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Church under Coronavirus: Edinburgh North Church

May 12, 2020 by Matthew Baines

After completing his BD at Moore in 2014 and serving as an assistant minister at Minchinbury Anglican Church, Matt Baines and his family moved to Scotland where he is completing a PhD in historical theology at the University of Edinburgh. They…

How are you going?

May 7, 2020 by Leah Blake

How are you going with the outbreak of COVID-19? Maybe you have activated your epidemic plan and you have enough rice, pasta and mince to last until Christmas. Or perhaps you had originally taken a laid-back approach and you are now are…

Three Gospel Truths Keeping Me Sane During Quarantine

April 30, 2020 by Stef Overhall

I write this during our fourth week of school closures here in Santiago, Chile. Our region is about to enter its third week of formal quarantine, which means we can only leave the home under the strictest conditions (formal quarantine restrictions…

Can you imagine?

April 28, 2020 by Angus Martin

Imagine the threat of a dangerous disease. Imagine the anxiety about becoming infected, the constant stress eating away at you. Imagine what it could do to your family, what it would do to your social life. Can you imagine? Maybe you don’t have…

Anglicans and pandemics: 101 years on

April 21, 2020 by Bronwyn Windsor

This is not the first time that the ACR has seen a pandemic. From 1880, the Church Record, as it was known, reported on all the news relating to the Anglican Church in Australia and New Zealand. So I did a bit of research and trawled through the archives…

Waiting

April 16, 2020 by Susan An

We are not a culture that is adept at waiting. Whenever we are in a queue, most people whip out their phones to entertain themselves. A popular app was ‘Beat the Q’, which let you order coffee on the way so that when you arrived, it would be waiting…

When nothing will stand still #1: Reflections on Hebrews 12

April 14, 2020 by Emma Newling

Monday, 23 March 2020, 23:09 I’ll be honest with you, I’m drinking more coffee. Nespresso pods do not seem to be in short supply… yet. Many things I regularly fail to navigate well in family life have been… amped up. And almost everything I love…