THURSDAY 6 OCTOBER 7:00PM
There are various ways and means of being homeless or understanding homelessness. Homelessness can be forced upon us by circumstance, understood as a violence inflicted by nature or human intervention. We can also play a significant part in our own homelessness or emotional sense of homelessness. Various forms of homelessness, physical, philosophical and spiritual, can be equally destabilising. A home brings security, sanctuary, belonging and identity – essentials for our peace. A home is essential in the discovery of who we are.
In this theological reflection, Kasy explored practical (immanent or historical) and spiritual (transcendent) notions of homelessness in discerning that a home is a human right as well as a heavenly promise. Ultimately, from a theological perspective, homelessness is an eschatological question of salvation, or human flourishing, ‘on earth as it is in heaven’, understood as two dimensional: in human time and on God’s time.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Kasy Chambers
Kasy Chambers is Executive Director of Anglicare’s national body overseeing 35 agencies with almost 30,000 staff with over half a million clients.
A highly capable CEO, Kasy has years of experience in social welfare and housing policy.
Forum Chair: Mr Clive Rodger, Chair, Christians for an Ethical Society
Report on the forum
available here
VIDEO RECORDINGS OF THE FORUM
(total size 341MB)
homelessness-0.mp4
homelessness-1.mp4
homelessness-2.mp4
homelessness-3.mp4
