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
October letters
Church council members of Pomonal Uniting Church are struggling with the massive amounts of communications we receive via email, particularly from the synod office.
Hidden talents
Kathy Van Essen (right) keeps a close eye on the work of fellow member Sue Stubbs When Kathy Van Essen was invited to the weekly art and craft group at the Ulverstone Uniting Church, on Tasmania’s North-West Coast, she d
New theological college unveiled
The new face in theological education, the Pilgrim Theological College, has been launched at the current gathering of the Uniting Church in Australia’s Victoria and Tasmania Synod.
Frontier Services celebrates 102 years in the bush
Media Release – Friday, 26 September, marks the 102nd anniversary of Rev John Flynn being commissioned to head the Australian Inland Mission.
Synod gathering to debate a range of issues
The 11th meeting of the Uniting Church’s Synod of Victoria and Tasmania will be held at La Trobe University, in Bundoora, from September 19-24.
Free at last
Image courtesy of the UN Photo Library The Uniting Church in Australia joyfully welcomes the safe release of the 45 Fijian peacekeepers serving in the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) on the border of
Welcome the welcomer
For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who is not partial and takes no bribe, who executes justice for the orphan and the widow, and who loves the strangers, providing
Journey to Jerusalem
Left to right: David Cohan, Nasir Butrous, Fr John Dupuche, Di Hirsh, Rev Barbara Allen, Albert Isaacs, Kemal Brkic, Rufiath Yousuff, Rev Ian Smith, Sheikh Riad GalilSitting: Rabbi Adam Stein and Hyder Gulam Earlier this