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FOCUS | October/November 2014 | 2 | In the past week we have seen a third westerner beheaded by ISIS in Syria, a coalition o western and Middle Eastern nations begin to orm to ght ISIS, and our government commit at least some o our orces to this project. ISIS is sometimes called “ISIL” or simply “The Islamic State”. The name stands or the Islamic State o Iraq and Syria, and ISIS is a group quickly gaining ground in the Middle East. With billions o dollars and thousands o well-paid militants, the regime is intent on instituting Sharia Law and establishing a Sunni caliphate in Iraq, Syria and surrounding nations. ISIS targets Christians, non-Sunni Muslims (Shiites) and anyone else who reuses to comply with its version o Sharia Law as it seeks to extend its territory and infuence. While our attention is currently on the havoc being wrought by ISIS, in reality this is just another example o one tribe or ethnic or religious group trying to impose its will on others or exercise power over others. In most respects this is a civil war within Islam in which other minorities (like Christians) have become caught. It’s not just the Middle East however. In South Sudan terrible confict has been underway among South Sudanese people, again on tribal lines and again seeking political power. The troubles in Northern Ireland and the civil unrest in the Solomon Islands are two more examples over recent decades where people who have so much in common can be split along religious or ethnic lines and ght each other. It seems humans are hard-wired or tribalism. We are herd animals, we want to belong to a group and that means that we oten eel the need to dierentiate ourselves against others. We hear the words “what we are”….“what they are not.” As a global community we are struggling to come to terms with the big conficts, and solutions are complex and hard to come by. Some o these conficts have as their root sin – human pride and greed, but sometimes large conficts start very small in a local way. Oten we eel powerless to know what to do about the global problems, but perhaps there are local things we can do which bring peace. One o our greatest challenges is to learn and relearn how to live as good neighbours with each other, whether that neighbour is Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Jew or atheist. Whether that neighbour is a Labor, LNP, Greens or Palmer United Party supporter. Whether they were born in Arica, Asia, Algeria or Australia. Learning to live well as neighbours means avoiding negative ways o relating to people, such as passing judgment on their views, ridiculing them, writing them o, disparaging their eelings, or ignoring them. There are positive things we can do, such as including other people, and being generous, gracious and kind. As Christians we have much to oer in this important work o good neighbourliness. Christ, the one we call Lord, has broken down the barriers between races and groups; we experience the grace o God to be shared with others; we know and understand the power o orgiveness; and have the opportunity or intercessory prayer. But beore we can oer these gits we need to apply them to our own communities, our own parishes and our own amilies. Our own Christian unity must become stronger beore we have any credibility with others. The world needs the git o the Christian gospel, but beore the message can be heard locally or globally it must be lived. Please pray or the perpetrators o the violence and their leaders, please pray or the victims, please pray or world leaders trying to steer a path to peace, please pray or Christians all over the world, that we may live the alternate way which is Jesus. With every blessing, Bishop Geo Smith CONTENTS Breaking down the barriers 16 Perspectives on God Your view 3 Around the Diocese 4 Out and about 14 Oh my God 16 Beyond the Diocese 18 The reugee success who arrived by boat 20 Top o mind 23 Stepping up or Schoolies 26 Arts and entertainment 28 Refection 31 Message from the General Manager CONTACT DETAILS: GPO Box 421, Brisbane, 4001 Ph: (07) 3838 7684 E: focus@anglicanchurchsq.org.au W: anglicanchurchsq.org.au PrINTINg & DISTrIbuTION: Kingswood Press, Underwood PrODuCTION TEAM: Managing Editor: John Austin Journalist: Abby Lu Designer: Gavin Hewitt ADvErTISINg & DISTrIbuTION ENquIrIES: Kris Shapley Ph: 0402 186 292 E: kshapley@anglicanchurchsq.org.au ADvErTISINg DEADLINE: December 2014/January 2015 issue: Friday 24 October 2014 EDITOrIAL DEADLINE: December 2014/January 2015 issue: Friday 24 October 2014 “Oten we eel powerless to know what to do about the global problems, but there are local things we can do which bring peace.” Coe - Zia Talaash - Photo by Rob Maccoll. 23 Mental Health Week 20 Why don't they want his type? 26 Spotlight on
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