morepraxis

I’m curating the opening of the new chapel in Barwon Prison next week. It’s an interfaith chapel and service. These are a couple of moments from the service:
Gathering:
We gather in this place,
people of vastly different beliefs
holding to the faith we have in common:
that there is a story
waiting to be told
of justice
hope
and love.
We gather in this [...]

I am Robin Hood!!
A tiny tax on bankers that would reduce global financial instability and give billions to tackle poverty and climate change, here and abroad.
This tax � levied principally on short term speculative trading � has the power to raise billions every year. It would give a vital boost to health care, our schools [...]

The greenpeace clip for Earth Day
BTW – I understand Earth day is June 5 and that UCA Enviro Justice �Cath will have some some resources ready by May 24.

To be honest, what occurred in the prison was obviously unacceptable, but the person concerned was a serial killer. I think it would be quite unnecessary and a quite inappropriate use of taxpayers’ money to have a royal commission.
- Victoria’s Premier, talking about why we shouldn’t hold a royal commission into the murder of Carl [...]

Dear friends,
On Thursday, a proposal will be unveiled that would?legalize commercial whale hunting for the first time in 24 years.
The fate of the proposal will be determined largely by the world’s immediate reactions to it — and according to insiders,?many governments are planning to stand aside and allow commercial whaling to resume. An outcry is [...]

Endless negotiations seem to have had less impact on whaling than direct action

Any day now, details of the compromise deal being negotiated between the three whaling nations – Japan, Norway and Iceland – and the International Whaling Commission should be released.

Earlier reports suggest the three countries are willing to cut their annual harvest for the [...]

Anyone else feel like indefinite detention is making and election comeback?
Here is Al’s official UCA response.
Media Release pdf
9 April 2010
Uniting Church condemns suspension of Afghan, Sri Lankan visas
President of the Uniting Church in Australia, Rev. Alistair Macrae has condemned the announcement today by
Foreign Minister Stephen Smith and Immigration Minister Chris Evans that Australia has [...]

[ April 5, 2010; 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] 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 [...]