by John Power | Sep 7, 2025 | Poems
The bread will be broken, and in its breaking the whole of nature speaks— wheat from the field, sunlight stored in grain, rainfall, soil, and farmer’s hands, all threads in God’s great tapestry. The cup will be lifted, and in its crimson depth we taste the vine’s long...
by admin | Sep 3, 2025 | Voices of Faith
Introduction to John Bottomley’s Sermon on our Colonial Past Rev John Bottomley provided a sermon to a Springvale congregation in April 2025, titled Confessing our Church’s Colonial Captivity. John Bottomley has a long and impressive life of Ministry in the Methodist...
by admin | Sep 3, 2025 | Voices of Faith
Confessing our Church’s Colonial Captivity A sermon by Rev. John Bottomley Phillippians 2: 5-11 Passion Sunday 13 April 2025 Springvale Uniting Church Francis Ormond (1829-1889) arrived in the Victorian colony in 1840 aged 11 years old. At age 25, he took over his...
by John Power | Sep 1, 2025 | Articles, Evolutionary Spirituality
Panpsychism and God: Discovering a Living Universe Panpsychism suggests consciousness is not a late product of evolution but present throughout reality. From atoms to galaxies, all things carry experience. This vision transforms how we see both the cosmos and God—not...
