Living More With Less – A Nonviolent Alternative To Empire
18 September 2024
This workshop was presented by the AAANZ (Anabaptist Association of Australia and New Zealand) and Wellspring Community. Presenters: Mark and Mary Hurst.
It is easy to be overwhelmed by the daily news cycle of war, political corruption, ecological destruction and to feel as individuals there is nothing we can do about it. Big corporations and the empires they support have won! But as Wendell Berry recommends in his wonderful poem Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front, “…every day do something that won’t compute.”
There are alternative nonviolent ways to live. Doris Janzen Longacre, a church relief worker in the early 1970’s, compiled a book named the More With Less Cookbook that has now sold nearly two million copies worldwide. In Longacre’s introduction, she begins by establishing that our actions on behalf of the world’s needs are as important as feeding our own families. To have a positive effect on the world, she outlines the following five principles: (1) do justice, (2) learn from the global community, (3) cherish the natural order, (4) nurture people, and (5) nonconform freely.
Listening to Country: An Indigenous Theology and Spirituality - Part 2
Professor Dr Anne Pattel-Gray speaking at the Listening to Country Series at Pitt Street Uniting Church.
* Please note that Professor Anne has requested a time limit on access to the recording. It will be up until early February 2025.
A Reflection on Asylum Seekers and Refugees by Alison Swinfen
A Youtube video called Civic Space for Boundary Dwellers - Alison Swinfen March 2021
Creation Care Webinar
18 April 2024
Listen to stories of caring for creation from
David Sloane, Wellspring Member from Corowa
Jess Morthorpe, Founder of the Five Leaf Eco-Awards ecumenical environmental change program for churches and religious organisations, co-author of the Climate Pastoral Care Course (online), and has been a Christian environmentalist, advocate and eco-theologian for over 15 years. Jessica has a Masters of Theology, Diploma of Eco-Justice Ministries, and degrees in Science & Commerce.
Rev James Bhagwan (excerpt from the Polkinghorne Oration 2023)
And Lisa Wriley, Wellspring Community Co Leader and Kariong Eco Gardner volunteer.
Myall Creek Massacre - A Collection of Reading Material from Doug Hewitt 2024
Doug, a member of the Wellspring Community, has been a “Friend of Myall Creek” for over 20 years and has been able to attend the commemoration on 10 occasions, two of which have involved taking a bus load of people, first from Strathfield in 2005 and then from Newcastle in 2009. Aunty Sue Blacklock, the late Lyall Monroe and Rev John Brown, founders of the commemoration have been good friends.
Doug has collated some excellent reading material relating to the Myall Creek Massacre. The PDF attachments include: Mark Tedeschi's Address in 2017, a story from The Guardian newspaper in 2022, the Map of the Massacres compiled by Professor Lyndall Ryan of Newcastle University (who sadly died last month), and finally, the collection of articles from the Sydney Morning Herald last year, when the paper issued an apology for their reporting of the trials of the perpetrators in 1838.
Click on the links here to open the documents.
Myall Creek Massacre memorial ceremony Address by Mark Tedeschi AM QC
‘A Light in the Darkness’: The History and Hope of Myall Creek
Listening to Country: An Indigenous Theology and Spirituality - Part 1
21 APRIL 2024
The first of the series, Listening to Country: An Indigenous Theology and Spirituality was recorded and is now available. The recording includes:
1. Yvonne Weldon from the Metropolitan Land Council offering a Welcome to Country.
2. Kate Scholl introducing the series and the speaker.
3. Address by Rev Dr Garry Worete Deverell: Christ as country: Aboriginal spirituality and Christianity in conversation.
Eremos is partnering with Pitt St Uniting Church, St James Institute in Sydney, and the Wellspring Community in collaboration with the School of Indigenous Studies at the University of Divinity to offer this series.
It’s All About Chocolate - Fair Trade Webinar Recording
20 March 2024
Speakers:
Nimmity Zappert, Chairperson of the Fair Trade Association of Australia and New Zealand will speak about Fair Trade beyond the food products of chocolate, coffee, tea.
Sam Platt from Fairtrade Australia (who administer the Fairtrade mark/logo) will speak about chocolate/cocoa and slavery.
John Martin, Wellspring Community member, will talk about what all those labels on our chocolate actually mean.
Polkinghorne Oration 2023
Polkinghorne Oration 2023 - Rev James Baghwan, General Secretary of the Pacific Conference of Churches, presents on the topic 'Oceans of Justice & Rivers of Fairness - A Pacific Voice in the Wilderness'.
Where Spirituality and Justice Meet
Article by Brooke Prentis in Ethos - Thursday, 23 November 2023
A listening pilgrimage across these lands now called Australia
Article by Lisa Wriley in The Australian Friend 3 March 2024
Where spirituality and justice meet: A Pilgrimage
Article by Brooke Prentis in The Australian Friend 3 March 2024
Confronting History: Myall Creek Massacre
SBS On Demand
