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Stories from the popular 'Around Melbourne' section of The Melbourne Anglican.
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Patriarchy a barrier for Asian church womenAn Asian woman church leader says Christian women in that continent still face a “stained-glass ceiling” due to the patriarchal nature of many Asian cultures, as well as the churches. Church-backed website on Rwandan genocide wins UN awardA website inspired by a Cranbourne parishioner, who worked in reconciliation and peace-building after the 1994 Rwandan genocide, and supported by the Melbourne Anglican Foundation has won a United Nations Media Peace Award. Wrestling with angels and demonsIt was the meeting of the former atheist who became a Christian, the former Roman Catholic who became a psychic and the man born a Jew who went to an Anglican school and became an atheist. Bishop rebukes PM over broken pledgeIt is a serious moral problem to make a promise and then wilfully break it, as Prime Minister Julia Gillard has done, Bishop Philip Huggins said last month.
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Prosperity for all AustraliansAustralia’s economy needs to be based on a vision of shared prosperity which tackles entrenched disadvantage, said Jennifer Westacott, the new Chief Executive of the Business Council of Australia.
Advocate for poor backs UN goals amid crisesThe financial crises and natural disasters that have afflicted the world in recent years might be expected to sour the dreams of anyone trying to raise the living standards of the world’s most needy people. But not the Revd Joel Edwards. Former convict MP a powerful witnessWith the words ‘18 months imprisonment, take him down’, ringing in his ears, so began the new life of Jonathan Aitken, the only British cabinet minister ever to be sent to prison. Homelessness often a cause of illness, addictionHomelessness is often a cause of poor physical and mental health and substance abuse, rather than a consequence of them, an event co-sponsored by a Victorian Anglican agency was told on 6 October. Farewell to Rachel, the Cathedral's 'First Singer'Rachel McDougall has returned to parish ministry after four years as Precentor of St Paul’s Cathedral. She spoke to Beryl Rule about the health obstacles she had to overcome, and the joys
and challenges of being Precentor. Tea with Jane AustenOver 80 parishioners of St Paul’s, Frankston and their friends enjoyed “Tea with Jane Austen” on 22 August. Back to Church SundayAlmost 100 parishes around the Diocese took part in Back To Church Sunday on 12 September. Sydney's 'harsh sectarianism' a threat to churchThe Sydney Diocese “has changed in the past half-century from being an authentic and valued expression of low-church Evangelical reformed Anglicanism to a polity that is really only Anglican in name,” Dr Muriel Porter said last month.
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