The Lord is my shepherd

In an age and society where the Christian voice appears less well regarded, laughed at, likened to a bygone era of fantasy and superstition, how do we achieve cut-through to defend and advocate for the issues important t

Royal Commission researches child abuse

The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has commenced the year with much energy. The first public hearing into a Uniting Church institution was announced late last month.

Social justice update

The new Victorian Government has been willing to act on a number of social justice areas Uniting Church members have been actively involved with.

Tasmania hosts UAICC National Conference

Haileigh Childs (left), from Queensland, and Donna Champion, from South Australia, at the UAICC National Conference The week-long Uniting Aboriginal and Islander Christian Congress’ 2015 National Conference began at Poat

The Challenge of Change

For many, Christmas is a time of celebration, reflection on the year that has passed and anticipation of a new year ahead. For others, the season can intensify loss, loneliness and isolation.

Mockingjay – Unexpected messages

Film |   The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 That’s an ugly set of punctuation marks. Some years ago film reviewers liked to poke fun at movie titles so overlong they needed their own clauses.

Every cent counts

Nicholas with a giving box Seven-year-old Nicholas Pyle has been saving five cent pieces for an entire year to buy a special Christmas gift for a child he has never met.

From small things, big things grow

Chinese President Xi Jinping plants a tree with Scotch Oakburn students An exercise in persuasive writing led to a group of students from Launceston’s Scotch Oakburn College Junior School meeting one of the most powerful

Breaking the silos

Silos In 2015, the Uniting Church in Australia will celebrate the 30th anniversary of the 4th National Assembly declaration – “The Uniting Church is a multicultural Church”.

Singing Scottish songs in Sri Lanka

‘Now, no more talking… use your nose, and give your mind to it,’ said Rat to Mole … They moved on in silence for some little way, when suddenly the Rat was conscious, through his arm that was linked in Mole’s, of a faint