BackSense of the Faithful invite you to
The Synod and the Australian Church: Where to now?
Wednesday 19 February 2025
You are invited to participate in a webinar that will discuss the global Synod 2021–2024 and its implications for the Australian Church.
Presenting are two Synod participants: Bishop Shane Mackinlay and Dr Sandie Cornish. Their presentations will focus on the final session of the universal Synod in October 2024 and its report For a Synodal Church.They will also highlight issues such as the role of women in the Church, the diversity of opinions across the global Church, and the scope for local autonomy. A key question is how the Australian Church will implement the results of the Synod and address unresolved issues.
There will be ample time for discussion.
EVENT DETAILS
When: Wednesday 19 February 2025
Time: 7:30 pm (AEDT)*
Where: Via Zoom
Cost: FREE
Registration: Click on the button below
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www.senseofthefaithful.org.au.
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SPEAKERS – Their reflection on Synod on Synodality
Bishop Shane Mackinlay
There’s real excitement about the journey that we’ve been part of and the signposts that this will give us for the way forward from here. “We’ve become very aware of the significance of this across the whole of our Church, and it will play out in very different ways in different places. It’s an enormously significant step forward. It’s clearly an experience that’s been very full of the Holy Spirit and guided by the Holy Spirit. I’m tremendously grateful to have been part of it and look forward to the ongoing journey in this synodal process to which we are so committed.
Dr Sandie Cornish
Throughout the journey, we’ve been learning how to be a more synodal Church together, and the process itself has been so important. As one of the facilitators here at the Synod, I feel that this is one of the things that people will take home with them, that we’ve been learning how to be a synodal Church on mission together. People are going home knowing more people from the universal Church, having heard of so many different contexts and different ways of expressing ourselves as a Church on mission. So I hold a lot of hope for the future.
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*Starting times around Australia and Oceania
ACT, NSW, TAS, VIC: 7:30 pm
NT: 6:00 pm
QLD: 6:30 pm
SA: 7:00
WA: 4:30 pm
NZ: 7:30 pm
To determine your local time zone for those of you registering outside of Australia, click here.
