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Coming Soon!

• Worship on THIS SUNDAY September 21 will be combined at Church of All Nations, 180 Palmerston Street, Carlton, at 10.00am, with a lunch to follow (provided by CAN).
• MtE will lead a prayer service with the CTM community in the CTM chapel on Tues September 23, praying for peace in Israel and Palestine. The service will commence at 10.30am and run for 20-25 minutes.
• The MtE Events Calendar

News

• Most recent Assembly news (September 11 and September 18)
• Recent posts on Craig’s Faith after Faith:
  • Story as responsibility

Advance Notice – Other

• Monday Movies at the Nova. This coming Monday, October 6. The movie and time will be advised late in the week prior. A WhatsApp group has been set up for communication around this in future, including having a say in the next movie!
• Quarterly Conversation on the Quarterly Essay: Friday October 17, 11.00–12.30, in the library at the Center for Theology and Ministry.

Other things which might interest

• Previous sermons and services (video recordings)
• MtE (and friends!) study groups

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Coming Soon!

• This Sunday September 14, our focus text will be John 15.1-17, with particular attention to “love”.
• PLEASE NOTE: Worship on Sunday September 21 will be combined at Church of All Nations, 180 Palmerston Street, Carlton, at 10.00am
• MtE will lead a prayer service with the CTM community in the CTM chapel on Tues September 23, praying for peace in Israel and Palestine. The service will commence at 10.30am and run for 20-25minutes.
• The MtE Events Calendar

News

• Most recent Assembly news (September 4)
• Most recent Synod news (September 11)
• Recent posts on Craig’s Faith after Faith:
  • A reflection on the difference between value and price
  • More Theological Fragments
  • Death by Aphorism continues

Advance Notice – Other

• Monday Movies at the Nova. This coming Monday, October 6. The movie and time will be advisee late in the week prior. A WhatsApp group has been set up for communication around this in future, including having a say in the next movie!
• Quarterly Conversation on the Quarterly Essay: Friday October 17, 11.00–12.30, in the library at the Center for Theology and Ministry.

Wesley Centre

MtE is a sponsor of the Wesley Centre

Confronting Extremism – a Wesley conversation with Mark Duckworth

• Join us for an important conversation on the rise and resurgence of violent extremist movements in Australia. Robyn Whitaker sits down with Mark Duckworth, an expert on violent extremism and counter measures, to discuss the theology and ideology of such views as well as how we can helpfully respond to combat them.
• 12.30 – 1.30pm on Thursday 18th September at Wesley Church, Lonsdale Street.
• This is part of the Wesley Centre’s “Conversations that Matter” series. Find out more at www.thewesleycentre.org/conversations-that-matter

Other things which might interest

• Previous sermons and services (video recordings)
• MtE (and friends!) study groups

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Coming Soon!

• This Sunday September 7, our focus text will be John 12.27-36.
• The MtE Events Calendar

News

• Recent posts on Craig’s Faith after faith:
  • An “archival” piece on the prospects of athiesm
  • A new slow-growth project: Theological Fragments

Advance Notice

• Quarterly Conversation on the Quarterly Essay: Friday October 17, 11.00–12.30, in the library at the Center for Theology and Ministry.

Other things which might interest

Previous sermons and services (video recordings)

• MtE (and friends!) study groups

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Coming Soon!

• This Sunday August 31, Robert Gribben will be leading worship at MtE; the lectionary readings are here
• Monday Movies at the Nova. This coming Monday, Sept 1. The selected movie is Irena’s Vow. Showing at 11.50am. Meet upstairs in the foyer to buy tickets at 11.30; is coffee available in the cafe next to the box office, and you can stay for a toastie lunch and conversation in the cafe afterwards if you can. A WhatsApp group has been set up for communication around this in future.
• The MtE Events Calendar

News

• The most recent post from the Synod Justice Unit (August 26)
• Mending Our Social Fabric: Learning from Palestinian and Israeli Women Peacebuilders
• Most recent Assembly news (August 21)
• Mending Our Social Fabric: Learning from Palestinian and Israeli Women Peacebuilders
• Recent posts on Craig’s Faith after faith:
  • Last week’s sermon
  • Reflections on this weekend’s Synod meeting: (A tale of two Synods?, The church between convenience and necessity and On the sustainable church)
  • Death by aphorism — a long-term project

Advance Notice

• Quarterly Conversation on the Quarterly Essay: Friday October 17, 11.00–12.30, in the library at the Center for Theology and Ministry.

Wesley Centre

MtE is a sponsor of the Wesly Centre

• 21st August -The Ethics of Making Progress: The How and Why of Policymaking, with former MP Jenny Macklin. Making Progress (with Joel Deane – pictured) tells the stories behind transformational initiatives such as the Apology to the Stolen Generations, paid parental leave and the National Disability Insurance Scheme, as well as pension reforms that lifted one million Australians out of poverty. In this conversation, Jenny Macklin will discuss the values that animated her political career, and the lessons she learned about how good policy happens.

Other things which might interest

Previous sermons and services (video recordings)

• MtE (and friends!) study groups

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Coming Soon!

• This Sunday August 24, our focus text will be John 11, with particular attention v.25: “I am the resurrection and the life”.
• Monday Movies at the Nova. This group got off to a shaky start last week! Those there thought we’d continue to give it a go, trialling the first Monday of the month from September (Monday September 1). As the weekly movie schedule is only published on the prior Thursday, advice of movie and time chosen will be late in that week, but will aim in the time zone of a 1000-1030 start, with coffee/toasties in the Nova’s own cafe for those interested to stay and discuss the film.
• The MtE Events Calendar

News

• Craig has begun to publish various odds and ends on a new Substack page, Faith after Faith. This an experiment in making such things as Sunday sermons, with further commentary, more widely accessible, as well as an attempt to construct a space for reflection on being Christian in a “post-” era: and not least after the death of God in Western culture. Substack sites and posts sit around waiting for whenever people think to go looking for them, or it’s possible to subscribe for free to receive notifications of when new stuff is posted.
• Third quarter studies are now underway!
• The most recent post from the Synod Justice Unit (August 15): Mending Our Social Fabric: Learning from Palestinian and Israeli Women Peacebuilders
• Most recent Presbytery News (August 17)
• Most recent Synod News (August 21)

Advance Notice

• Quarterly Conversation on the Quarterly Essay: Friday October 17, 11.00–12.30, in the library at the Center for Theology and Ministry.

Wesley Centre

MtE is a sponsor of the Wesly Centre

• 21st August -The Ethics of Making Progress: The How and Why of Policymaking, with former MP Jenny Macklin. Making Progress (with Joel Deane – pictured) tells the stories behind transformational initiatives such as the Apology to the Stolen Generations, paid parental leave and the National Disability Insurance Scheme, as well as pension reforms that lifted one million Australians out of poverty. In this conversation, Jenny Macklin will discuss the values that animated her political career, and the lessons she learned about how good policy happens.

Other things which might interest

Previous sermons and services (video recordings)

• MtE (and friends!) study groups