Safety lesson is one we need to learn

Over the last few weeks I have spent considerable time thinking about safety, security and what it means for us to become a safer church. Some of this thinking has arisen from meeting with survivors of abuse.

Little green thumbs

Scots Early Learning Centre attendee Lewis helps out as part of National Tree Day The youngsters at Scots Early Learning Centre in Hobart put their green thumbs to the test as part of National Tree Day and Schools Tree D

Reason to believe

Review by NICK MATTISKE BOOK | GOD IS NO THING: COHERENT CHRISTIANITY | RUPERT SHORTT There is a strain of English Christianity that sees faith as entirely reasonable and sensible, like packing an umbrella when the weath

Time to love

NICKIE GYOMBER Ok, so we’re born, live, and then we die. “There is a time for everything under the sun.” But I’m not sure that it always feels like that.

Please disturb

Review by Bob Faser BOOK | DISTURBING MUCH, DISTURBING MANY: THEOLOGY PROVOKED BY THE BASIS OF UNION | GEOFF THOMPSON Since 1977, there have been numerous studies of the Basis of Union of the Uniting Church in Australia.

What prayer brings to the table

By Katharine Massam Prayer is… The 1656 painting Praying Always by the Dutch painter Nicholas Maes is an icon of the Reformation.

Historic Fiji partnership

Stuart McMillan and Tevita Banivanua Uniting Church President Stuart McMillan has signed a historic partnership agreement with the Methodist Church in Fiji at their annual conference in Suva, Fiji.

Back to basis

Review by Rev Dr Craig Thompson BOOK | MANIFESTO FOR RENEWAL | ANDREW DUTNEY A good history is informative, sobering and inspiring.

Church response to Nauru Files

The Uniting Church has demanded the immediate closure of Australia’s offshore detention centres following the publication of leaked documents from the Nauru facility.