Today is an important day for all gender diverse peoples in society. I was originally hesitant as to what I would write. My life story? My trauma? Pain? Etc, etc. Then it hit me, transgender visibility is more than just revealing the past and connecting from related traumas.
Transgender visibility day is a day where we unite on a proud ...
As we come towards Easter, Moderator Denise Liersch’s video invites us to listen to the story of Good Friday through Luke’s eyes.
“Luke invites us to listen much more deeply and to let ourselves be touched by the griefs and disappointments that saturate his story of the resurrection of Jesus, because, for Luke, Good Friday is enmeshed all through ...
By Cameron McAdam
The pantomime Jack and the Beanstalk recently finished a season in Mt Eliza, as part of a community engagement activity of the Village Uniting Church, Mt Eliza.
Back in 2019, a then group of church playgroup and church parents got talking about the possibility of doing a pantomime.
By Geoff Thompson
Traditional Christian teaching on sex and gender assumes a correlation between the natural and moral orders.
While this has biblical warrants, the Bible also contains other views about the relationship between the natural and the moral, most notably in the books of Ecclesiastes and Job.
Ecclesiastes asks, “Who can make straight what God has made crooked?”
By Andrew Humphries
Over a decade ago, Swedish developer Markus Persson created what has become the best-selling video game of all time.
His creation, Minecraft, has sold over 238 million copies and has nearly 140 million monthly active users.
Among them are members of the Banyule Network of Uniting Churches, thanks to an idea hatched in part by Minister Rev ...
By Andrew Humphries
Former Tasmanian Uniting Church Presbytery Minister Anthea Maynard’s own life-changing event has been the impetus for her involvement in a project that benefits millions of the world’s poorest people.
Five years ago, after 12 months of treatment, Anthea was given the all-clear in a battle with cancer.
The successful outcome meant that Anthea took stock of her ...
By Andrew Humphries
In the modern fast-paced world of 24-hour news cycles, opinion shaped by social media, and seemingly endless confrontation between one group or another, just getting through another exhausting day sometimes seems enough of a challenge for us.
But what if, for some people, there was an extra layer to that challenge?
By Andrew Humphries
When Rev Sylvia ‘Akau’ola Tongotongo talks about the importance of multiculturalism and developing an intercultural framework within the Uniting Church, she is speaking from real experience.
In fact, like the song made popular in the 1960s by Australian singer Lucky Starr, Sylvia has indeed “been everywhere, man” and experienced much along the way.
By Damien Tann
You must be pleased the lockdown has lifted, eh?”
“Well, it hasn’t really, not for us. If anything, it’s made it harder for us because South Australia is really clamping down against tourists from Melbourne.”
Such is life in a border town, although not in Bordertown, which might have made things a bit easier for us all.
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By Andrew Humphries
The focus has been on indigenous issues at the Centre for Theology and Ministry this week, with three important events happening in the space of 24 hours.
Earlier today, a special ceremony was held to mark the renaming of rooms and spaces at CTM, including the main teaching rooms and the Wyselaskie Auditorium.
By Andrew Humphries
Six-thousand kilometres separate Kiribati in the Pacific Islands and Ulverstone in Tasmania, but one man is doing his bit to bring residents from both countries together.
As the Synod’s Community Connections Worker in Tasmania, employed through the Justice and International Mission Cluster, Taua Ritiata plays a vital role in helping seasonal workers like those from his home ...
By Andrew Humphries
When Ballarat woman Pippa Lidgett uncovered a rare and historic book belonging to her father Bill last year, she knew there was only one place it could be properly looked after.
The book, published in 1634, is now housed at the Dalton McCaughey Library at the Centre for Theology and Ministry in Parkville, under the watchful eye ...