Homelessness on the rise
Friday Forum Your views on the news Regular visitors to the Melbourne CBD would have noticed that the homelessness protest at City Square has ended.
Uniting Church launches Tasmanian flood appeal
The Presbytery of Tasmania has donated $20,000 to launch a Synod of Victoria and Tasmania Share Tasmania Flood Crisis Appeal.
June Crosslight now available
Syrian children in a refugee camp in Jordan collect much-needed food packs distributed by Act for peace. Many of the packs were funded thanks to the generous support of Uniting Church Members in Victoria.
Vision with intent
DAVID SOUTHWELL VISION TESTING Throughout the past three years, the Uniting Church in Victoria and Tasmania has asked itself some big questions about where it is going. Now, it has proposed some responses.
New Moderator installed for VicTas Synod
By Nigel Tapp It may have been a dreary, cold and wet night in Melbourne, but that did not deter the faithful from gathering to warmly embrace the Synod of Victoria and Tasmania’s new Moderator, Rev Sharon Hollis, at he
Trolling the trolls
Friday Forum Your views on the news noun: troll; plural noun: trolls (in folklore) an ugly cave-dwelling creature depicted as either a giant or a dwarf Verb : to fish with a hook and line that you pull through the water
Retired Uniting Church minister reunited with lost dog
Image: Darren Howe/Fairfax Syndication. A retired Uniting Church minister has been reunited with his beloved border collie after his car was stolen on Wednesday, with his dog still inside.
ACL’s marriage of prejudice and ignorance
WARREN TALBOT Election campaigns, even if they run for eight weeks, are a democratic delicacy. For a while there is some extended focus on matters of public policy.
UnitingCare and Bendigo Bank announce winter warmer drive
Lindy O’Neill (left) at Bendigo Bank Devonport branch manager Erin Smith prepare for the Winter Warmer Drive.
Do the rich choose not to enter the kingdom of heaven?
Friday Forum Your views on the news In a recent column in The Guardian, Giles Fraser suggests reports in the early part of last century forecasting the death of religion were premature.
Journey towards reconciliation
Sorry Day, held on 26 May every year, acknowledges the pain and trauma suffered by First Peoples. The Uniting Church recognises the need to walk together with First Peoples on the journey towards reconciliation.
Calls to halve homelessness by 2025
On any given night, more than 105,000 Australians are homeless. This includes at least 44,000 children and young people under the age of 25.