Gembrook to plant Seeds of Radical Christianity

U R G E N T

STOP  PRESS

 NEEDS  ACTION

 

BIOTECHNOLOGY GONE MAD

Large Brand-name Corporations promote eating human tissue

 http://ecofaithnow.blogspot.com.au/2012/07/coca-cola-pepsi-nestle-kraft-promote.html

What do you call a Conference looking into a Christian genre that

 hasn't even been born yet??

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Are you a Christian anarchist (or anarchic Christian) without knowing it??

By the way, the LORD knows Christianity is in urgent need of a fix. (Not rocket science!)

The post-modern era spells Dire Straits for meaningful Christianity.

 Even Robert Schuler's Crystal Cathedral in California has crashed!!

  (But you won't find a word about it on the Church website. Churches are anything

 but transparent organisations!)

   Tumult at megachurch - Christian Science Monitor predicts megachurch domino effect

   video: Rev Schuler's vision ends in Catholic takeover

Enter a bearded man. SHANE is married with two children. He lives at Gembrook and sometimes chooses to live on Melbourne streets. He had an idea. Steve and Jane approved. It's starts on May 6 AD2012

So  the  first  Christian  Anarchist  weekend  was  birthed.

 

i was at  Loophole Community  when I heard a lady discussing it with Cranky Phil, a former Food-Not-Bombs guru with a thick metal nosering. So I thought I'd publicise this very interesting once-in-a-lifetime gathering.

Here is Shane's  CHRITIANARCHY  flyer

Seeds of a New World

   (Keeping up with anarchist tradition, he has given a wrong email address!)

Gembrook Retreat (NOT a megachurch) is a Quaker-associated

 hilly farm with chestnut trees, flowers and more.

 They encourage  

Home  Schooling too!!

 The Quakers (aka Society of Friends) is a denomination having home gatherings.

Well...

Main house, Gembrook Retreat

Gembrook is in the Dandenong Ranges outside Melbourne.

 It's past Cockatoo. The historic Puffing Billy steam train 

 now terminates there.

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        Contact Gembrook Retreat

                      - and taste some live chestnuts?

Only $20 for the weekend

 Anarchist prices!!

            GEMBROOK  RETREAT
                215 Beenak East Road

                Gembrook

                03  5968 1211

                info@gembrookretreat.org.au

SOME  LINKS ...................

 Websites, Blogs

    Marcus Curnow  (the Great, Vic)              Ched Myers (Marcus likes his Stuff)
                 Servants (to Asia's Urban Poor)                       Brian Edgar's Public Theology
                          Dave Andrews  (author: Christi-anarchy; Waiters Union Qld)
Simon Moyle (Peace Nazi & Pastor)              Emergent Village (voice of 'Emerging Church', USA)                       Ethos Australia       Urban Seed (Vic)             Home Schooling Australia      Peter Corney (Vic)

  Liberationtheology.org                               Genesis Farm (NY, USA)

Mainly for the ladies
       Sarah Buckley (Qld)

Churches
 New Earth Tribe (Byron Bay, NSW)                 Solomon's Porch (Minnesota, USA)
                     St Matthews Lutheran (Footscray, Vic)

Articles
                                      Silent Carmelite nuns take on Coal Seam Gas Inc
Written lecture - Mysticism, action, Christianarchy (Adf, 2000)   Thomas Merton (Wikipedia)
                                                                   Dorothy Day (Wikipedia)

Will we allow Abbotsford Biscuits community factory close??

SOS!!

            Abbotsford  Biscuits  is...

•   a small factory in Victoria Street in inner Melbourne
•   a non-profit employment-creating business
•   near to Abbotsford Breweries and unique community restaurant Lentil As Anything

           Abbotsford Biscuits  is closing

     Why are we allowing a noble enterprise to die??

     Why - especially when our Australian food industry is bleeding from foreign ownership.  

 

Please, do whatever you can to help this non-profit business.

    At the least

      ::  send this info to friends

      ::  write to AB and express your feelings  order@jss.org.au

In this increasingly worldly world, people still have some power!  (Use it or lose it, my Mum used to say)

  Melbourne Leader front-page article

http://melbourne-leader.whereilive.com.au/news/story/abbotsford-biscuit-kitchen-crumbles

  Jesuit Social Services page on Abbotsford Biscuits

http://www.jss.org.au/content/view/87/120

  Detailed letter from CEO, Jesuit Social Services

www.abbotsfordbiscuits.com.au

  Unrelated "Abbotsford Blog" (2006)

Give the flip to FITZROY CREDIT UNION

   BOYCOTT 
         FITZROY CREDIT UNION.


                BOYCOTT
        FITZROY CREDIT UNION.



Supposedly Fitzroy & Carlton Credit Union in Brunswick St Fitzroy (Melbourne's 1st suburb) treats its 4000+ Members with respect.  That's R-E-S-P-E-C-T !!!!!!!!!!

Yet they are charging poor people $2.00 per month for the priveledge of banking with them.  Regardless of how often the account is used!!  (The fees started in July 2009 and many people only realised on receipt of the 6-monthly Statement in December!)

This is outrageous and points to bad management.  Many financial institutions are in fact winding back fees.

Caveat Emptor. Buyer beware.  Don't pay bank fees, especially if you're poor..  For example, open a low-income Concession/Basic Account.  Financial institutions should NOT charge fees.  Especially when Australian funds are generally GUARANTEED by the Federal government and bank profits are rising.

Other banking organisations are bending over backwards for consumers.  Online accounts offer handsome interest rates.  (Deposits and withdrawals must be made through the normal 'everyday' account.)  They are convenient too.

The best online account at present (as at early 2010) is MEMBERS EQUITY (Me) Bank which returns 4.85% per annum. (Term deposit, 3 months, 5.75%pa.) Deposits and withdrawals via accounts of other banks, which may charge a fee, eg 20 cents.  i've heard the Uniting Church has a Development Fund which returns 4.25%.  These rates are not just 3-month rates.  If you can lock your money ($5000+) away for at least 3 months, the Sandhurst Trustees Investment Fund pay a variable rate of over 5%).  The Bendigo Bank subsidiary only lends money on first mortgages. Just apply at your local Bendigo Bank Community Bank. (That way, the local Community will also benefit.).

The Commonwealth Bank is probably the worst for paying interest.  CBA doesn't need to care about paying interest.  It's got loads of money just sitting in cheque accounts.  Don't go near them.

  BOYCOTT  FITZROY  CREDIT  UNION.
             BOYCOTT FITZROY CREDIT UNION.

         BOYCOTT FITZROY CREDIT UNION.


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