Rev Elizabeth Raine

Elizabeth is minister at Tuggeranong Uniting, beginning her ministry here in December 2018. 

Over the years, she has had a number of diverse and interesting placements, such as a school chaplaincy, a tenancy worker with UnitingCare, a congregational minister, a lecturer at UTC, a Presbytery minister, and as an Intentional Interim minister. 

More from Rev Elizabeth Raine

Come and see – stay awhile

January 19, 2020

A Life-Changing Experience of the Divine John 1:29-42 I remember as a child reading one of those Readers’ Digest short and funny anecdotes about a family that was on holidays in America. Claiming to be a true story, the writer was at the Grand Canyon marvelling at its beauty and…

Pastoral note on the bushfire crisis

January 14, 2020

No words can do justice to the pain and immense loss people and wildlife are experiencing in this terrifying national bushfire crisis. I want to acknowledge the pain for everyone who has been affected. The current bushfires, many of which have been burning for weeks, are a result of…

Immerse yourself in the Divine

January 12, 2020

The words of today’s readings declare the mystery of God, and the creating and saving power of God. Both Jesus’ baptism and the beginning of creation are depicted in poetic and powerful images, with chaotic water, the splitting of the heavens, and a spirit who hurls Jesus out into the…

Mary and the Magnificat

December 15, 2019

If I was to ask you what words come to mind when we think of Mary, the mother of Jesus, I wonder what you might say. The words most Christians use when asked to describe Mary are words like: humble, obedient, meek, mild, virgin. Mary is frequently depicted as a…

Advent Hope

December 8, 2019

Isaiah 11: 1-10 The lion shall lie down with the lamb, but the lamb won’t get much sleep! That was the late Douglas Templeton’s take on this passage and others like it: beautiful, poetic visions of a dream world that never have been, and never will be, realised in the…

In the midst of chaos

November 17, 2019

Luke 21 and Isaiah 65 The OT and the gospel reading for this week is of the genre we name as apocalyptic. Apocalyptic literature is generally full of wars and insurrections, fighting and fear, supernatural portents from heaven, predictions of the end of the world followed by new creations of…