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 ...
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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.
This year’s Queenscliff-Point Lonsdale Uniting Church’s tea cosy exhibition made even more of a splash than normal.
Visitors to the exhibition, located on the coastal tourist resort destination of the Bellarine Peninsula, were greeted by the sight of a suspended two-metre papier-mache whale presiding over a school of clown-fish tea cosies.
Uniting Church minister and South Sudanese refugee Rev Paul Dau says some of the recent media coverage and high-level political commentary on African youth crime comes is hugely disappointing.
The newly ordained Springvale Uniting Church minister endorsed comments from UCA President Stuart McMillan who yesterday said the spread of fear and negativity about South Sudanese and other African communities is a ...
By trying something new a small country church under the threat of closure has received an unexpected Christmas gift, a fresh lease of life.
St Andrews Uniting Church is located in the town of Howlong, which sits alongside the Murray River 28km west of Albury.
It is no wonder that a family of keen back country skiers and bushwalkers would be looking forward to moving to Tasmania, but for Rohan Pryor the real allure is in taking up his role as synod liaison minister for the Apple Isle.
“This excitement comes with a deep sense of call to this role, something like the right role at the ...
Rev Alistair Macrae believes his congregation and the wider church will face some big challenges this year but they are put in perspective by some newcomers to Wesley Uniting Church.
“We’ve got a new family of asylum seekers from Iran,” Mr Macrae said.
“The father had his own business in Iran but became a Christian, and really couldn’t stick ...
