From our Chaplains
This coming Sunday is Christ the King Sunday, and whilst in polite company we often think religion and politics don’t mix – Christ the King Sunday is political. It is the Christian tradition attempting to challenge our understanding and relationship with power. The introduction of servant leadership, where power is exercised for the benefit of all, but specifically for those who need it most – those on the fringes, those on the receiving end of prejudice.
It is a privilege to be a part of this school community, where our young people recognise that to be human is to be political. They want to make a contribution to the world we share. And to be a part of the change the world needs. They are idealist and want to challenge us to be more idealistic, as the adults in their lives. Last week in our chapel services, some of the first nations students spoke about the importance of communicating, of listening to each other’s stories and introducing the Talking Circle, which has been created in the back of the College promoting the value of the first nations tradition and what we can learn from them (more to come on this).
There are many issues our young people are concerned about and wanting the adults in their lives, that is us, to be a part of the solution to these many problems. Issues of gender, race, politics, sexuality and more. Understand that justice should be everyone’s concern, and that each one of us should use whichever kind of power we might have (social, economic, political) to contribute to positive change.
My prayer for us as a community, is that we would re-evaluate power as an obligation and duty to others – that the wall which divide may come tumbling down. That we may be reminded of our own idealism of our youth, in wanting to make the world fairer and better for all people and all communities.
Blessings in Christ.
