When our ancestors first came here this was a wild, strange land to them. But the people of the Wurundjeri-Willam, the white gum tree clan in the Woi Wurrung language territory of the Kulin Nation, called it home. They cultivated it with fire to provide food, water, medicine and shelter, hearing in it the calling [...]
Renewing the Covenant in the New Year Today we meet, as generations before us have met, to renew that which bound them and now binds us to God. The covenant is that relationship of promise and faithfulness first made through Noah, Abraham and Moses, made new for us in Christ, expressed in baptism and [...]
In our festive pageantry at this time of the year, the star sits atop of every Christmas tree and appears in a dozen different carols. What’s it about? Three things. It’s about light. It’s about creation. And it’s about the Spirit. Graeme Garrett