St Andrew's Anglican Church of Indooroopilly

07/09/2026

Matthew 18:21-35   “…forgiveness is the difficult decision not to allow bitterness and resentment to define our future,” says Archbishop Jeremy Greaves

07/09/2026

Have you been meaning to write your will? This next fortnight offers a great opportunity to get it done.

06/09/2026

Some words witnessing to all those women who speak, live and teach the gospel ...from the wonderful Julia Baird.

All praise to the religious women who refuse to believe their God wanted to keep them beneath men.

06/09/2026

06/09/2026

"How to slow down"
Sermon offered by The Rev'd Suzanne Grimmett for the fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost, 6 September 2026

"This is how you shall eat it: your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it hurriedly. It is the passover of the Lord. "(Exodus 12:11)

There is a need for great readiness. After the years of enslavement, the moment of liberation has arrived and God is telling the people that they need to be ready to move. Those moments do arrive, don’t they? Turning points when we make a decision that will affect the rest of our lives. A sudden understanding and clarity that mean we know how to act. In those moments we may need haste, because old comfortable patterns, addictions or habits of fear may reassert themselves, getting in the way of us taking hold of the liberation being offered.

When to make haste needs to be discerned. We need to know when the time is right, which takes attention to what the Spirit is doing. And it seems that the time for long slow attention is only broken occasionally by moments of action. Arthur Cole Riley comments that “in Exodus we are faced with a God of long slow rescue”, as the people of Israel set out on a forty-year wilderness journey out of slavery after their haste on Passover night.[1] The wilderness is the perfect place for slow attention, and something we all need in different seasons of our life if we are to discern what holds us captive and whether, in fact, we are ready to be free.

And yet today is not an age of slow attention. If you are anything like me, this is something we need to work at to recover, and the Season of Creation can be a perfect reminder to recalibrate and find ourselves attuned to the pace and rhythms of the earth. Yesterday I helped record a podcast with US author, O’neil Van Horn who has written a book called, “Making Hope: Practices, Prayers and Parables for a Changing Climate”. O’neil recalls us to the earthy practices and pursuits of noticing, birding and foraging, amongst others like composting, fermenting and mending. He begins by stating the principle that;

"We cannot care for that which we’ve yet to notice. And we cannot notice without first slowing down." [2]

Slowing down. How do we do it?

(Full sermon linked below.)

04/09/2026

03/09/2026

Humanity must stop pretending it doesn't know what it's doing to the Earth.

That's the message from Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, marking 1 September as both the start of the Orthodox ecclesiastical year and the Day of Prayer for the Protection of the Natural Environment, an observance the Ecumenical Patriarchate established in 1989 and which now brings Christian communities together worldwide: "a symbol and practical promotion of the unity of Christians," as he put it.

"Humanity must at last cease acting as though it does not know and definitively cast aside the illusion that planet Earth can in perpetuity withstand the burdens and destruction caused by human activity, or that nature has the power to renew itself of its own accord."

He's calling for "ecological responsibility" to become "a categorical imperative," for individuals and for humanity as a whole, pointing to the Gospel's parable of the "foolish rich man" as a warning against the consumerism still driving the crisis. What's needed, he says, is nothing less than a "Copernican Turn" in how we understand progress and creation itself.

Read the Patriarch's full message, and find out how your community can join the Season of Creation 👉 https://www.oikoumene.org/news/patriarch-bartholomew-calls-for-global-ecological-solidarity

➡️ More about Season of Creation: https://www.oikoumene.org/news/wcc-to-join-season-of-creation-prayer-amid-climate-extremes

📷 Albin Hillert/WCC

01/09/2026

“We are sustained by healthy soil and clean waterways; by trees, insects, birds and the diversity of creation; by places of faith, learning and care; and, by the gifts, stories and cultures of local people,” says Grow Together Network chair Bishop Sarah Plowman, as she introduces readers to a wo...