6.30pm, Tuesday 5 and 12 September Back by popular demand, Professor Joseph Camilleri OAM will present this two-part lecture series. These two lectures focus on Australia: how we see ourselves and ‘others’, how we understand our place in the world, what kind of future we envisage for ourselves and the Earth. Ours is a time...
We are delighted that Bruce Pasco will be visiting St Michael’s to talk about his award-winning book Dark Emu. Bruce will be giving a 1-hour presentation with Q&A in the Waratah Room at 12pm. Bruce Pascoe puts forward a compelling argument for a reconsideration of the hunter-gatherer label for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians. The evidence insists...
“It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.” - Edmund Hillary Join Clinical Psychologist Julijana Chochovski as she explores the keys to motivation. Learn about setting goals and finding rewards in what you do and what you don’t want to do. Time and Date: 11am, Friday 22 September Location: St Michael’s Place, Hall, Ground...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...