Equipping ourselves to safeguard the integrity of creation, and sustain and renew the life of the earth. Te Orokohanganga o te Ao/ Na Tina ni Vanua/The Earth as our Mother Anglican Women’s Studies Centre Provincial Hui 2021 St Peter’s School, Cambridge. 13-16 October 2021 Planning is well underway for our 2021 Hui. Last year's hui was postponed because of Covid-19, and we are going ahead with hope that all will be well in October 2021. We have exciting speakers coming from politics, community, church, and academia, with accompanying creative activities across the three tikanga, examining these topics, among others : ...
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Celebrating our three tikanga richness as we move forward AWSC Council and Links gathered for two very interesting days of sharing experience, leadership training, theological reflection, personal growth, and local facilitation. The setting was the hospitable St Francis Retreat Centre, in Hillsborough, Auckland, right beside the beautiful old Pah homestead and Monte Cecilia Park. Council and Links worked together to construct the program for the Provincial Leadership Hui to be held 13-16 October 2021, in the Waikato. It was an exciting and creative process Who's Who? Present back row: Val Riches, Council for tikanga Pakeha; Jean Palmer, alternate Link for ...
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In these Covid-19 days, the United Nations is holding this renowned forum entirely online. 14-26 March 2021. What's more, it is open to all. What an opportunity! How to attend the NGO CSW65 Virtual Forum 14-26 March 2021 Attending the Forum is totally free and open to the public. However, you MUST register and log into a profile on the platform to attend any and all events. https://ngocsw.org/ngocsw65/ WHAT IS THE NGO CSW FORUM? NGO CSW/NY organizes the civil society side of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). The NGO CSW Forum runs parallel to the official ...
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St John’s College Trust Board in Auckland provides scholarships to members of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia, including Ordained ClergyCandidates for OrdinationLay Members Applications are able to be submitted twice a year, with deadlines for submission being 30 September and 31 March each year. https://www.sjctb.co.nz/scholarships ...
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Happiness, sadness, reflection, anger and laugh out loud humour -all can be found in our latest publication. Deep spirituality, theological reflection, profound faith and aroha are also in these pages. Over forty Anglican women , ordained and lay, have written their stories, contributing to a beautiful, moving account of their lives, before during and after the history making decision to ordain women as Priests in the Anglican Church of these islands. Women were encouraged to write in their own voice, thus revealing the texture of our three tikanga church, and the sacredness of each story. from the foreword Order your ...
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The Director for Gender Justice has a critical role at the Anglican Communion Office. The Director: ● Has oversight of the global landscape and best practice, which they are able to share across the provinces; ● Helps to connect gender justice champions with others working in similar areas to share strategies, resources, and learning; ● Provides much needed in-house expertise about how to move towards gender justice; ● Informs and advises the Instruments of Communion so that they can keep track of progress in the provinces and measure progress against its gender justice commitments; and ● Enables vital collaboration for ...
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CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY IN THE MIDST OF COVID-19 COVID-19 changed our lives suddenly and dramatically. As the crisis unfolded, immediate responses at individual, community, national and international levels naturally focussed on the actions needed to treat the sick, limit the spread of the infection and bring it under control, care for those who were particularly vulnerable, manage the economic impact of the pandemic, and so forth. At the same time, many people’s time and energy were consumed by sudden and major changes to working and domestic life, combined with the personal impact of the pandemic on them and their loved ones. ...
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Pandemics and Plagues have been part of the Christian story from the beginning. Discover some podcasts which talk of Catherine of Sienna, Julian of Norwich and Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz and many others, and learn how they coped in times of plague and sickness. Catherine of Siena Much of Catherine of Siena’s life was defined by sickness and plagues. The future saint was born in 1347. The next year, the Black Death began—an epidemic that killed more than 20 million people over the next five years. Despite growing up surrounded by death, Catherine was unafraid. When a plague ...
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