Cross Road Forum Aussie Values
Hallett Cove Presents:
Geraldine Hawkes in Conversation
Date: Thursday, 28 May 2026
Time: 7.00 – 8.00 pm
Place: Hallett Cove Catholic Church, 1 Berrima Rd, Sheidow Park
Cross Road Forum Aussie Values
Do we know what Aussie values are?
Is the national conversation really helping us define them?
Join us to explore what this might mean with our two speakers:
Professor Ian Goodwin Smith, Flinders University Professor of Social Impact, Dean (Research) College of Law and Social Sciences, Business and Creative Arts.
Ian has worked extensively with communities and people who have been marginalised.
Mussa Nawroazi is a criminal defence solicitor, admitted to practice in 2024. His family arrived as refugees from Afghanistan in 2011.
He was awarded the SA Australia Day Commendation in 2023 for leadership in culture and languages and inspires young people from refugee backgrounds to pursue careers in law.
Book Club:
The Afternoon of Christianity: The courage to change
Tomas Halik
Welcome to the June 2026 Book Club session.
Our discussions this month will focus on Chapter 14 – The Faith of non-believers and a Window of Hope
Online: Monday 1 June, 2.00 – 3.30 ACST. Email Kevin.liston1@gmail.com for the link
In-person: Tuesday 9 June, 10.00-11.30am at the Teresa Moore Centre, Cabra, Cumberland Park.
Although we are now coming to the end of the book – only three chapters to go – newcomers are welcome to join us.
For information contact Kevin Liston
Email: kevin.liston1@gmail.com
Phone: 0411 197 829
Tomas Halick provides a poignant reflection on Christianity’s crisis of faith while offering a vision of the self-reflection, love, and growth necessary for the church to overcome and build a deeper and more mature faith.
Tomas Halik is a Czech Roman Catholic priest, philosopher, theologian, and scholar. He is a professor of sociology at Charles University in Prague, pastor of the academic parish of St. Saviour church in Prague, president of the Czech Christian Academy, and a winner of the Templeton prize. He is the author of many books, including, Touch The Wounds, From the Underground Church to Freedom, and I Want You To Be. His books have been published in twenty languages and received many awards, including the Foreword Review’s INDIES Book of the Year Awards in Philosophy and in Religion.
Building the Church of the Future
SACEC is a diverse group of Adelaide Catholics who share a love, care, concern and hope for our Church in the Archdiocese. We come together, under the heading SA Catholics for an Evolving Church to reflect on the world, the Church, the Gospel and the spiritual life of all Catholics.
Disrupter of Synagogues, Disturber of Consciences
Healer of the Broken, Liberator of Captives.
The Spirit Within:
Creating the one and only version of yourself that ever will be
It is my light not my darkness that frightens me.
My deepest fear is not that I am inadequate.
My deepest fear is that I am powerful beyond measure.
It is my light, not my darkness, that most frightens me.
I ask myself, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?
Actually, who am I not to be? I am a child of God.
My playing small does not serve the world.
There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around me.
I was born to make manifest the glory of God that is within me.
It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone.
And as I let my own light shine, I unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As I am liberated from my own fear, my presence automatically liberates others.
Marianne Williamson. Return To Love