In this edition of The Transit Lounge we explore what a promise really is. In light of the devastation in Victoria we also try and find an answer to ‘did God cause the bushfires?’
The emergence of God in disaster
Nicole Reardon
As the bushfires continue in Victoria, leaving devastation in their wake, there has been a public cry for help from a higher power – help from none other than… God. ‘What the?!’ you ask. Isn’t Australia SECULAR? Don’t we TAKE CARE OF OURSELVES? Why is God getting such publicity at this time? Read more...
Promises promises - Rudd's report card
Meera Atkinson
Promises are to politics what pointe shoes are to ballerinas — without them there would be no dance. As the Labor Government begins its second year in office, The Transit Lounge looks at five promises the Labor Party made in the lead up to the 2007 Federal Election, and how its fared since. Read more...
Pandering to postcode potential
Mardi Lumsden
I still remember the tense episode of Beverly Hills 90210 (the original version) when class brain Andrea Zuckerman nearly got kicked out of the school because she didn’t really live in the Beverly Hills High School catchment area. Read more...
Sofas and snacks: a new kind of church
Meera Atkinson
Sofas fill the belly of Café Church; a once old style cinema turned Uniting Church in Glebe, Sydney. You can grab a cup of coffee at any stage during Sunday night worship. There are no pews and no minister. Instead there are jazz gigs, an environmental justice team, a food co-op and other projects. This is the new face of Christianity and a different kind of community covenant. Read more...
Called to support her people in Adelaide
Jill Freear
Sudanese refugee Amel Manyon has always had a passion for God and for serving others. This passion grew into a feeling that she was called to be a minister but, growing up in war-torn Sudan, that simply wasn’t an option for her. Now, after arriving in Adelaide as a refugee in 2002, Amel looks like she just might finally fulfill her dream. Read more...
Redeeming love
Meera Atkinson
They say love makes the world go around. Marriage counsellor Peter Pereira believes the way that most people do marriage sooner or later brings their world to a grinding halt. Read more...
The Godparent
Meera Atkinson
The classic film The Godfather may have given it a bad name but godparenting comes in all shapes and sizes. It’s a Christian tradition, popular among Anglicans and Catholics, that asks a non-family member to sponsor a child’s baptism and provide religious guidance throughout the child’s life. Read more...
God in the bad and the good
Dean Drayton
Is God in the bad stuff as well as the good stuff? God to be God is to be the source of all, the very framework of time and space, the very being of all that is, for in God we live and move and have our being. Read more...
Fire-time visit
John Emmett
At last the roadblocks are open. I am driving to Chum Creek. Five days ago we evacuated my grandsons to my home. We thought a day or two’s relief from a potential bush fire zone to be prudent. For five days now I have heard tragic stories and seen frightening images of the horrendous fires in the Kilmore-Kinglake-Marysville region. Mike had told me stories about fighting fire on his property, too. Read more...
Integrity in the workplace
Meera Atkinson
Anyone can make a promise but not everyone keeps them. So what makes a person honourable on the job? Read more...
Songs of promise
Meera Atkinson
Promises made, kept and broken, the promise of a far off place or state of being, the promise made by God, all these and more are saluted here in The Transit Lounge’s selection of great songs about promises. Read more...
Lie to me
Nicole Reardon
The television ratings period has started again and with it has come a long list of new programs including Lie to Me, which airs on Channel 10. Read more...
The Ten Commandments
Nicole Reardon
Sunday school children are taught to recite them, Cecil DeMille received high praise for his film about them and, more recently, Rev Dr Francis McNab has caused great controversy with his public declarations on them. There is no denying the Ten Commandments have had an impact. Read more...
Covenant as God's promise
Sandy Yule
A promise is a funny thing. There are many ways to keep it, some grudging, some gracious. Read more...
Unpack Links
Rudd's report Card
- Become a climate change volunteer
Postcode Potential
Café Church
Godparenting
The Ten Commandments
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Love is not a thing to give and receive.
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And eternally be. ."
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