Stories

“A bushfire is one thing, a flood is one thing, but a drought is horrific and slowly deteriorates your wellbeing". - Southern Downs Council Mayor, Tracy Dobie.  Last year the NSW drought was making headlines and a lot of support for farmers was raised. The...

Mayfield Church of Christ is passionate about serving their local community. Their mission is to be a visible and relevant example of Jesus in the world. Back in 2015, some of the church members went for a prayer walk around their neighbourhood. One of the...

What is Pastoral Supervision? Why is it needed? “Supervision interrupts practice. It wakes us up to what we are doing. When we are alive to what we are doing, we wake up to what is, instead of falling asleep in the comfort stories of our routines and daily...

Ryan Clift is a community chaplain in Blaxland as well as the Mission Planter at Blaxland Church of Christ. A few months ago, their little church met at Dan’s Coffee Haus in Blaxland, and he asked the question “what would it look like to bring life in our...

It’s become very cold in NSW and the ACT this last month as Winter really sets in. It’s even colder for the thousands of people, especially families, who are currently homeless. The leading cause of homelessness in NSW is domestic violence (24%) forcing...

In so many ways, our nation is being rent and buffeted by divergent world-views and hostile agendas regardless of our political orientations, religious views, race, identity and cultural backgrounds. It’s hard to pinpoint what’s beneath so much turbulence,...

The analytical psychologist Carl Jung first introduced the idea of ‘Synchronicity’ in psychoanalysis as: events that are ‘meaningful coincidences’ that occur without causal relationship but seem to be meaningfully related. Sometimes in life, things seem to...

Dear Friends, Colleagues and Churches, I was recently intrigued by this photo of the ‘Ghost Fungus’ (Omphalotus Nidiformis) – a bioluminescent wonder that pops up in Australia’s temperate forests each autumn. The mushroom’s glow is caused by the same...

Dear Friends, Colleagues and Churches,Some of you will be aware that I enjoy researching lighthouses, visiting and photographing their unique properties and admiring their locations and positional properties. The photo here (which I didn’t take) is of the...

Faith leaders have claimed 2019 as ‘the year of values’, and launched a video highlighting the mental health and multicultural benefits of special religious education (SRE) while revealing massive public support for the program.  Landmark research by one...