DAVID SOUTHWELL
For six months of the year Bairnsdale Uniting Church becomes the second spiritual home for a group of men from Vanuatu.
The current group will be returning to Vanuatu early this month and for some it has been their third time working on a 500-acre organic vegetable farm in East Gippsland. From November to ...
While footy umpires can be targets of criticism and abuse on any given Saturday, it’s the potential feedback he might get on a Sunday that concerns Leongatha Uniting Church minister Rev Paul Bauer.
Paul has picked up the flags again this season to be a goal umpire, something he has done for 25 years with ...
Uniting Vic.Tas will trial a new service to ensure out-of-home care siblings remain together for as long as possible.
On average, 25 percent of children who enter into foster care in Victoria are separated from their siblings.
The Siblings Support and Placement Service, the first program of its kind in Australia, will help keep siblings together. It ...
The Uniting Church hosted an ecumenical service of lament over the weekend to mourn Pacific guest workers who have died or been injured in the Australian horticultural sector.
Uniting Church in Australia President Stuart McMillan joined members of the Australian Pacific community and representatives of the Salvation Army, Catholic, Baptist, Hillsong, Mormon and other churches at the service, held ...
Uniting Vic.Tas launched two services on Wednesday that will work towards saving lives and creating safer environments for families across Victoria.
An additional $1.9 million funding from the state government will be used to deliver Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD) treatment for parents whose children are subject to a family reunification order. The money will also fund a new ...
Emerging church leaders got an opportunity to show that they could handle anything when they were invited to pick up live snakes at the Centre of Theology and Ministry last Friday.
The snake handling was part of a three-day intensive course, which is the introduction to a new 18-month program that aims to develop leadership skills in the Uniting ...
Thousands of people who have come to Australia seeking asylum are now at risk of losing access to critical services and basic financial support under new Government changes.
It is feared that drastic reductions to the number of people eligible for support under the Status Resolution Support Services Program (SRSS) could create enormous hardship for already vulnerable people.
Robyn J. Whitaker, University of Divinity
I grew up in a Christian home, where a photo of Jesus hung on my bedroom wall. I still have it. It is schmaltzy and rather tacky in that 1970s kind of way, but as a little girl I loved it. ...
Book | The Character Gap |Christian Miller
Review by Nick Mattiske
The ball tampering cricket scandal has put moral character in the headlines again. While disciplinary action has been taken, deeper questions remain about why it happened – why on Earth the players thought they could get away with it and what sort of culture has allowed the cricketers ...
The Easter Way of the Cross walk around central Melbourne churches has been a major ecumenical event for nearly two decades but this year’s event had a special sense of accomplishment.
On Good Friday the walk had, for the first time, a full complement of Stations of the Cross, with St Michael’s Uniting Church on Collins St hosting newly installed sculpture of ...
As I prepare this message my heart and mind are swirling with the suffering of the world, and those I know.
Daily, our television and news feeds are filled with images of the suffering of the Syrian people – victims of their own government’s brutality and the inactionof international powers.
Moderator Rev Sharon Hollis has urged Australians to reject the federal government’s “racist dog-whistling” during her address at the Palm Sunday Walk for Justice for Refugees.
Thousands joined in protest marches in cities and regional towns across Australia on Sunday to call on the government to end its policy of offshore detention for asylum seekers who arrive by ...
