Divine nature

Review by Belinda Clear

Album | Finding Faith | Andrew Tierney and Timothy Dunfield

This contemporary Christian album features songs written by Andrew Tierney of Human Nature fame and Timothy Dunfield, a worship pastor from Canada.

It is an album that will appeal to those familiar with contemporary Christian music and those who are ...

Korean barriers finally falling

SILVIA YANG

Last October, when the situation on the Korean Peninsula was on a knife’s edge, I had an opportunity to visit Germany.

I had wanted to explore this unified country for 28 years and to learn some meaningful lessons from the Berlin Wall.

The concrete barrier that physically separated the ideologically divided city of Berlin for almost ...

Bank tellers

A strategy of engaging with the big banks over the misconduct revealed by the royal commission has seen two financial giants respond quickly and seriously to ethical investor concerns.

In the wake of royal commission revelations, UCA Funds Management wrote letters expressing its concerns as shareholders to the CEOs of the four big banks, Thursday’s Ethical Consulting Group (ECG) ...

UCA people recognised with Queen’s Birthday honours

Former Uniting AgeWell chair Janet Wood has been honoured with a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in this year’s Queen’s Birthday honours list.

Ms Wood, a current member of Uniting AgeWell’s Community Advisory Committee, was recognised for significant services to aged welfare, human rights and health advocacy.

She became the inaugural chair of Uniting AgeWell (then Uniting ...

Uniting Church hails treaty progress

The Uniting Church has welcomed Victoria’s landmark step towards negotiating a treaty with the First Peoples and urged that the process continue.

On Thursday the Advancing the Treaty Process with Aboriginal Victorians Bill 2018 passed the Lower House of state parliament but still needs to pass the Upper House to become law.

It is the first time an ...

UCA opts in to national redress scheme

The President of the Uniting Church in Australia Stuart McMillan has today announced that the Uniting Church will opt in to the Federal Government’s National Redress Scheme for people who have experienced institutional child sexual abuse.

“We acknowledge the impact of child sexual abuse in the lives of those who have been abused in our institutions or those ...