Search on for next moderator
Wanted: Nominations for moderator-elect. Attributes: Practically perfect in every way (to quote Mary Poppins). Well, OK, no one is perfect.
Candidates’ Tasmanian retreat
Candidates at Pilgrim Theological College and faculty staff spent five days in Tasmania last month experiencing ministry and the life of the Church in the island state.
Leading the way
REVIEW BY MARGARET REESON BOOK | OUR PRINCIPLE OF SEX EQUALITY: THE ORDINATION OF WOMEN IN THE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH IN AUSTRALIA 1927-1977 | JULIA PITMAN FORTY years after the inauguration of Uniting Church in Australia
Sprent Miles ahead in lay preaching
Rev Grahame Abrahams (left) presents Keeton Miles with his service certificate When it comes to lay preachers, Sprent Shalom Uniting Church is Miles ahead of all others.
Making compassion real
ALEXANDER BAKER Straight off the red-eye flight from Manila to Nairobi, my colleague Alexandra and I were greeted by possibly the biggest smile in Africa, and not just because it stood seven-foot-high off the ground.
Art with heart
Art lovers, architecture enthusiasts and aspiring artists will all find inspiration at this year’s Uniting AgeWell Strathdon Community Art Exhibition.
Talking about sex
REVIEW BY IAN TOZER BOOK | TWO VIEWS ON HOMOSEXUALITY, THE BIBLE AND THE CHURCH | EDITED BY PRESTON SPRINKLE Homosexuality commonly draws out strident views.
The write way to tell UCA stories
The Uniting Church in Australia turns 40 this year. So it is perhaps not surprising that throughout the synod, many budding historians are unearthing the story of their own congregations and church communities.
March synod snaps
Wendouree Uniting Church celebrated Australia Day with a breakfast and service. Ron Hutchinson is pictured here cooking snags for the visitors. Wendouree senior citizens enjoy breakfast.
Pioneer leader in a time of great change
NIGEL TAPP The Uniting Church achieved two significant goals in the mid-’90s. One was the adoption of consensus decision-making as the official model for meeting procedures.
Nurturing faith
For the past seven years, the Uniting Church’s Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) program has provided pastoral training to minsters, lay people and students.
Young people the agents of change
NIGEL TAPP Sometimes it is easy to forget that when it comes to putting meat on the bones of faith-filled missional activity, children can be just as effective, and committed, as their elders.