This statement is developed from an e-mail sent to the Prime Minister earlier this month.
A STATEMENT ON ASYLUM SEEKERS
TO THE PRIME MINISTER AND THE AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT
Wes Campbell, November 2009
I offer these reflections as a way of gaining some clarity about our response to asylum seekers in the light of the Prime minister’s espoused source of [...]
THE PREAMBLE
November 2009
The Uniting Church in Australia is now addressing the question of a new ‘Preamble’ to its Constitution.
This comes after discussion with the UAICC (Uniting Aboriginal and Islander Christian Congress), and discussion at the 2009 Assembly in July 2009.
http://assembly.uca.org.au/images/storie…
The Preamble replaces an original paragraph with several paragraphs which give a brief account of [...]
Sermon 8th November 2009 Pentecost 23
Ruth 1: 1-18; Psalm 146;
Hebrews 9: 11-14; Mark 12:38-44
Brunswick UCA
by Wes Campbell
A quote from the Age of Thursday last (5th November):
‘Forty years after Australian women won the right to equal pay, the Rudd government will back a major test case seeking hefty pay rises for 200,000 mostly female workers [...]
A sermon preached on All Saints Day at Church of All Nations, Carlton, Sunday 1st November 2009
Wes Campbell
Isaiah 25: 6-9; Psalm 24; Revelation 21; 1-6a; John 11: 32-44
Halloween Pumpkins have been on sale in the supermarket. In our street we were encouraged to join in trick or treat.
Are you turned off by the American [...]
Psalm 98
Gospel according to Mark 9: 30-37
Meditation
Let us acknowledge with thanks that we are on land cared for by the Elders of the Wurundjeri people for many millennia, and so commit ourselves to the task of reconciliation.
Today, here and now, we are sharing in a Valedictory service. The word valedictory means a farewell [...]
THURSDAY FORUM: God after the death of God
brief but serious Christian thinking -
WHEN: Thursday lunchtime, 1.05– 2.00pm,
22nd October 2009-
WHERE: MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY, Alice Hoy Building (Education), room 330 (off Monash Rd)
The sessions are short but interactive. Hosted by Wes Campbell, chaplain.
In the past century there have been numerous claims that God is dead [...]
On Saturday 8th October 2009 a rally was held in the City Square (Melbourne) to commemorate the Eighth anniversary of the invasion of Afghanistan, with a call to withdraw Australian troops. Several speakers directed us to the anti war movement in the United States, the mismatch between the original reasons given for invading Afghanistan and [...]
THREE COMING EVENTS /OPPORTUNITIES:
‘Where to for Afghanistan? Prospects for a Just Peace’: a public forum on Sunday 18th October, 2.00-5.30pm, at the Centre for Theology and Ministry, Morrison Close (between Ormond and St Hilda’s Colleges. Keynote speakers: Prof. Amin Saikal, ANU; MS Fazia Tasmin Hajeb, radio presenter; Prof. Joseph Camilleri, Latrobe university. Organised by Pax [...]
THE NOTION OF ‘RADICAL CHURCH’ takes the world seriously – that is, we are to take the world seriously as the place where God is active. That includes meeting together as a community where we learn to care for each other, and prompting each other to be aware of what is happening in the wider [...]
The Acts of the Apostles study 12th October 2009
Having risen from my sick bed late last week there was a Bible study at lunchtime today!! And we meet again next week.
By way of recalling what we have done, I made some general observations:
• The early Christian movement was Jewish – the split came in the AD70s. [...]
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