A Welcoming Australia

Today's service and address was recorded in the Unitarian Meeting House in Adelaide on Sunday, 2nd February, 2020. This podcast records much of the service in its entirety and includes - for its historical value - a vivid, eye-witness account of two of our members helping as volunteers during the Kangaroo Island bushfires that recently burnt half the island.

In today's address, our member, Aaron Poeze spoke on the importance of us continuing to be a welcoming and inclusive church to our visitors and to our members. We also had some fun casting natural inhibitions and reserve aside to practise the gentle art of "open-handed welcoming" amongst ourselves.

Aaron flagged some of the challenges of "welcoming" - especially the national xenophobia to be found within this Island State of ours - as seen in our treatment of refugees. Aaron suggests how we - as a nation, might cast aside our national xenophobia to become "A Welcoming Australia". This address is not to be missed! Listen on!