Archive - June, 2010

Feature Clip – I am Robin Hood

11 June 2010 by , No Comments

Another great clip from the robin hood tax peeps in UK.
This weekend at SYG we are making mischief for Robin Hood
facebook event here for those on it or if you are at SYG come to cafepraxis at 10:30pm for mischief making briefing by this hood
Think masks, postcards, raiding parties and a big screen to try [...]

Koornang welcomes Coorong

9 June 2010 by , No Comments

New hospitality house in the south east Suburbs Melbourne is welcoming 10 indigenous friends this weekend. Can you help?
Hannah will be needing more linen (sheets towels etc), plates and pots.
(She could probably do with a beds and side tables etc too)
The house is connected with the Koornang UCA (Murrumbeena) and  Hannah is the host welcoming friends [...]

christchurch sacred space – if nothing else

7 June 2010 by , Comments Off

It takes faith to wait without hope,
to trust that although there is no sense to this
we must do it anyway.
At the limits of our capacity to make sense of the world
at the edges of our grace, energy and love
lie this:
bread and wine.
Take and eat.
If nothing else, it will keep you alive.
the pdf of the [...]

Daring to Join

4 June 2010 by , No Comments

[ June 11, 2010 to June 14, 2010. ] UNITING NETWORK AUSTRALIA invites you…

“Daring to Join”

Explore Your Faith
Enjoy Workshops
Make friends & have fun
Commit to your partner
Worship
Share meals

Melbourne gathering 11 – 14 June 2010
Centre for Theology & Ministry, 1 Morrison Close, Parkville (limited on-site accommodation available)

Bible Study Leader: Rev. Dr Gwen Ince
Special Guest: Rev. Alistair Macrae, President of the Uniting Church in Australia

Special Event: “Sacred [...]

UpperRoom – India Reflections

4 June 2010 by , No Comments

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 [...]

we will not be remembered [ii]

2 June 2010 by , Comments Off

[The same, but very different.]
We will not be remembered.
In all the world’s history,
perhaps 100 billion people have breathed, loved, lived, died
and we could name only
a hundred?
a thousand?

We will not be remembered.

There have been as many people as grains of salt or sand, they say,
and hard as that is to believe
it’s even harder to imagine
that for [...]

World Environment Day

27 May 2010 by , No Comments

[ June 5, 2010; 4:00 pm; ] World Environment Day was established by the United Nations in 1972 to stimulate worldwide awareness of the environment and encourage political attention and action. It is celebrated annually on 5 June.

2010 is the International Year of Biodiversity, and the theme for World Environment Day this year, Many species, one planet, one future, reflects this.

Our buddies over [...]