Did you know that September 1st to October 4th is Creationtide? Creationtide or the Season of Creation is the period in the annual church calendar dedicated to God as Creator and Sustainer of all life. To join in on the season, library volunteer Greg from St Bede’s Anglican Church, Semaphore helped set up book … Continue reading "Creationtide"...
read moreThe below is transcript of a sermon entitled Keep Lighting Candles preached by SBC Homiletics lecturer, The Rev’d Canon Jenny Wilson. It has been taken from her newly released book Keeping Watch for Kingfishers: God Stories which is an anthology of selected sermons from her time in ministry. In a speech during his time as … Continue reading "Keep Lighting Candles"...
read moreWith the relaxing of COVID-19 restrictions, SBC is set for return-to-campus teaching next semester. However, whilst most students will have embarked on their mid-semester break, a few find themselves at the college for a series of intensives. Undertaking the Graduate Certificate in Ministry (Supervision stream) are the committed students of MIN525 – Professional Supervision … Continue reading "Supervision Intensives"...
read moreTo repeat what has now become a cliché, we certainly live in unprecedented times. The challenge of COVID-19 has forced all of us to adapt to new ways of work and communication. The requirement of physical distancing and the restrictions on gathering has forced us all to become disconnected and, in some cases, discombobulated. … Continue reading "St Barnabas Day Morning Prayer – A Wrap Up"...
read moreDid you know that this year marks the 140th anniversary of St Barnabas College? To celebrate in this time of COIVD-19 restrictions we will be hosting a special Morning Prayer service on St Barnabas’ Day, Thursday June 11th, at 9:00am on Zoom. This will include a short address by the Principal, titled “In the Footsteps … Continue reading "St Barnabas Day Morning Prayer"...
read morePlease enjoy this recorded webinar of Company of Preachers – an initiative of both SBC and St Peter’s Cathedral in helping equip the clergy of the province in their calling as preachers. This session is presented by The Rev’d Dr Ruth Mathieson, lecturer in Biblical Studies and New Testament....
read moreA new edition of SBC’s newsletter has been released! Contained within: An Easter reflection in light of COVID-19 A round-up of the SuperVision conference An interview with our Academic Manager Check it out here. ...
read moreCollege Re-opening The College now has in place a plan for the safe re-opening of the College and Library from Monday, 29 June 2020 and for face-to-face lectures recommencing in Semester 2 on 13 July 2020. Should you have any health vulnerabilities or concerns regarding: On-site working please contact Cathy Thomson at cthomson@sbc.edu.au Accessing the … Continue reading "COVID-19 Update"...
read moreBeginning 2020 Our annual commencement service was held on Wednesday 19th February. Hosted in St Peter’s Cathedral, it was a fantastic opportunity to acknowledge the previous year’s graduates and the recipients of academic awards; to hear an address from The Right Rev’d John Stead, Bishop of the Diocese of Willochra; and to participate in the … Continue reading "Commencement 2020"...
read moreIn response to the COVID-19 Pandemic, St Barnabas College (SBC) has escalated its risk management strategy to Plan B: Restriction of class “gatherings”. This entails the following: Lectures will be transitioning, for students, to a solely online environment from Thursday 19th March, the library will be closed to all students and community borrowers from … Continue reading "SBC COVID-19 Announcement"...
read moreA new edition of SBC’s Newsletter has been released! Contained within: A reflection from the new Principal A story about bringing Christmas cheer with The Rev’d Dr Gillies Ambler An interview with Operations Manager, Maria Harrison Check it out here!...
read moreBook Review by John Littleton Olav Fykse Tveit, 2016. The Truth We Owe Each Other: Mutual Accountability in the Ecumenical Movement. Geneva: World Council of Churches (WCC). 353 pages. The Rev’d. Dr. Olav Fykse Tveit, Lutheran pastor from the Church of Norway, is General Secretary of the World Council of Churches. The Truth We Owe … Continue reading "Mutual Accountability and the Unity of the Church"...
