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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

……………………………………………………………………..

Coming Soon!

• Third quarter studies now underway!
• The MtE Events Calendar

Advance Notice

• 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.
• 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

……………………………………………………………………..

Coming Soon!

• This Sunday August 10, we’ll continue with John’s Gospel, looking at 2.13-25 and 15.12-17, with a bit of Psalm 139
• Third quarter studies starting next week!
• The MtE Events Calendar

News

• Most recent Assembly news (August 7)
• Most recent Synod News (August 7)

Advance Notice

• 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.
• 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

……………………………………………………………………..

Coming Soon!

• This Sunday August 3, our focus text will be John 20.11-18. You might find it helpful, so far as this week’s sermon goes, to review this sermon from a number of weeks ago.
• Third Quarter Studies 2025 – Passions of the Soul — from August 13/15
• The MtE Events Calendar

Advance Notice

• 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.
• 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