Tasmanians suffering from breathing difficulties – including asthma – have been warned to take extra care as more than 80 bushfires are blanketing large parts of the state in smoke.
While no communities are currently under threat from the fires, residents – particularly the elderly and young – are encouraged to be particularly vigilant and remain indoors with their ...
Technology is opening up new ways to engage with scripture. An increasing number of people are accessing the Bible through their smartphones, so they can read it anywhere, at any time.
This year, the World Council of Churches will bring worship materials from the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity to people’s smartphones and tablets for the first time.
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Ninety-nine-year-old Trudi Kaplan’s wish to visit the imaginary world of Cirque du Soleil’s Quidam was recently granted thanks to Uniting AgeWell’s Wishing Well program.
Trudi, originally from the United States, has no relatives in Australia. She currently resides in the Uniting AgeWell Queenborough Rise community in Hobart and loves to express her creativity through art.
If reports are correct, today Pope Francis is expected to meet Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google and Jared Cohen, current head of Google Ideas. For the global leader of a church to make time for such a meeting is a reminder yet again that technology has become a significant factor in theological messaging.
In 1926, the population of Australia was just over six million people, King George V (the current Queen’s grandfather) was the head of state and Melbourne would go on to defeat Collingwood in the VFL Grand Final. At the beginning of that year, on Sunday 17 January, Arthur Tonkin celebrated his fifth birthday and attended his first church service ...
Victoria is set for a scorcher today with temperatures expected to hit 41 degrees. The hot weather particularly impacts older people, who are at risk of heat-related illnesses.
Allison Patchett, general manager of Quality and Risk at Uniting AgeWell, explained how the agency looks after its residents during extreme heat events.
“Sometimes you will never know the true value of a moment until it becomes a memory.” – Iman Abdulmajid
Since news of David Bowie’s death yesterday, many words have been written about the impact the singer/actor/poet/musician had on pop culture throughout four decades. But perhaps the most prophetic words were written by his wife, Iman Abdulmajid, just two days before ...
Would you like to gather with other women of faith in a Christian context? Registration is open for the UnitingWomen 2016 conference taking place in Adelaide Thursday 28 April to midday on Sunday 1 May.
The conference, Sharing Stories of Hope, promises a wide range of speakers sharing a diversity of experience and thought. It offers an opportunity for ...
The denial of education is a well-documented issue, particularly for women in developing countries. But sometimes a practical solution that many of us take for granted can be the difference between attending and missing school.
Sisters Wendy Flahive and Gill Trudinger learnt about a program they believed they could support.
A world-wide grassroots organisation, Days for Girls ...
Advent was celebrated with joy and fun when the Macedon Ranges Uniting Church partnership of 12 churches joined for a combined outdoor service in Stanley Park at Mount Macedon. The large reserve, set in a natural bush setting full of walking trails, provided the perfect backdrop for the fellowship and worship. The 70 church members who attended represented every ...
This advent I have been surrounded by angels.
The Geelong City Ministers, an ecumenical grouping of Geelong churches, has been supporting an advent/nativity project for the last three years. It all started quite simply with a trail of knitted sheep around the shops in Pakington St in Newtown, engaging shop keepers, fibre artists (that’s knitters ...
