Hand-made help
Risk assessment officer Kelly Smith test drives the prisoner-designed swag Some homeless Tasmanians have slept warmer and drier this winter thanks to an innovative joint project between UnitingCare Tasmania and female pr
Images of faith
book l Inklings – Doubt, Faith and Everyday Life – Australian poets, writers and artists at work, edited by Mac Nicoll, 2014 Review by James Tulip Former professor of English at Sydney University In my local Uniting Ch
John Corben Lavender (Jock) 6 July 1919 – 23 June 2014
Jock (pictured) was born in Ivanhoe, but spent most of his youth in Northcote where his father was a bank manager, and where he attended primary school, high school and the Methodist church in High Street.
Going for green
A scene from Chasing Ice A community film night recently raised $10,000, enabling Queenscliff to become the latest Uniting Church to install solar panels.
STRYDA for RYDA
Robert de Castella claims that humans have evolved to run marathons. He believes that of all God’s creatures, we are the only ones with the genetic disposition to maintain a constant run over 42.2 kilometres.
Whishing Alison well
After six years as the Presbytery Minister-Leadership Development in Tasmania Rev Alison Whish (pictured) is moving to South Australia.
Conference unites women
In September, 500 women from all around Australia gathered for a weekend in Sydney to “Share the Deeper Sto
Love and Power
Every day there is a horrifying roll call of destruction and threat in the news. We risk being backed into a defensive corner by loud shouts of ‘Danger!’, or overwhelmed and numbed by images of suffering.
Taking care in business
As the voices in the public square become more strident, our media reflects growing hate and intolerance and our parliamentary Question Time is polarising and self-serving.
Christians from the rubble in Gaza and the West Bank
Co-convenor of the Parliamentary Friends of Palestine, Maria Vamvakinou with speaker Arda Arghazharian At the memorial service for 70-year-old Jalila Ayyad, killed when an Israeli missile hit her home in Gaza, Archbishop