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. 

Reflections from Rev Elizabeth Raine

Consumed by consumerism

July 1, 2022

Isaiah 55:1-13 Isaiah has been described by Old Testament scholars as the pre-eminent poet of the Old Testament. Here we see these skills on display, as Isaiah describes the generous offer that God is making to the people. No money? No worries, you can still come and eat and get…

On Pharisees, foxes, and failings

July 1, 2022

MISHLEI SHU’ALIM (“Fox Fables”) This work was written by R. *Berechiah b. Natronai ha-Nakdan who lived during the creative period of Jewish fable literature (end of the 12th and beginning of the 13th century), and was printed in Mantua in 1557. The use of the name Mishlei Shu’alim, identical with…

A glimpse of the divine

July 1, 2022

The story of the transfiguration is a story about a vision and a dream. It is a story where the power of the divine broke into the ordinary world to give hope and inspiration. The disciples were in need of such inspiration. Just before this story, Jesus had revealed to…

Levelling the playing field

July 1, 2022

Luke’s beatitudes are less well-known, and less often quoted than Matthew’s (Matthew 5:1-12). Reading the two together, it is not difficult to see why. The statements that Luke assigns to Jesus in his ’Sermon on the Plain’ are briefer, starker and more politically subversive than those from Matthew’s ‘Sermon on…

Push out into deep water

July 1, 2022

The readings this week share a common theme, a theme centred around whom God calls, and whom God chooses to be God’s followers and disciples in the world. In addition, the readings also particularly highlight the weakness, sinfulness or unworthiness of those who are chosen. Isaiah, when faced with God,…

Peace and Goodwill

February 15, 2022

The Book of Ruth Chapters 1 & 2 The book of Ruth stands as an island of peace and goodwill in the middle of a sea of wars, treachery, unfaithfulness and violence, as characterised by the preceeding book of Judges, and the following books of Kings and Samuel which follow.