Traveller’s tales

Book | People, Places and Planes: Presidential Field Notes and Reflections | Andrew Dutney Review by DAVID SOUTHWELL The alliterative title promises a blur of meetings, travel and activity, which is what you largely get

Bringing faith to life

MARGUERITE MARSHALL The Greensborough Living Faith Church celebrated a decade of outreach and adventure on Sunday 10 July.

Healthy belief

Book | The Art of Interfaith Spiritual Care: Integration of Spirituality in Health Care Regardless of Religion or Beliefs | Walter Blair Stratford Review by TONI EREBOR The pattern for this book is shaped on recognition

International bridges

In March last year, Denisse Sandoval from the synod’s Justice and International Mission (JIM) unit travelled to India to meet with NGOs tackling human trafficking and workers’ rights issues.

Something good

REV DEACON JEANNE BEALE (Chaplain – Aitken College) One cold morning last term, I arrived at my door keen to get out of the weather, when Elizabeth (a year 4 student) ran up to me and said “Rev, I have written a poem abo

Synod Snaps – August 2016

Synod Snaps brings you images from throughout the Church and beyond. Ballarat Central Uniting Church hosted a social justice-themed candidate’s forum in the lead-up to the federal election.

Hope in the Philippines

At the request of our partner church – the United Church of Christ in the Philippines – and in partnership with the Synod of South Australia, JILL RUZBACKY from the Justice and International Mission unit travelled to the

Bendigo hosts Global Chaplaincy Conference

More than 115 higher education chaplains met in Bendigo for the Global Chaplaincy Conference in July. The week-long conference is hosted every four years in different locations throughout the world.

FUNdraising for the Asylum Seeker Welcome Centre

Two Uniting Church congregations, Brunswick and Sophia Springs, joined forces on the 18 June (the eve of Refugee Week) to raise funds for the Lentara Asylum Seeker Welcome Centre (ASWC).

Digging for the truth

Movie | Goldstone | M Review by PENNY MULVEY There is something remarkably familiar about Ivan Sen’s latest cinematic masterpiece, Goldstone, and yet disturbingly strange.

How to be

Book | Being Christian: Baptism, Bible, Eucharist, Prayer | Dr Rowan Williams Review by CRAIG THOMPSON Rowan Williams’ Being Christian is a great introduction to the basics, and the not-so-basics, of Christian faith.