In the space of just 15 years, Messy Church has become a worldwide phenomenon, something that was plain to see at a recent international conference in the UK.
Over 200 people from as far afield as the US, Canada, Europe, New Zealand and Australia attended the Messy Church International Conference at the southeast English village of Hoddesdon, including five from ...
If there is something Julie Perrin would like us to take away from her latest book it is that lessons in grace can happen in the most unexpected places and at the unlikeliest times.
This can even include a highly fraught taxi ride to the hospital to see a hurt loved one.
The Uniting Church in Victoria and Tasmania is a mix of old and new, a survey sent to all congregations and faith communities in the Synod reveals.
While many of the 52 per cent of congregations that completed the 2017 Community Life Return reported an ageing membership, the survey also showed 50 new faith communities.
UnitingWorld’s Australian Partnerships Coordinator Alexandra Bingham has seen the impact of climate change first-hand.
Alexandra said that in the tiny Pacific country of Tuvalu salt has been pushed up from the seabeds so they can barely grow their own crops.
Due to increased ocean temperatures, fish are being pushed further out to sea making it increasingly difficult for fisherman to ...
Learning about the past can open new ways of thinking about the present, something Dr Meredith Lake can personally attest to.
The award-winning historian and Radio National presenter grew up memorising Bible verses and praying at her dinner table in a devout Anglican household in Sydney’s outer suburbs.
The Indigenous Hospitality House has launched its first appeal asking for help to provide low-cost accommodation for regional and rural Indigenous people visiting Melbourne for medical reasons or to support a family member in hospital.
The appeal, launched during Reconciliation Week, aims to fill a financial gap after a local hospital ended its annual $15,000 donation.
Narana Aboriginal Cultural Centre is preparing to welcome some of Australia’s top Indigenous surfers, but can also boast a title holder of its own.
On 30 May, the centre will hold an opening event for the eighth Australian Indigenous Surfing Titles, which are to be held over the following three days at Bells Beach.
The Uniting Church has strongly restated its stance on same-gender marriage in the wake of what UCA National President Dr Deidre Palmer called a “regrettable” and factually incorrect ABC story on purported divisions over the issue.
In a pastoral statement to the church on 26 May following the ABC story, Dr Palmer assured members who may have been disturbed by ...
Peace, love and unity were on the menu at an Iftar dinner held at Ivanhoe Uniting Church on 18 May.
The event, which was jointly staged by the Victorian Council of Churches and Islamic Council of Victoria, invited Christians and Muslims to share more than just a meal.
Barriers were broken and friendships were forged, with conversation and understanding flowing ...
In the wake of the horrific bomb attacks in Sri Lanka, Uniting Church Reverend Dev Anandarajan has called for people to come together and reject violence and disunity.
Mr Anandarajan, who is the Uniting Church Synod of Victoria and Tasmania’s Intercultural Leadership Development Coordinator, said the attack was “very un-Sri Lankan”.
UCA Moderator of Victoria and Tasmania Rev Sharon Hollis has made the following response to the Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka:
On the day when Christians around the world have gathered to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ I, like so many, am shocked and angry at the violence of the attack on Sri Lankan churches and hotels and ...
Uniting Church members were out in force across Victoria and Tasmania to support the Palm Sunday rallies against offshore detention of refugees and asylum seekers on Manus and Nauru islands.
In Melbourne, Moderator Sharon Hollis joined a couple of hundred other UCA members to march behind a prominent Synod banner following a rally held in front of the State ...
