Podcast appearances and mentions of ray minniecon

Pastor Ray Minniecon (pictured) spoke on the opening day of the recent Better Futures Australian Forum in Canberra pleading with Australia's decision makers to listen to and work with the country's indigenous people. The powerful address by Pastor Minnniecon helped set the agenda for the two-day forum that came across as optimistic and collaborative, all embedded in a muted excitement arising from the May 21 Federal Election that saw a Labor Government replace a near decade-old Liberal/National Party coalition. Listen closely to Pastor Minniecon and you will be moved to believe that the first nations people have a serious contribution to make in helping Australians avoid the worst of climate change. Enjoy "Music for a Warming World". --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/robert-mclean/message

Marina Cantacuzino talks to Pastor Ray Minniecon about the history of the Stolen Generations and the continuing pain of Aboriginals in Australia. Ray describes his own childhood on the reserves, his research into the dehumanisation of Aboriginals, and how he continues to help his people share their story, as well come to terms with acts of racism in his own life.

On today's episode we're discussing the topic of Climate Justice in the wake of the recent COP26 conference in Glasgow, Scotland on October 31 through November 13 of 2021 (the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties). We are joined by three guests from Australia: Pastor Ray Minniecon, Jarrod McKenna, and Dr. Byron Smith. Over the course of our conversation we talk about the severity of the problem of climate change and how it impacts indigenous communities, and the theological necessity to engage ourselves with the work of climate justice as an embodied expression of hope in the resurrection. Pastor Ray Minniecon is an Australian indigenous leader and a descendant of the Kabi Kabi nation, the Gureng Gureng nation of South-East Queensland, and also the South Sea Islander people with deep connections to the people of Ambrym Island. He holds many roles, including as executive member of the Indigenous People's Organization, Director of Bunji Consultancies, and Honorary Indigenous Minister for Scarred Tree Indigenous Ministries, St. John's Anglican Church, Glebe. Pastor Ray also recently attended COP26. Jarrod McKenna is the co-host of the Inverse Podcast, the Founder of First Home Project for refugees, was the founding CEO of Common Grace (a Christian advocacy organisation), an initiator of LoveMakesAWay.org.au (a movement for refugees which has become the largest faith based civil disobedience movement in Australia's history), and was World Vision Australia's National Advisor for Faith and Activism and a Nonviolent Social Change Educator for World Vision in the Middle East and Eastern Europe. Dr. Byron Smith is an ecological ethicist and Christian minister. His PhD in theological ethics from the University of Edinburgh focused on emotional responses to climate change in the context of Christian identity. His time is split between pastoral ministry in the Anglican church in Sydney, and a speaking/writing ministry helping churches join the dots between ecological justice and faith. Team members on the episode from The Two Cities include: Dr. John Anthony Dunne and Stephanie Kate Judd.

Carrying on from the first episode, Charlene Delos Santos and Craig Petty hear perspectives on marginalisation with Dave Andrews and Uncle Ray Minniecon helping us to explore the topic of marginalisation and continue to be challenged in the conversation about what it takes to put Jesus in the centre. We want to embody a lifestyle of justice. SURRENDER partners with dozens of organisations and hundreds of initiatives, we invite you to find them and take action at surrender.org.au

Charlene and Craig hear perspectives on marginalisation from Uncle Ray Minniecon and Dave Andrews. What does it take to place Jesus in the centre? SURRENDER partners with dozens of organisations and hundreds of initiatives. Find them and take action at surrender.org.au Pastor Ray Minniecon Pastor Ray Minniecon is a descendant of the Kabi Kabi nation and the Gurang Gurang nation of South-East Queensland. Pastor Ray is also a descendant of the South Sea Islander people with deep and abiding connections to the people of Ambrym Island. Pastor Ray ministers at St John's Church in Sydney, is a resource worker for the Uniting Aboriginal and Islander Christian Congress, honorary pastor at St. John's Scarred Tree Ministry in Glebe and Director of Bunji Consultancies. He was a former National Director of World Vision Australia's Indigenous programs. Pastor Ray has a BA in Theology from Murdoch University and assisted in the establishment of Aboriginal studies and employment programs at that university. Dave Andrews Dave Andrews, his wife Ange, and their family, have lived and worked in intentional communities with marginalised groups of people in Australia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Nepal for more than forty years. He now lives in a large joint household with his wife, children, grandchildren and others in an inner city community in Brisbane. Dave is particularly interested in radical spirituality, incarnational community and the dynamics of personal and social transformation.

On this episode of Democracy Sausage, guest host Virginia Marshall takes over the tongs, fires up the barbie, and speaks to community pastor and advocate Ray Minniecon.How can Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander conceptions of truth-telling inform global reconciliation efforts? And why haven't Australian governments and society fully acknowledged the history and the damage of the frontier wars in the country? On this Democracy Sausage, guest host Dr Virginia Marshall speaks with Pastor Ray Minniecon, who reflects on life under Queensland's Aboriginal Protection Act, recognising the sacrifices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander servicemen and women, and what it means to belong to Country.Ray Minniecon is a community Pastor at St John's Anglican Church, Glebe and Director of Bunji Consultancies, which supports Aboriginal leadership and business initiatives.Virginia Marshall is the Inaugural Indigenous Postdoctoral Fellow with The Australian National University's School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) and the Fenner School of Environment and Society. She is a Wiradjuri Nyemba woman from New South Wales.Democracy Sausage with Mark Kenny is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. We'd love to hear your feedback for this podcast series! Send in your questions, comments, or suggestions for future episodes to podcast@policyforum.net. You can also Tweet us @APPSPolicyForum or join us on the Facebook group.This podcast is produced in partnership with The Australian National University. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

