MATT PULFORD
It’s the fifth day of the 2018 Uniting Aboriginal and Islander Christian Congress National Conference in Geelong.
After four days of listening to Harley Eagle, a First Nations trauma expert from Canada, Congress members are opening up to each other about their pain.
“My wife was the eldest of 14 children and one day her mother ...
An 11th-hour reprieve against a deportation order has kept an 80-year-old mother and her 50-year-old autistic daughter together with their family in Australia.
Florence Allen and daughter Sheryil were booked on a one-way flight to India on 15 January, with the immigration department requesting evidence that the tickets had been purchased.
TIM LAM
If you visit Melbourne’s Wesley Uniting Church on the last Sunday of the month, you will find its historic church hall transformed into a mobile pet clinic.
Kittens, canines and even the occasional pet rat can be seen receiving medical check-ups from a team of volunteer veterinarians and vet nurses.
JOHN CLARKE
The ubiquitous hot cross buns in the supermarkets are an early reminder of the beckoning journey towards the suffering of the Crucifixion.
Across our life as the Uniting Church in Victoria and Tasmania, there is a call to us. Our synod’s Vision and Mission Principles remind us that “the Spirit is calling us forward ...
DAVID SOUTHWELL
Once while nestled in Moscow hotel bed and flicking idly through the Russian TV channels before trying to sleep I came across the uninterrupted broadcast of a log slowly burning in a fireplace.
It was oddly warming, almost as if it was really crackling away in the room, and ...
Uniting Aboriginal Islander and Christian Congress (UAICC) members have recounted their experiences of cross-generational trauma – along with stories of hope and healing – at the 2018 National Conference.
More than 130 UAICC members from Australia are gathering at Geelong Grammar School this week to explore how Congress and the Uniting Church can work towards the healing of ...
DEB BENNETT
Barbara Dorward and Carol Coon know the importance of good food and good company. When they realised that some elderly widowers in the Airport West East Keilor Uniting Church congregation were struggling to prepare meals, they decided to run simple cooking classes in the church kitchen.
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All eyes will turn to Melbourne Park over the next fortnight as the world’s top players battle it out for the most prestigious tennis trophy in the Asia-Pacific region.
This year’s Australian Open has been shrouded in controversy before a ball was struck, with women’s tennis ...
Cost and time are two of the biggest barriers that often prevent people from doing further study.
Pilgrim Theological College is aiming to tackle those obstacles by removing some of the financial sting to studying theology for those under 35, while providing flexible means of doing so.
The college is offering 10 scholarships that will pay half the fees ...
Once it might have taken the most fanciful, or satiric, of political forecasters to predict that a US presidential race would be between contenders best known for being a former reality TV show star and a former daytime talk show host.
However, ever since her inspiring Golden Globes speech on female ...
Uniting Church minister, ethicist and theologian Professor Rufus Black has been appointed the Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Tasmania.
It will be the latest addition to a breathtakingly varied and accomplished CV in academia, law, the private and public sectors.
Prof Black, a Rhodes Scholar who studied moral theology at Oxford University and also has degrees ...
There will be a distinctly Canadian flavour to the Uniting Aboriginal Islander and Christian Congress (UAICC) National Conference starting this Saturday in Geelong.
Visiting keynote speaker Harley Eagle will talk about the experience of the Indigenous peoples in Canada as a way of helping the First Peoples of Australia reflect on their story of colonial occupation.
