The Assembly Standing Committee of the Uniting Church in Australia has revised and updated the Church’s policy on managing complaints of sexual abuse and misconduct by members or adherents.
The policy clarifies and supports the standards of conduct that the Uniting Church expects of its members, whose behaviour should be and be seen to be beyond reproach.
By Penny Mulvey
The 16th public hearing of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, relating to the Catholic Archdiocese’s Melbourne Response, concluded in Melbourne late last month.
This was the first public hearing held in Victoria although counsel assisting the Commission, Gail Furness, made it clear it would not be the last, and that other issues ...
Thousands of Uniting Church members are joining forces with Christians across Australia to speak up against human trafficking and slavery on Abolitionist Sunday 23 November.
Following in the footsteps of those whose faith inspired them to seek a legal end to slavery more than 200 years ago, these modern-day Abolitionists are saying ‘no’ to a world where millions of men, ...
By Penny Mulvey
Pornography is an artificial digital drug which is having a dramatic impact on the male brain, a Christian neuroscientist told a Melbourne seminar in June.
More than 200 predominantly young men and women attended the event titled Grey Matters: How a porn saturated culture is affecting our brains, jointly hosted by Guilty Pleasure and The Roundtable, an ...
The Uniting Church in Australia has called for the immediate and safe return of 45 Fijian peacekeepers taken captive in the Middle East.
The peacekeepers, who are part of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF), were captured by Syrian rebels last week in the Golan Heights area between Syria and Israel.
The Uniting Church in Australia has welcomed an announcement by the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection that some children in detention will be released into the community, and asked for reassurances on the conditions of their care
“We hope that the increased support and protection announced today will be sufficient and ongoing,” said Uniting Church President Rev Prof ...
The Uniting Church in Australia has welcomed the Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s announcement that he is taking proposed changes to the Racial Discrimination Act off the table.
“I thank the Prime Minister for his leadership on this matter and pay tribute to all the community leaders who stood together to oppose the changes,” said Uniting Church President Rev Prof ...
The Uniting Church in Australia has strongly condemned the continuing and systematic abuse of asylum seekers trying to reach Australia by boat and those being held indefinitely in unsuitable offshore detention centres.
The President of the Uniting Church in Australia, Rev Prof Andrew Dutney said that the Government’s inhumane treatment of 157 Tamil asylum seekers had plumbed new depths of cruelty.
Shadows cast across the high ceiling of St Paul’s Cathedral, combined with the echoing sounds of the Choir of Trinity College, helped to create a sense of ceremony at a multifaith service for Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 late last month.
People of various cultures, ages and faiths filled the church to pay their respects to those ...
The view from the pew in an Australian Uniting Church isn’t always inspiring. Many long-term congregation members are all too aware of empty seats, voices that waver on beloved hymns and the lurking spectre of a budget committee meeting when the service ends…
It’s true that church attendance in Australia is in decline, as it is throughout much of the ...
The Uniting Church in Australia, through the Assembly’s Christian Unity Working Group (CUWG), recently farewelled long time member and former national secretary, Rev Dr Rob Gallacher. After nearly 25 year’s commitment to the UCA’s CUWG, Dr Gallacher has resigned.
From being a member in 1991, Dr Gallacher became the national secretary from 2001 – 2003. ...
Frontier Services has announced that Outback Links is back in operation after a temporary break. At the start of last month volunteers were ready to hit the road and lend a helping hand to families in remote areas throughout Australia.
Outback Links matches volunteers with families in remote Australia to provide hands-on help when it is needed most, be it ...
