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Re-Thinking the Christ Movements of the First Two Centuries

St Michael's Uniting Church 120 Collins Street, Melbourne, Australia

The Friday night lecture anticipates and introduces the amazing diversity, social innovation, and humour-filled challenge to Roman imperialism that the four Saturday lectures will deepen. This is a stunning challenge to the conventional picture of the so-called “early churches.” The dynamic beginnings of the early Jesus communities are legendary but sometimes forgotten or contested. There...

$10 – $55

Professor Hal Taussig – Saturday Lectures

Saturday Lectures: 1.The Messy Mix of Early Christ Movement Texts: Both conventional Christianity and secular culture assume that the New Testament fell fully-formed to earth and hit someone on the head shortly after Jesus died.  This lecture shows how no such thing as a Christian canon could have happened before the fifth century CE. Replacing...

$10 – $55

Creative Faith Discussion Group

Waratah Room 120 Collins St, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Emerging Conversations Series Topic: Religion in 2018 and the ‘Emergent’ Church   Towards the end of the twentieth century there was the idea that as culture changes a new church should emerge in response.   The emerging church was a postmodern approach to Christianity.  How does the emergent church in 2018 respond to postmodern thought?  “Postmodern...

Rev. Terence Corkin Consultation, Living into the Future – Conflict Transformation Weekend

St Michael's Uniting Church 120 Collins Street, Melbourne, Australia

Living into the Future - Conflict Transformation Weekend • Learning about Conflict o The “7 Levels of Conflict” o Understanding your own Conflict Style o Identifying future issues for the Congregation • Collaborative and constructive ways of communicating o Exploring clear communication strategies o Values and Practices for collaborative decision making The Consultant for the...

Staying Alive

St Michael's Uniting Church 120 Collins Street, Melbourne, Australia

Thank you for your feedback from last week’s session: “A note of appreciation for an enjoyable and uplifting session.” “I love the humour and your charged, vivacious, bright energy...”  “... it fuels my determination to do all that I can to be well and inspires me to Stay Alive.” Despite our physical decline with age...

Staying Alive

St Michael's Uniting Church 120 Collins Street, Melbourne, Australia

Next session: Sunday 12th August 12pm – 1pm (Waratah Room) Discover how our new knowledge, insights and imagination can help us create new ways of living. For sale on the day: Patricia Edgar’s  "In Praise of Ageing” ($20).  “Patricia Edgar brilliantly portrays the challenges and, more importantly, the manifold joys of growing older. This book...

Brave New World Seminars with Professor Joseph Camilleri OAM. 11,18 & 25 September

St Michael's Uniting Church 120 Collins Street, Melbourne, Australia

A series of captivating and thought provoking seminars Professor Joseph Camilleri OAM returns to St Michael’s to deliver three exciting lectures offering a new perspective on how we are travelling in the 21st Century. The presentations will combine interviews with guests and conversation across the generations to help us probe the present and re-imagine the future. There is...

Brave New World Seminars With Professor Joseph Camilleri OAM. Part 2: Is Social Trust in Decline?

St Michael's Uniting Church 120 Collins Street, Melbourne, Australia

Part 2 in a series of captivating and thought provoking seminars Is Social Trust in Decline? – What does this mean for Politics, Business, Banking, the Media, Religion? In Australia as elsewhere, many to think that our institutions — public and private — are not acting in the public interest. News organizations are themselves less trusted by...

Brave New World Seminars with Professor Joseph Camilleri OAM. Part 3: Redeeming Truth and Trust in Public Life

St Michael's Uniting Church 120 Collins Street, Melbourne, Australia

Part 3 in a series of captivating and thought provoking seminars Redeeming Truth and Trust in Public Life: What will it take? This session asks whether – and how – we can summon the energy, resources and collective vision to reset the agenda and the conversation. How do we place truth and trust at the centre...

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