Although he admits a certain bias, Stephen Connelly believes there is something unique about the Dalton McCaughey Library located at Centre of Theology and Ministry in Parkville.
“I believe this library is loveable, it’s quite palpably different from other academic libraries I know.”
That lovableness was affirmed by other speakers and guests as the tributes flowed for Mr ...
On a pleasant summer’s day in early January, holidaymakers and locals watched a small procession make its way from the Lakes Entrance Uniting Church to the inlet lake. Once reaching the shore four people, one clothed in ministerial white, waded into the water.
Onlookers were witnessing the full immersion baptism of Peter Page by Presbytery of Gippsland minister ...
TIM LAM
Amar Timalsina knows how it feels to be an outcast among his own people.
When he turned 12, Amar was struck down with a mysterious disease. Pale patches began appearing on his body. His family took him to traditional healers in his village in remote Nepal, but they could not identify the illness.
Uniting AgeWell is looking for participants to be involved in a new study investigating the therapeutic benefits of singing groups.
The “Remini-Sing” study, led by University of Melbourne, will allow people with dementia living at home and their family members or carers to join a supportive singing group.
During the 20-week study, commencing in March, the Remini-Sing group will ...
Accomplished lawyer and mediator Professor Ian Dunn, who was a member of the Uniting Church Social Services Taskforce from 1977 to 1979, has been made of Member of the Order of Australia in the Australia Day’s Honours List.
His award citation reads “For significant service to the law, to legal standards, education, and specialist accreditation, and as a practitioner in the ...
The President of the Uniting Church in Australia Stuart McMillan has called on state and federal governments to speed up negotiation of treaties that recognise Indigenous sovereignty.
In a video message released to coincide with the 26 January, Mr McMillan urged all Australian governments “to give First Peoples a voice into the political processes which affect their lives.”
There are just over three weeks left to enter Australia’s most prestigious religious and spiritual art competition, the Blake Prize.
The $35,000 biennual prize is awarded to the work that is judged as best encouraging conversation around spirituality and religion in the 21st century.
Local and international contemporary artists are invited to submit entries by 16 February for the ...
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 ...
