LEAD Seminars are free, accessible seminars designed for church lay people and pastors, which highlight topics and issues that are important and relevant in our world today. Anyone can join NTC's LEAD seminars in person (in Brisbane, Australia) or via videoconference from anywhere in the world here: https://zoom.us/j/9764150004
Previous seminar recordings can be found on this page.
Supper will be provided after the seminar.
This seminar is credited as lifelong learning hours for Church of the Nazarene elders, deacons and licensed ministers. A code will be provided at the seminar for eligible clergy to report to their district and regional leaders.
DEATH, ANXIETY, SUICIDE AND THE CHURCH
Suicide is still a leading cause of death in Australia. Euthanasia was legalised in Victoria in the June this year. Abortion laws have been introduced in Queensland and are before the parliament in New South Wales. These trends might lead one to assume that modern Australians are comfortable with death. Yet, psychologists can document a number of unhelpful behaviours provoked by mortality salience or death anxiety. In this time of discussion and reflection these competing trends will be examined and compared to see the potential role for the church in ministering to the "after-life" needs of the post-modern world. It will be argued that now is not the time for the church to de-emphasise its story of salvation for the next world as well as this one.
Presenter Biography: Catherine Philpot works for the Salvation Army as a church leader in the Centenary and Logan regions. However, her background is as a social psychologist with a PhD and postdoctoral research fellowship both completed at the University of Queensland in 2007 and 2012. She has served on the Salvation Army's Theological Forum since 2014 and enjoys using all of these experiences in the service of bringing God's kingdom to earth. She and husband David have been married 21 years and have 3 boys Harrison, Samuel and Jacob.