Author: Rose Kentwell
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2026, 9th August
Greetings to the Koonung Heights CommunityI received notification of the 2026 Australian Census during the week. My wife and I have yet to have the conversation as to who will be appointed head of the household and fill it in.Being a minister, I will be interested to see the trends in religion when the results…
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Rewilding Prayer by Sally Douglas
How and why do we pray? A question for all who long to be in communion with God. Sally Douglas offers thoughtful and perceptive ideas and images as well as prayers themselves. These include blessings, prayers of adoration and praise, and prayers of letting go as well as encouraging us to be quiet before God,…
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Leaving Church by Barbara Brown Taylor
This is the description of a faith journey that led Taylor to ordination as a priest. She served in a team ministry for 9 years in a bit urban church before following her dream to become the pastor of her own small congregation. She served the members of this parish church with passion and dedication…
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2026, 2nd August
Greetings to the Koonung Heights Community,I found the presentation from Joel from Prison Fellowship after worship last Sunday interesting and challenging. We sometimes use the language of freedom and captivity in church, but mostly we mean it as a “spiritual” sentiment rather than a literal “I have been released from captivity”. But there is a…
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2026, 12th July
Last Sunday we began our series from the book of Genesis and based upon Abraham and Sarah and their descendants, sometimes known as the Patriarchs. The promise of land, descendants a “blessing that you may be a blessing to all the nations” is given to Abram and Sarai (as they were known then) and this…
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2026, 28th June
Greetings to the Koonung Heights CommunityI had opportunity recently to be in conversation with a psychiatrist who now works with the Victorian Government as head of the state’s Mental Health Services.We began to discuss the apparent escalation of mental health issues in our communities. I asked the question: ‘Why do you think there is such…
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2026, 21st June
“Thank you so much” and “Get lost”Saying thank you can be transformational for the one who hears and the one who speaks. In recent times I have been saying thank you to Gillian by name much more than I used to. It honours her and blesses me.In the Koonung Corner earlier this year I shared…
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2026, 14th June
What’s in a name? One of the delights of having lived among Pacific Island peoples is to have understood how important are the names given at birth. One encounter was with a young Tongan man whose name was Lonisestoni Vaitohi. ‘The name, Lonisestoni, is the Tongan way of saying Launceston, a town in Tasmania. When…
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2026, 7th June
Greetings to the Koonung Heights Community, What to write for the last time? … that’s the question. It seems that saying ‘thanks’ is not enough for all the love, care, support and generosity that I’ve received from the members and friends of Koonung Heights congregation since I was inducted here in 2019. We have done…
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2026, 31st May
Greetings to the Koonung Heights Community, ‘O Lord, our Sovereign, how majestic is your name in all the earth!’ These words are the opening verse of Psalm 8, the psalm for Trinity Sunday which we will celebrate this week. If you read this psalm you will hear these words being repeated in the final verse,…