Over the years, the Basis of Union has introduced the Uniting Church to a language of faith that is Christocentric and optimistic, and yet flavoured with humility and grace. And with this new language system, The Basis of Union has also given us a...
“My hope is built on nothing less than Jesus' blood and righteousness” a hymn believed to be written in 1834 by Edward Mote, a Baptist minister. Lovely sentiment, but is it this really how most of us would define our hope?
The ultimate example for the prioritizing of the personal over the political in the David-Jonathan material is Jonathan, who chooses love over power. The text goes on to suggest that such an ordering of priorities can save lives, bestow dignity...
The privileging of a political or theological-political reading of Jonathan’s love over and against a personal and potentially erotic and/or sexual reading arguably has less to do with the text itself and more to do with the imposition of...
Such reflections ought to unsettle the assumption that biblical views on sexual practice (which are, in any case, multiple and contradictory) are identical to views espoused by modern religious readers, and they ought to raise serious questions...
We would like to extend a very warm welcome to David Kerr, our new Curator of ‘The Gallery’! David is a deacon in the Anglican Church and a practicing artist himself who views painting and art as a form of prayer and worship – a...
“Often, stitching is a private and intimate practice which helps to address the reality of life or the monotony of a separate, distance existence. In some cases, stitch is used to confront the chaos of the outside world…” It is almost Summer in...
For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. (1 Corinthians 13:12). 1 Corinthians 13 is a common reading in the ministry of ceremonies; that is, at weddings and...
Sue Yule has been building her artistic career with Art From The Margins (AFTM) since 2017 and in 2018 was recognised with an Emerging Artist Award as part of the AFTM Outsider Art Awards. In 2019 Sue was invited to participate in an 8-month...
Having lived a life of intimate involvement and vital necessity - a life of women’s work - she stands as a monument which cries out in distress to heaven. For, as Gunn writes, “salt is [also] tears, anguish for the women and children of Sodom.”
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