The Bible is a book with a well-documented past, but an uncertain future.

Once the meta-narrative for a civilization, it now struggles to engage the public imagination in a global village.

Can it be reclaimed from the grip of religious conservatives to serve once more as a source of hope and meaning?

This full-day workshop will explore selected themes that are relevant to a critical reading of the Bible today and in the immediate future: unholy use of the Holy Bible, multiple readings of the same Scriptures, reclaiming the Bible for progressives, and reading with critical imagination.

For full details and to download a brochure click here.

There have been a few changes and a few additions, so make sure you look carefully at the Calendar and update your diary accordingly.

The Calendar lists all of our Holy Week and Easter Service times, which can also be found here.

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As Bruce Epperly suggests, “The brevity and uncertainty of life now invites [us] to praise, wonder, and beauty, and to seize the moment—for this is the day God has made and I will rejoice in it! All that I love and care for is mortal and transitory, but mortality is the inspiration to celebration and love. Plato once described time as the moving image of eternity. We are constantly dying, but we are also constantly living as we reflect God’s vision in the world of the flesh. This day, this moment, is a “thin place,” for God is with us, revealed in flesh, blood, and healing touch.”

The services will be at 7.30am and 5.30pm – all are welcome.

This special, shortened, service is a chance for us to celebrate all the gifts brought into our lives by the animals with whom we share our Earth.

Please join us on October 3 at 9.00am as we celebrate with all of creation.

If you would like to download a flier to display at your local school or shops, please click on the image.

Norm will be with us for a full day seminar on Saturday 4 September and will be our guest preacher at 9.00am on Sunday 5 September.

For full details of the seminar download a copy of the seminar brochure.

Norm Habel is an old testament scholar with a passion for the environment. He has written numerous books, the most recent of which is An Inconvenient Text. Norm has also been instrumental in progressing the celebration of A Season of Creation in churches around the world.

This week we begin our Lenten study groups. There are three groups meeting each week to reflect on the Gospel passages for the Sundays during Lent. The groups are meeting on Tuesdays at 10.00am and 7.30pm and on Wednesdays at 7.30pm. All groups are meeting in the Harbour Room at Christ Church Cathedral.

You are most welcome to join us or you can join in the discussion on our Facebook page (go to the discussions tab – you need to have a Facebook account to participate… very easy to set up if you don’t already have one)

To see what else is happening at the Cathedral check out our online calender here

With music provided by the Darwin City Brass Band, we hope people will come and see what it is we do here on Sunday mornings and why we think we have something worth sharing.

As part of the service the Dean will offer an apology to those who may have been hurt by the church in the past, either at the Cathedral or in other places.

We hope many people will accept our invitation to “come as you are” on Back to Church Sunday.

Who have you invited back to church?

Click here to see what else is happening at the Cathedral this month.