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 admin | Aug 18, 2025 | Articles, Voices of Faith
Rediscovering a Childlike Spirit in an Adult Stage of Faith There’s a strange paradox in the spiritual life – grown-up religion can learn much from the faith of children. Children possess a natural openness to mystery, embracing what they hear from trusted...
by admin | Aug 12, 2025 | Voices of Faith
Embrace The Hidden Riches of Growing Older In much of Western culture, ageing is often seen as something to resist, disguise, or deny. Few leap out of bed each morning with a joyful cry, “Hooray, I’m older than yesterday!” Yet, while the passing...
by admin | Dec 12, 2024 | Articles, Voices of Faith
Hopefulness Wins over Despair Are you an optimist or a pessimist? Some say these are personality traits, shaped by nature and nurture. However, I think there is something even more fundamental than what comes to us from mum, dad, school and society and that is the way...
by admin | Aug 25, 2024 | Articles, Voices of Faith
Movement: Connecting with Body, Mind, and Spirit There is plenty of information on the human Body and physicality and much on the consciousness and the neurological of the Mind . Writings on the Spirit, faith, belief and religion go back thousands of years. How these...
