Growth in dementia needs cannot be ignored

Image courtesy of homecaregiverstore.com on Flickr UnitingCare Australia has voiced concern over the recent  abolition of the Dementia and Severe Behaviour Supplement.

Tribute to a friend

Rev Ojitha Goonetilleke More than 200 people attended a farewell lunch for Rev Ojitha Goonetilleke (pictured), who retired from full-time ministry at the end of April.

The evil of ‘othering’

                  It’s part of human nature to secure identity by rivalry, building barriers, erecting implacable oppositions of ‘us’ and ‘them’.

News of the Royal Commission

Stuffed bear made by the Pentridge toy makers prison The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Abuse will deliver an interim report towards the end of this month.

Footy pride

Jennie Gordon (centre) delivered a reflection before the Gay Pride match in Yarra Glen last month.

Faith in a pluralist society

Miroslav Volf By Penny Mulvey Imagine a world in the not-so-distant future where Christians and Muslims and people of other faiths and no faith work together, holding to their own distinct perspective, but listening and

Winter is coming

                                Winter has well and truly arrived in the southern states of Australia.

KUCA thanks

Margaret Hammon was recently recognised for 30 years of dedication to the KUCA (Kids of the Uniting Church in Australia) club.

The presence of the past

Moderator Dan Wootton standing in front of the giant kauri tree in the Waipoua Forest of the Northland Region. “I have a lofty tree upon one of my estates at New South Wales. It stands upon the summit of a hill.

Marketing Hot Air

The appearance this morning in Melbourne of a hot-air balloon resembling the statue of Christ the Redeemer from Rio de Janeiro, bearing the advertorial legend of Sportsbet, has been criticised for causing offence to the