Roundup: Climate change, Waste Not Want Not, worship and entertainment, Norway

Uniting Church to host climate change seminar

A seminar on Climate Change: exploring the facts will be hosted by the Wauchope Uniting Church from 1 to 4 pm on Saturday August 27.

Greig’s campaign turns waste into want

Producers are helping feed those down on their luck thanks to a new campaign.

Should worship be entertaining?

Rather than mimicking or reproducing experiences that are intended to rivet an “audience” (with drums and synthesisers, say, or maybe PowerPoint on a big screen?), we ought to regard worship as the slow transformation of our desires and our dead-end ways.

Norwegian church leaders give thanks for mutual support

Fifteen leaders of dioceses and national church bodies in , among them all 12 bishops of the Church of Norway, joined in common prayer on Wednesday morning August 17 at the Ecumenical Centre chapel in Geneva, Switzerland.

Reflections on the tragedy in Norway

As the world’s attention turns toward the tenth anniversary of 11 September 2001, WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit ponders what we may learn from more recent acts of terror in his homeland.