Saint George's Anglican Church Paddington

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Don’t build lives on selfishness and fear

by David on January 2, 2012

In Sydney we watch the impact of the current economic reality in Europe from a comfortable distance. In a Christmas Sermon that ‘raised eyebrows’ in the UK, Dr Rowan Williams, The Archbishop of Canterbury, asks questions that are just as relevant to us in considering the choices we make as individuals, as a community, and as a country.

“Very near the heart of Christian faith and practice is this encounter with God’s questions, ‘who are you, where are you?’ Are you on the side of the life that lives in Jesus, the life of grace and truth, of unstinting generosity and unsparing honesty, the only life that gives life to others? Or are you on your own side, on the side of disconnection, rivalry, the hoarding of gifts, the obsession with control? … What we say or do in our response to Jesus is our way of discovering for ourselves and showing to one another what is real in and for us … the truth is still an uncompromising one: if you cannot or will not respond, you are walking away from reality into a realm of trackless fogbound falsehood.”

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Rev Sue Emeleus – How Inter-Faith Dialogue happens in Sydney

by David on June 5, 2011

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Recently we congratulated Rev Sue Emeleus who graduated D. Min. in Canberra. (Dr Emeleus is shown with Dr Emeleus at Dr Emeleus’ graduation!) Previously Sue spoke of what motivated her commitment to interfaith dialogue. In the following panel contribution at the Asia Pacific Interfaith Forum on Women, Faith and a Culture of Peace Sue describes How Inter-Faith Dialogue happens in the Women’s Inter-Faith Network (WIN) in Sydney.

In August 1999 the Catholic Bishops in Sydney organised an interfaith conference. A Muslim woman looked around the room at the end of the conference and said “Wouldn’t it be good if we met regularly”. A Jewish delegate, Josie Lacey, took up the challenge and requested that regular meetings be held in Polding House where Sr Trish Madigan, another delegate, had her office. The first meeting was held in October 1999. The Movement was officially launched at Parliament House in March 2001, with Dr Rachel Kohn the keynote speaker.

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We mourn the loss of Dr Patricia Brennan

May 30, 2011
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Founding President of MOW (National) Inc. (Movement for the Ordination of Women) Patricia died on Sunday 6th March 2011. Her funeral service was held at St Stephen’s Church Newtown on Friday. A number of St George’s parishioners were present. Patricia was a woman of great energy and breadth of vision. She imagined a different church [...]

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Environmental action

May 15, 2011
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On what is traditionally Good Shepherd Sunday in the church year, bishop of South Sydney Robert Forsyth arrived by e-bike, escorted by Warden Peter Penn, for a service that also dedicated our rainwater project. After the service even the rector tried the e-bike.

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Rev Bill Lawton’s Palm Sunday Address

April 26, 2011

On Palm Sunday members of St George’s Anglican Church Paddington, the Catholic Parishes of St Francis of Assisi Paddington and St Joseph’s Edgecliff, joined with Paddington Uniting Church for an Ecumenical Palm Sunday Service. As a number of people requested, Rev Bill Lawton has kindly allowed us to reporduce the following address he gave. I [...]

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Un-imagi-nation

March 27, 2011

If you went down to the woods today You’d be infor a big surprise Should any woods at all remain. We enlightened humans prefer to pay For entertainment systems and climate-controlled Private dwellings with pristine views Over mirror-images of themselves. The tree of knowledge bears gain and pain. Gone are the woods of our naïve [...]

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