The Lord’s Prayer: time to reflect – By Margaret Cayzer with Marg van Maanen and Helen Rowlands Such familiar words, and yet have you had time recently to think deeply, to ponder their meaning and to wonder about how to respond to...
A Story of Life and Faith by Di Reilly A story of life and faith: Coreopsis – ‘always cheerful’ It was my humble honour to chat with one of our long-term parishioners...
Origin Story by Stephen Harrison Have you ever pondered why origin stories are so important to people? Anglicare has a few special origin stories. In 1870 a small group of...
Woe to Who? by Stewart Perry The gospel reading for last Wednesday’s Holy Communion service was that bit where Jesus says “Woe to you scribes, Pharisees,...
We are all made of stories by Mary-Anne Rulfs We are all made of stories. This is to be human. Each in our own way, are storytellers, story interpreters and meaning-makers, and our...
Commentary is Deep Care by Stewart Perry I do love the Olympics. When it rolls around every 4 years I suddenly become excited about sports and athletes that I wouldn’t normally...
What miracles look like by Stewart Perry Last week across the 3 parishes of Burleigh Heads, Gold Coast South (Palm Beach), and Robina/Mermaid Beach we started talking about “Deep...
Deep Care by Stewart Perry There’s been recent criticism of the expression “thoughts and prayers” because it seems to have become a comment with little impact...
The gentle art of being the church by Mary-Anne Rulfs To be Christian is to belong to the body of Christ. I love this metaphor which we’ve inherited from the letters of St Paul to various...