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Author Archives: Avril Hannah-Jones
Sermon: Humility is not always a virtue
… there are many people who, far from being proud, lack even an appropriate self-esteem … Continue reading
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Tagged humility, Joel 2:23-34, Luke 18:9-14, mental health, mental illness, pride, Year of Luke
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Prayer of Confession for the Depressed
“Do not fear. I have redeemed you.
I have called you by name. You are mine”. Continue reading
Posted in Liturgy
Tagged faith, Luke 18:9-14, mental health, mental illness, prayer, Prayer of Confession, Religion, sexuality
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Reflecting on my mental health or lack thereof
the most horrible symptom of depression that I experience is my feeling that I am useless and worthless and that the people who love me would be better off without me Continue reading
Posted in Reflection
Tagged depression, faith, mental health, mental illness, prayer, Religion, suicide, World Mental Health Day
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Prayer of Confession and Lament in Response to the Massacre in Orlando
… without every single one of us your rainbow shines less bright. Continue reading
Posted in Reflection
Tagged lament, Prayer of Confession, sexuality, uniting church in australia, Year of Luke
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From the thesis: The Church and the Law
From the late nineteen sixties the predecessors of the Uniting Church called for the decriminalisation of male homosexuality, and in the eighties and nineties the leadership of the Uniting Church supported the addition of sexuality to the prohibited grounds of discrimination in equal opportunity legislation. Continue reading
Posted in Political Activism, Random Musings, Reflection
Tagged history, homosexuality, law, thesis, uniting church in australia
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Sermon: Calling God ‘She’
The fruits of the Holy Spirit include patience, kindness, gentleness, and self-control. Sadly, I frequently fail to demonstrate the fruits of the Spirit on social media. Continue reading
Sermon: More about justice (really, Avril is obsessed)
Whenever we find ourselves tired and frustrated by injustice in the world, remember the story of the campaign against slavery. Continue reading
Posted in Sermons
Tagged Acts 16:16-34, anti-Semitism, economics, Justice, Sermon, slavery, Uniting Church, Uniting Justice, Year of Luke
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Sermon: Living as though the world were what it should be, to show it what it can be
But as Martin Luther King is quoted as saying: ‘The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice’ Continue reading
Sermon: Forgiveness and Mercy
‘And all the wickedness in this world that man might work or think/Is no more to the mercy of God than a live coal in the sea.’ Continue reading
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Tagged A Vision of Piers Plowman, Acts 9:1-20, Apostle Peter, Easter 3, forgiveness, John 21:1-19, Mercy
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Sermon: Being at peace with God and one another
Sermon for Williamstown 3rd of April 2016 John 20:19-31 The picture on the screen is Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio’s The Incredulity of Saint Thomas, painted in 1602. I’m not sure whether you can see it clearly enough, but in the painting … Continue reading
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Tagged Easter 2, Holy Spirit, John 20:19-31, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Peace, Saint Thomas
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