A multi-faith conference exploring the relationship between spirituality and disability takes place this August at the Jasper Hotel in Melbourne. The conference, ‘Exclusion and Embrace: Disability, Justice and Spirituality’, is endorsed by a wide number of organisations including the Jewish Christian Muslim Association, the Faith Communities Council of Victoria and the Victorian Council of Churches. It will ...
LARRY MARSHALL
What would happen if you brought a young Muslim, a Tamil Christian and a Sinhalese Bhuddist out from Sri Lanka and asked them to talk about peace and social justice in a Uniting Church school? For anyone who is familiar with the racial tensions in Sri Lanka post the civil war, this would seem unlikely. However, that’s just ...
UnitingCare Tasmania and the Brighton Council, in the state’s south, have joined forces to educate struggling families on the nutritional benefits of fresh food as well as help them develop the skills to grow their own produce.
The innovative partnership – which is also supported by a six-month Work for the Dole project – will see community ...
A decade ago most Victorians would not have been able to confidently place the small Tasmanian mining town of Beaconsfield on a map, even if they knew it existed.
But then, on 25 April, 2006 – a decade ago this month – the Tamar Valley town became the centre of world attention when three miners ...
Retired Uniting Church minister Bob Faser remembers attending an ecumenical service in Hobart for the victims of the Dunblane Primary School massacre, in Scotland, in March 1996.
Mr Faser recalls how the general feeling among attendees was one of gratitude that Tasmania was shielded by its isolation from facing such horrors.
Wesley Mission Victoria (WMV) will join the UnitingCare Network Project (UCNP) following approval from the Uniting Church Synod Standing Committee at its March meeting. It confirms Wesley as the 26th UnitingCare agency to be part of the network.
In announcing the news, Bob Hodges, Chair of the UCNP Project Control Group, and Sue Norman, Chair of WMV, said the best ...
As the coordinator of chaplaincy at Epworth Hospital in Richmond, Rev Lauren Mosso is continuing a decades-long church relationship with the hospital.
“The role of chaplain and pastoral care coordinator has been held by a Uniting Church (or Methodist) minister down through the ages. There’s a chain of people of whom I’m very proud to ...
More than 200 people representing 27 religions and cultures attended an interfaith dinner last Monday to celebrate Melbourne’s diversity.
The inaugural I’ll Dine With You event took place at City Square in the heart of Melbourne’s CBD. Guests sat along an 80-metre open-air table and exchanged conversations over food provided by the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, Lentil As Anything ...
Share has won a major gong after it clinched the Fundraising Institute of Australia (FIA) National Gifts in Wills Award of Excellence.
The winners were announced at a gala dinner yesterday with Share selected for their program which encourages donors to make a commitment to restore life, joy and hope to people who are disadvantaged or ...
There has been a lot of talk in the past few weeks about the influence of ‘the mob’ on people’s opinions. Herald Sun columnist and Sky News correspondent Andrew Bolt attributed his remarkable
double-about-face regarding Archbishop George Pell’s testimony to the Royal Commission to giving ‘in to the mob’.
UCA Funds Management has announced a further commitment to gender diversity for 2016. The ethical funds manager intends to monitor the proportion of women on company boards in which it invests. This initiative supports the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) 2015 goal to ensure women comprise 30 per cent of all boards in the ASX 200 by ...
Federal opposition leader Bill Shorten has announced Indigenous leader Pat Dodson will replace departing Senator Joe Bullock in Western Australia.
Pat Dodson is a Yawuru man from Broome, Western Australia. He is a former chair of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation and a former commissioner into Aboriginal deaths in custody.
