“How do you see God at work in the world?” This is the question Alister Pate, pastor of Caféchurch, hopes to answer with a photography exhibition to be held as part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival in September.
The collaboration between the Church of All Nations in Carlton and Caféchurch Melbourne aims to encourage people to think about how they ...
UnitingCare Prahran Mission was recently welcomed into the fold of the Cheltenham-Mentone Uniting Church community at a service marking the agency’s move to the church’s Charman Road property.
UnitingCare Prahran Mission’s Moorabbin office was sold under the Uniting our future program and has now relocated to the church’s refurbished tennis pavilion in Cheltenham.
A support program aimed at assisting patients with a mental illness at Tasmania’s North-West Regional Hospital has been recognised with a national best of care award by Spiritual Care Australia (SCA). The ‘Soul Food’ program operates on a weekly basis. It is run by Mid North-West Uniting Church member Irene Hardy and her fellow chaplain Jan Gray as well as ...
At the time of writing, confusion surrounds the fate of a woman sentenced to death for the crime of apostasy in Sudan.
Twenty-seven-year-old wife and mother Meriam Yahia Ibrahim Ishag was sentenced to death by Judge Abbas al Khalifa of the Public Order Court in El Haj Yousif, Khartoum on 15 May. The death sentence is for apostasy under Article ...
By Penny Mulvey
Justice Peter McClellan AM, Chair of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, provided significant insights into the progress of the hearings when he addressed a men’s health symposium in Brisbane last month.
He told the symposium one of the questions considered by the Royal Commission is: Why does a person become an abuser?
...A discussion paper on marriage and same-gender relationships has been prepared by the Doctrine Working Group (DWG) and is now available for comment. The paper comes in response to a request from the 13th Assembly for a discussion paper on the theology of marriage within the Uniting Church. It was also asked to explore implications for public covenants for same-gender ...
Uniting Church Moderator Dan Wootton recently wrote to Prime Minister Tony Abbott to express concern over the dismantling of the Disability Discrimination Commissioner position.
Mr Wootton pointed out that since the Commissioner’s role was established in 1993, dignity for people with disabilities had been enhanced, with significantly less discrimination than 20 years ago.
By PENNY MULVEY
Most of us like certainty. We struggle with change that is imposed, unplanned or unexpected. It is little wonder the recent Federal Budget, which involves significant change and has serious ramifications for many people – including those who rely on Uniting Church community services – has been so roundly condemned.
The $36.6 million debt ensuing from the closure and sale of Acacia College has been cleared.
The main loan from Uniting Financial Services (UFS) was repaid in May. The early repayment has saved the Church up to $1.4 million in interest payments which would have had to be paid if the loan went its full term, to 31 December 2014.
...By Penny Mulvey
The Uniting Church is about to embark on a significant property development that will restore its place and identity in the heart of Melbourne.
After more than 30 years of discussions and several attempted project proposals, the Synod Standing Committee has approved final negotiations with Leighton Properties as the preferred developer to restore and redevelop the Wesley ...
The synod Justice and International Mission (JIM) unit has been encouraging Uniting Church members to be part of a campaign to stop money stolen from developing countries being shifted into Australia. Work by the JIM unit identified more than $50 million of suspicious funds that had been transferred from Papua New Guinea (PNG) alone.
There is a Green Bible, a Gay and Lesbian Bible, an African Bible, an Amplified Bible, a New American Bible, a Youth Bible, a Bible in Cockney and a People’s Bible.
The universal script has not only fragmented into several splinter Bibles, but, far worse, it has become closely allied to the entertainment industry as an easily consumable commercial object.
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