Entries by Jodie McNeill

True Reconciliation

On the 26th of May, this country recognises Sorry Day and it remembers that over 100,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children were taken from their families, many to pass, never to meet any of their loved ones. Many are still walking on this earth looking to find their families.  So it is still a […]

A Day at at Time

From a young age we’ve instilled in our children the need to plan ahead for the future. After all, we want to make sure that we’re prepared in every way for what may occur, and that’s why we think weeks, months and years ahead in our planning. But what if we lived a day at […]

Division Over Unions

For the first time in five years, the national body of the Anglican Church of Australia met this week to discuss many matters, including its teaching about marriage. In this first gathering since the marriage plebiscite in 2017, the members of this so-called ‘General Synod’ were asked to agree to a statement that simply reaffirmed […]

Who rules really?

If you didn’t know better, you’d think that the destruction of Jerusalem and the imprisonment of her leaders was sign of God’s failure. Because when God’s people suffer at the hands of an enemy king, it looks like God is weak, unloving or perhaps just an imaginary being. Yet everything that happened was according to […]

A Kyck for Christ at Katoomba

Last weekend, 30 youth and leaders from Jamberoo Anglican headed up to the Blue Mountains to attend KYCK, a conference for high schoolers. From Friday night until Sunday lunchtime, we gathered together with over 2000 other young Christians. We ‘enjoyed’ the famous Blue Mountains cold and rain for the purpose of meeting together with youth […]