# Roundup: Healing, close the gap, Braidwood 150, green pilgrimage network, gender inequity, same-sex unions, evangelical belief

> A series of Biblical meditations on gender, reproductive and sexual health is being launched by the World Council of Churches, inviting congregations and individual Christians to make November a month of reflection on health and healing.

3 November 2011 · News

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## [A month of health and healing in November](https://www.oikoumene.org/en/news/news-management/eng/a/article/1634/a-month-of-health-and-hea.html)

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A series of Biblical meditations on gender, reproductive and sexual health is being launched by the World Council of Churches, inviting congregations and individual Christians to make November a month of reflection on health and healing.

## [Do you want to help ‘Close the Gap’ on Indigenous health?](https://www.ccdeu.org.au/cr_darc/support_cr_darc.php)

Join the campaign to save the Cape Residential Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Centre to help ensure a brighter future for all residents of the Cape and Gulf regions.

## [Uniting Church celebrates 150 years](https://www.braidwoodtimes.com.au/news/local/news/business/uniting-church-celebrates-150-years/2344439.aspx)

Over the weekend of 29 and 30 October 2011 the Braidwood Uniting Church celebrated one hundred and fifty years of worship in the Church Building.

## [Green Pilgrimage Network launches with joy, hope, faith and practical plans](https://www.arcworld.org/news.asp?pageID=493)

A ban on cars on pilgrimage routes; solar panels for cathedral roofs; provision of fresh clean, water for pilgrims, and the planting of thousands of trees around sacred sites – these are just some of the initiatives which the founder members of the Green Pilgrimage Network pledged to implement.

## [Challenging gender inequity in pursuit of women’s health](https://www.oikoumene.org/en/news/news-management/eng/a/article/1634/challenging-gender-inequi.html)

The Bible is filled with resources to challenge gender inequity and to show the ways in which gender inequity leads to illness and death.

## [Church of England vetoes services of blessing for same-sex couples](https://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/nov/02/church-vetoes-blessing-same-sex)

Places of worship can host civil partnership ceremonies from next month, but Anglican clergy will not be signing up.

## [Why evangelicals believe weird things](https://www.scienceandreligiontoday.com/2011/11/01/why-evangelicals-believe-weird-things/)

Secular America often laments the impact of evangelicals in politics, thinking their anti-intellectualism is inherent in evangelical Christianity. But as the community’s scholars demonstrate, it doesn’t have to be this way.