Highfields Anglicans

If there’s one thing Jesus is opposed to, it’s hoarding—and it’s not just about physical possessions. The ego is the ultimate hoarder. It hangs on to everything. We hoard our entitlements: I am rich, I am educated, I am a person of authority. We hoard our principles and ideologies; we hoard our self-justifications and our resentments. We use all these things to line the nest of our fragile sense of selfhood.
- Cynthia Bourgeault

Giving Is Receiving In CAC’s online course The Divine Exchange, Cynthia Bourgeault considers one of Jesus’s parables through the lens of interconnection and abundance. For

... when asked recently why am I still a church person - I quietly answered, Because I am in need of help. Perhaps now more than ever. I need help to pray, help to forgive (mostly myself and also others), help to remember that there is a bigger, truer story than the one I am being sold every day of my life on the internet. I am, as the gospel song goes-standing in the need of prayer. And I assume I am not alone in that.
- Nadia Bolz-Weber

I am in need of help. As Jesus was walking along, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax booth; and he said to him, “Follow me.”

Our next Movies That Matter is on Thursday 18 June at 7 pm at St James in Toowoomba.

We will be watching and discussing four short films on Modern Slavery.