What happens when religious language reckons with racial injustice.   “The original sin of this country still stains our nation today,” said Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden in the wake of the police killing, in May, of George Floyd. The phrase “America’s original sin is slavery” is so widely used in the United States that it is practically cliché. But what does it actually mean? “When you call something sinful, you’re speaking to a transcendent moral norm. As a person of faith, I think that what America does isn’t simply wrong to other human beings. It offends God himself,” says Esau McCaulley, an Assistant Professor of New Testament at Wheaton College in Illinois, and the author of the forthcoming Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope. In this episode of Life & Faith, we explore the crossover between the metaphor of ‘original sin’ in discussions of racial injustice and the Jewish and Christian idea of human brokenness found right at the beginning of the Bible. Not only does the metaphor invoke collective wrongdoing, but questions of justice and restitution. We also invite Ray Minniecon, a descendant of the Karbi Karbi and Gurang Gurang peoples, an Aboriginal pastor and activist, to examine Australia’s complicity in a similar, but different, ‘original sin’: the dispossession of the indigenous people of Australia. “We’ve been living these lies for far too long,” Ray said, citing the declaration, not overturned until 1992 with the Mabo Decision, that Australia was terra nullius or ‘empty land’. “Until those lies are addressed, which are the sins of the nation, then how on earth can we start to work out a better future?” — Read Esau McCaulley’s New York Times opinion piece ‘What the Bible has to Say About Black Anger’ Buy Esau McCaulley’s forthcoming book Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope Follow Esau McCaulley on Twitter Listen to Ray Minniecon discuss self-determination and sacrifice on Speaking Out at the ABC

With the Easter period upon us, Aboriginal Pastor Uncle Ray Minnicon has some timely thoughts on identity, Christianity and self-determination.

With the Easter period upon us, Aboriginal Pastor Uncle Ray Minnicon has some timely thoughts on identity, Christianity and self-determination.

After developing his navigational skills on the West Coast of "Newfoundland," James Cook arrived on the east coast of Australia in 1770. The 250th anniversary of that date gives special significance to this year's Invasion Day, the term Indigenous people give the government-recognized 'Australia Day'—the country's national holiday. But it's a day that, for many Indigenous Australians, marks the beginning of the violence and oppression they continue to face today. Our guest this week is pastor and Indigenous rights activist Ray Minniecon, speaking with us from Australia.

Over two years ago, 250 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leaders from all around Australia met at Uluru. At the base of the gigantic rock, they agreed to enshrine a first nations voice into the constitution — giving birth to The Statement from the Heart. This week, James Carleton and the God Forbid panel discuss where we’re at on this journey, where we’re headed and how far we have left to go.

Over two years ago, 250 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leaders from all around Australia met at Uluru. At the base of the gigantic rock, they agreed to enshrine a first nations voice into the constitution — giving birth to The Statement from the Heart. This week, James Carleton and the God Forbid panel discuss where we’re at on this journey, where we’re headed and how far we have left to go.

This week Jonzy yarns with the inspiring Ray Minniecon, a pastor and Indigenous leader, who has powerful advice for overcoming hard times. Plus, Jonzy looks back on his own childhood, at the way people treated him for his heritage.

Ray Minniecon shares what it means to be authentically indigenous and authentically Christian. He challenges the Australian and global church to listen to what Jesus is saying to us through Indigenous faith and Christianity. The GlobalChurch Project podcast episode 68.Pastor Ray Minniecon is a descendant of the Kabi Kabi nation and the Gurang Gurang nation of South-East Queensland. Ray is also a descendant of the South Sea Islander people with connections to the people of Ambrym Island. He is the Chairperson of the Sydney Anglican Indigenous People’s Committee and the National Secretary of the Aboriginal Evangelical Fellowship.Ray is a Director of Bunji Consultancies, which supports Aboriginal leadership and business initiatives with a number of corporate clients and is a consultant on the development of programs and projects for the remaining men of Kinchela Boys Home (KBH) with the University of New South Wales. At Murdoch University, WA, Ray earned a BA in Theology and helped establish the Aboriginal Education Unit where he worked as its co-ordinator. Ray has worked for World Vision Australia’s Indigenous programs for twelve years and was its National Director for six of those years. Ray’s most recent career engagement was with the Anglican Diocese of Sydney as a Pastor and Director of Crossroads Aboriginal Ministries.Ray has spoken about indigenous issues at local, national and international forums. In 1995 he made an intervention at the UN in Geneva on behalf of Indigenous Peoples at the first hearing of the Draft Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. In 2001, he spoke in Italy at a Global Forum on Ethics and Economics, where he also had a private audience with the Pope.

The story of Christianity and Aboriginal culture in Australia, is one of tragedy, loss and deep sorrow. “It was the church's decree that they pillage our land and conquer us,” Larissa Minniecon says. “So through Christianity, or churches - we have lost everything.” Larissa is a Kabi Kabi woman and a Torres Strait Islander. She is also a Christian woman. In fact, her last name may sound familiar - Ray Minniecon, is her father and a prominent Aboriginal Christian leader. “We deeply believe in the message, we deeply believe in Jesus, and I think because of that we've survived all the atrocities that have been thrown to us,” she says. “Being a Christian helps us survive and give grace to a lot of people, and also hope.” In this episode of Life & Faith, we consider these stories of hope and reconciliation that are found hidden within the darker narrative that charts the relationship between the church and Aboriginal people. You'll hear from Larissa Minniecon, who heads up Common Grace's Aboriginal Justice team, and her colleagues, TanyaRiches and Shane Fenwick. Grant Paulson, an Aboriginal man, a son of a Baptist minister and a trained clergyman himself, also joins us with a candid interview about his thoughts on reconciliation. He's also recorded a song for us so listen out for it at the end of the episode. --- SUBSCRIBEto our podcast: http://bit.ly/lifeandfaithpodcast