Knickers for Nairobi
A Uniting Church congregation in a Victorian alpine town is changing the lives of girls in Kenya through an unconventional fundraising campaign.
Synod Snaps – July 2017
Every month, the Ocean Grove-Barwon Heads Uniting Church congregation holds an intergenerational worship service called ‘4R Thrive Together’.
Brunswick Uniting creates a community
NIGEL TAPP ONE of the biggest challenges many young people face is their first experience of leaving home and this can be even harder for those who have to relocate far afield to further their education.
Being 40 years young
Street march as part of NCYC 1957 in Adelaide NIGEL TAPP Ministering to children, young people, youth and families has been central to the mission of the Uniting Church in Australia.
Become a shooting star
Penny Mulvey learnt a thing or two about mobile phones on her latest trip to a rural presbytery.
The ABCs of Copyright
Is your church or organisation aware of its obligations in relation to copyright laws? Just because an image can be downloaded from the internet does not mean you can project it free of charge.
A glimpse into the despair of detention
HELEN STAGOLL When I visited a Melbourne asylum seeker detention centre recently, I was not allowed to take in a bunch of flowers for my friend’s birthday. No reason given except ‘it’s policy’.
Historic truth
Review by Suzanne Yanko Book | The embarrassed colonialist | Sean Dorney Sean Dorney is an Australian journalist who has probably been the most trusted voice on Papua New Guinea affairs since he arrived in Moresby as a
Family ministry
Rev Ronald Alister Blackwood 23 August 1919 – 12 June 2017 Ron Blackwood was born in Dimboola, Victoria on 23 August 1919.
Group has a thirst to support Lenten appeal
NIGEL TAPP PROCEEDS from the second CD produced by Hobart music group Thirsty Ground will aid the work of the synod’s Lenten Offering appeal.
Stranger than fiction
Review by Nick Mattiske Book | The Stranger in the Woods | Michael Finkel One day in the 1980s a young man fed up with the modern world abandons his car by the side of the road and disappears into the woods of the northe
Letters to the editor – July 2017
Responding to terror Hear, hear! to the views expressed by the editor in regard to using the awful terrorist attacks in Manchester as a means to vilify those seeking to escape bombings and war to find refuge in a safer p