Overcoming the bystander effect
Earlier this week, three Muslim women were verbally abused by two men on a packed Melbourne train. Jason Cias, a commuter on his way home from work, confronted the two men when they threatened to “smash” the women.
Share warmth this winter
For the past few days, people in the southern states have shivered their way to work. This foretaste of winter causes most of us to grumble.
National Sorry Day
On 26 May 1997, the ‘Bringing Them Home’ report on the Stolen Generation was tabled in the federal parliament.
Uniting Agewell raises money for Nepal
(From left to right) Sunny Nepal and Bikran Adhikari; Lauren Curnow, from Australia Red Cross; Rev John Clarke, director of mission, UA; Sita Gyawali, personal care worker UA Manor Lakes.
Poem – WALKING THE LABYRINTH WITH THE WHOLE CREATION
By Rev John Cranmer Here is a walking the Dunkeld Labyrinth with the whole Creation context by mountain sun sky trees a white-blueness — a multi-variant-greenness a red-tinged-brownness mirrored-together in gently
Poem – A SILENCE BEYOND THOUGHT
By Rev John Cranmer come find those silences between the words that minds speak to themselves as they tread sharp-edges of aloneness here release the mind from its frenetic-yabberings screamed-out in the darkness of it
Ireland Says Yes We Do
By Emmet O’Cuana An Australian Christian lobby group responded to the events of the weekend in Ireland with the following statement “the redefinition of marriage and family in Ireland this weekend is a wake-up call to A
Sharing the burden this winter
By Nigel Tapp Harrison UnitingCare faces the very real prospect of walking away from offering an emergency relief support service in Knox in the wake of a Federal Government grant funding cut which amounts to about $100
‘Out Into the Cold – Where to Now? ’
“Our concern centres on the fact that the apparent rehabilitation of Mr Chan and Mr Sukumaran was not taken into account. Rehabilitation is a fundamental aspect of successful prison systems.
Putting the ‘G’ into OMG
By Dan Wootton The other morning as I headed down the hill in the dark, I felt something silently whiz past my face. I walked on, and as the dim light marginally improved, it happened again.
Home is where the heart is
By Ben Grundy The plight of refugees and asylum seekers can be an exasperating issue for those who campaign for just and humane policies towards people displaced by war and persecution.
Serving Springvale
Nyuok G. By Ben Grundy Like most churches Springvale Uniting Church has longstanding ties with its local community.