Wesley College student Tim Bliss is knee deep in economics, biology, maths and chemistry books. But that hasn’t stopped the 18-year-old and a group of friends from establishing a fundraising triathlon event, Tri-for-Change, to raise money for Share and their vital agency work.
“My grandfather, George Gilbertson, was a big supporter of Share,” Tim said. “After he passed away ...
For the past eight years, Joan Waters has thought, read, wept and prayed about dementia.
The insidious disease has taken hostage of her husband of 65 years, Reynolds, a retired Uniting Church minister.
Ms Waters has watched as her vibrant, caring and loving partner slowly lost his memory, his understanding and his reasoning. In their place are ...
Last month 60 Cornish College students and 11 staff swapped their warm beds for cardboard boxes when they took part in the Winter Sleep Out. The event has already raised $12,000, with more money set to come in. The funds will be used to buy Backpack Beds for homeless people through the charity Swags for Homeless.
What does a group of middle aged and older people and a gang of grade 6 students have in common? At Darebin, it’s a love of their iPads.
Students from Preston West Primary School have been trekking up the road to Darebin North West Uniting Church to help some older residents to learn how to use their iPads.
Dick Carter retired as the chair of UCA Funds Management last month after reaching the statutory board membership maximum of 10 years.
During that time he guided Funds Management through the turbulent 2008-2009 Global Financial Crisis – when the Australian Stock Exchange fell 54 per cent in 16 months – to a healthy position, with funds under management currently close ...
Multinational tax dodging is an increasingly prominent issue on the national and global agenda. A survey conducted by accounting firm BDO earlier this year found that multinational tax avoidance was the number one tax concern for Australians.
The federal government has taken steps in recent months to tackle multinational tax dodging. In April, assistant treasurer Kelly O’Dwyer expressed a ...
Synod Snaps brings you images from throughout the Church and beyond.
Belmont Uniting Church members made 340 hand-crafted items, including 85 woollen blankets, 40 quilts, 72 beanies and 32 scarves. The items will be distributed via UnitingCare Geelong, Nangatta, Cottage by the Sea, and Geelong Hospital. Ros Buckwell, Marilyn Funston, Jill Jeffers and Heather McCann with part of the display ...
Political correctness is defined by Wikipedia as follows: “commonly abbreviated to PC, is a term which, in modern usage, is used to describe language, policies, or measures which are intended not to offend or disadvantage any particular group of people in society. In the media, the term is generally used as a pejorative, implying that these ...
Book | Servants and Leaders | Graham Downie
Review by ALAN RAY
A senior federal minister was furious about a front page photograph on The Canberra Times newspaper where Graham Downie was the religion reporter. “Haven’t you seen the photo; are you blind?”, demanded the politician. “Yes I am,” replied the author of Servants and Leaders – Eminent Christians in their own ...
One of the proposals passed at the 2016 Synod meeting expressed concern about governments no longer adequately funding services which protect the vulnerable in our community.
Put forward by the synod’s Justice and International Mission (JIM) Unit, the Synod meeting heard that if Australia collected close to what other OECD governments collect in revenue, billions of dollars would be ...
One of the things I value about the Synod’s Vision and Mission Principles is that they tell us who we are, and call us to more truly become who we are, for the sake of serving the reign of God.
At the recent Synod meeting there were many moments where I saw the already and the still-becoming nature of the ...
Film | My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 | PG
Reviewed by BOB FASER
I never thought a sequel could ever be better than the original film. It’s particularly hard for a sequel to exceed the original when the first film set as high a bar as My Big Fat Greek Wedding, but I believe My Big Fat Greek Wedding ...
