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Reading the Bible imaginatively

We all read the Bible imaginatively to a certain extent without necessarily recognising it, according to English Scripture scholar Dr Paula Gooder. 

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Country parish celebrates a significant milestone

There are moments in the life of a parish that call us to pause, look back with gratitude, and look forward with hope. March 2026 was such a moment for the Anglican Parish of Warracknabeal — known to generations of faithful Wimmera families simply as Christ Church — as it marked 140 years of spiritual service to its community.

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A new Chinese ministry in Camberwell

St Dunstan’s, Camberwell, has established a new Chinese ministry, having discovered that almost 16 per cent of new residents in the area are Chinese, with eleven per cent of them speaking either Mandarin or Cantonese.

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The Amazing Labyrinth: a parish story from Collingwood

Mazes and labyrinths have been used for hundreds of years, from the landscaping of Hampton Court Palace in England to Chartres Cathedral floor labyrinth in France and to films like Steven Speilberg’s The Maze Runner and Harry Potter’s third task in the Triwizard tournament in the Goblet of Fire. What’s the attraction and what’s the difference?

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Multicultural Melbourne at Worship

Archbishop Ric Thorpe was treated to a dynamic expression of multicultural Anglicanism when he presided and preached at St John’s Footscray last Sunday, 15 February.

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