As a latecomer to this group, I do not know if the following resource (poem or video) has been previously shared. I suspect that it has. For someone like me, a Pastor of the LCANZ, every time I watch it I am concurrently filled with sadness at the incompleteness of my...

Welcome to the watering hole, a place for meeting Jesus, where the water of life revives thirsting souls, where there’s restoration for crushed people, and lives are made whole by Jesus’ transforming love and grounded in grace! Where Jesus’ love really does come to...

“When I was in prison, you visited me". Matt. 25.43. As I entered the corrections forensic facility on Easter Sunday, I was startled by a huge (to me, anyway!) young Croatian Catholic man calling out: “Thank the Lord - the Church has remembered me!"  This underlined...

Fast forward several years — I’d returned to my home town and congregation after living away. I didn’t know either of the pastors very well. Women’s ordination failed to get the right number of votes again and I was baffled. I wrote an email to the pastors about it...

I have a problem with the label ‘progressive’. It suggests being more concerned with progress over scripture when in my experience, the opposite is true. It is the ‘progressive’ Christians who are the most committed to understanding scripture through vigorous study of...

1st General Convention of Synod, Jerusalem, Year of our Lord 50 “It is a full agenda for this historic general convention of synod. Representatives from Judea to Antioch, as well as from the Jerusalem hosts, are in attendance to discuss matters including the...

It was a privilege to be able to document the following story for one of our most faithful supporters of gender equity and the ordination of women in the church – and also both heartbreaking and inspirational. This amazing woman is as steadfast in her faith and...

I am not used to writing my thoughts anywhere, perhaps other than in cards for special occasions. My response to my thinking is usually in actions rather than words. When I feel passionately about something it is usually regarding a situation where I see room for...

We are called to be faithful; to faithfully follow our Lord. But what does one do when human structures and rules mean that might not be possible? I am facing a dilemma. If I stay in the LCANZ I have few options and no opportunity to explore a call into ministry. Yes,...

One Woman was born in the 1940’s. Her father was a Lutheran pastor and the family were all encouraged to assist in the mission of the church. In the same country town there was a female pastor. One Woman and her friends worshipped at the woman pastor’s church from...