Jul2015
A bridge and a beacon
by Rachel Kuchel
This is the story of a church for the nation. St Peter’s Canberra: built from contributions of church groups, congregations and people from all over the country and still filled… Read more
Jul2015
It’s ‘a God thing’
by Reid Matthias
At the Lutheran Youth of Queensland annual appeal dinner, I spied someone across the room that I really wanted to talk with: Danielle Robinson. Danielle is the family ministry chaplain… Read more
Jul2015
Pregnant congregations bring life
by Rev Dr Steen Olsen
A healthy tree produces fruit. God created it to do just that. Jesus tells the story of a man who owned a fig tree that produced no figs, so he… Read more
Jun2015
A hearty welcome and new beginning
by Rachel Kuchel
Post-war, one in six Lutherans was a refugee. By the mid-1960s, one in five Australians was a post-war migrant It was a topsy-turvy state of affairs. The world had been… Read more
Jun2015
Welcoming the stranger
by Rev Dr Steen Olsen
For three months we worshipped at a different church each Sunday. Ruth and I had just moved back to Adelaide so I could begin work as the SA/NT Director for… Read more
Jun2015
An alien in the pulpit
by Reid Matthias
Philip Yancey, in his book Vanishing Grace, quotes the former chief rabbi of Great Britain, Jonathon Sacks: ‘The Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) in one verse commands, “You shall love your… Read more



