online and help Dr Alexis Montes, a lay leader in the health ministry of the United Church of Christ in the Philippines (UCCP) and his health Worker colleagues.
There have been illegal arrests, disappearances and detentions.

This is an awfull situation involving people being put in danger. There has been?llegal arrest and detention of 43 health [...]

Surrender 2010

2 March 2010 by , No Comments

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Have you registered for surrender conference yet? Well get onto it. Good speakers and workshops are the norm, including this year has Dave Andrews “plan be” stuff ?and workshops run by the usual suspects?of the radical discipleship, social justice and peace ?mobs. ?Oh and tear are running slum survivor plus the youth night is [...]