read moreOn Wednesday 11th December, the college community gathered together to farewell The Rev’d Dr Don Owers who ceases his tenure as Principal of the college at close of business on Friday 13th of December. Don was initially asked in late 2017 to function as Acting Principal for a few months whilst a replacement Principal … Continue reading "Don’s Farewell"...
read moreI recently completed an Honour’s thesis on the Atonement, seeing salvation as reconciliation and the renewal of human nature, including the overcoming of death through the Resurrection, achieved by union with the incarnate Christ. I studied this concept in the works of Paul, Irenaeus of Lyons and Athanasius of Alexandria. The Incarnation of the Second … Continue reading "The Renewal of our Nature"...
read moreBushfires Loving God, our prayers today are where our hearts and minds have been during last week: with the victims of the bushfires. We pray for those who mourn their dead: families, neighbours, school friends, workmates. O God, divine friend, be with them in their desperate sorrow. Comfort their torn hearts and heal them from … Continue reading "Bushfires"...
read moreA Volunteer’s Experience in the SBC Library Just the other day I was struck by the wealth of knowledge we have here at St Barnabas College, both with respect to the educational capacity of our resources, staff and volunteers, but also in terms of the lived experience of those who are involved in the life … Continue reading "Taking a Trip Down Memory Lane"...
read moreI was reflecting recently on the new covenant expressed in Jeremiah 31:31–34: “I will put my law in their inward parts and write it in their hearts; and will be their God and they will be my people”. Rather than focusing on a relationship with God only through the law or teachers or a … Continue reading "Downdetector"...
read moreSuperVision Equipping the Saints for Transformative Ministry Supported by Charles Sturt University (CSU) and AnglicareSA, St Barnabas College (SBC) is hosting a four day conference with Dr Michael Paterson of The Institute of Pastoral Supervision & Reflective Practice. Michael is an Anglican priest, psychotherapist, spiritual director, pastoral supervisor and trainer based in Fife, Scotland. He … Continue reading "SuperVision Conference"...
read moreOgden, Steven, G. 2017. The Church, Authority, and Foucault: Imagining the Church as an Open Space of Freedom. London and New York: Routledge. 180 Pages. These reflections flow on from Part 1. The Church, Authority and Foucault: Imagining the Church as an Open Space of Freedom is a work of academic theology, which draws on … Continue reading "Book Review: Steven Ogden on Church, Authority, and Foucault (Part 2)"...
read moreOgden, Steven, G. 2017. The Church, Authority, and Foucault: Imagining the Church as an Open Space of Freedom. London and New York: Routledge. Steven Ogden is the Parish Priest at St Oswald’s Anglican Church, Parkside, Adelaide, SA. The Church, Authority, and Foucault is an impressive book, an original work on the Anglican Church of … Continue reading "Book Review: Steven Ogden on Church, Authority, and Foucault (Part 1)"...
read moreThis blog post will involve a change of tack from my previous, much more analytically driven posts (here, here, here, and here), and will be somewhat more reliant on the anecdotal – though I do think it has an internal logic and should be investigated in an empirical fashion. I’ve made comments before about the … Continue reading "Finding God Through Google"...
read moreDon’t forget, St Peter’s Cathedral is hosting a creation care seminar in three weekend’s time! Sign up here....
read morePlease see below, an important email from Archbishop Geoffrey Smith of the Anglican Diocese of Adelaide. Dear Colleagues I am very pleased to let you know that the Reverend Dr Cathy Thomson has been appointed to be the next Principal of St Barnabas College. Cathy has been serving as Academic Dean of the College … Continue reading "Announcement from the Archbishop of Adelaide"...
read moreJohn J, Shea, 2018. Adulthood, Morality, and the Fully Human: A Mosaic of Peace. Lanham, USA and London, UK: Lexington Books. 295 Pages. This ambitious work does not disappoint. We are all human beings. But what might it mean to be fully human? Impressively, John Shea, using a developmental perspective, describes and discusses the attributes … Continue reading "Book Review: John Shea on the Fully Human"...
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