When Ulverstone Uniting Church minister Rev Gospel Ralte baptised Emily and Linda Fanai in a Malaysian refugee camp in 2012 he could not have guessed how his path would one day again intersect with the twins and their family.
Five years later the Fanai family, consisting of the twins, their parents Sena and Mimi and big brother Joel, is living only 115km north of Mr Ralte, and ...
The images associated with Christmas, in popular culture and advertising but also increasingly on personal social media accounts, are invariably happy ones of people surrounded by family and friends.
Richmond Uniting Church minister Rev Dr Sally Douglas said she believed that the notion of having a perfect Christmas created a lot of pressure, and sometimes heartbreak, for those ...
UCA Funds Management has announced that Mathew Browning will be the ethical fund manager’s new chief executive officer and executive director, effective 5 February 2018.
UCA Funds Management chairperson Dr David Cousins said the board is delighted to announce Mr Browning’s appointment to the team.
“On behalf of the board of directors, I welcome Mathew as our new ...
The President of the Uniting Church in Australia Stuart McMillan has urged Church members to help ensure the Church’s commitments to child safety are honoured as a result of the landmark Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
At the Royal Commission’s final sitting in Sydney today, Chief Commissioner Justice Peter McClellan ...
Moderator Reverend Sharon Hollis showed she was a dab hand with a shovel as she took part in Thursday morning’s sod-turning ceremony at the Wesley Place redevelopment of the Wesley Uniting Church site on Lonsdale St in Melbourne.
The Lord Mayor of Melbourne, Councillor Robert Doyle, donned the hi-vis gear and white safety helmet along with representatives from site developer ...
Anti-gambling activists have welcomed Tasmanian Labor’s pledge to remove all 2375 poker machines from the state’s pubs and clubs by 2023 if it wins power at the upcoming state election.
Leader Rebecca White said yesterday that a Labor government elected at March’s state poll would give notice to gambling giant Federal Hotels that the ...
Chaplains from 15 Australian universities came together at the beginning of December for the 2017 National Chaplaincy Conference.
The conference, hosted at Federation University’s Churchill campus from 28 November to 1 December, was an opportunity for tertiary chaplains to receive professional development and support.
The theme for this year’s conference was ‘Belief, Culture, Disruption’.
The Uniting Church in Australia has joined with its global church partners to express grave concerns over the move by the United States to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
World Council of Churches General Secretary Rev Dr Olav Fykse Tveit warned the US decision to change the status of Jerusalem seriously threatens negotiations for a two-state solution and undermines ...
Sisters and brothers grace, mercy and peace from God and Christ Jesus our Lord.
Since the 13th Assembly our Church has been involved in respectful conversations about marriage, holding a space for grace for each other. During this time and particularly in the past year our nation has also had a conversation and a poll. Sadly the broader ...
KAREL REUS
Not a celebration of the fortieth anniversary of the Uniting Church in Australia, but rather a note on its passing.
You reckon it a fair achievement
to exist for forty years as church.
You took a stance
on the side of the widows
and the poor;
made it your mission
(so to speak),
your brand
VicTas Moderator Sharon Hollis has released a video message for Christmas. You can watch the message below or read the full transcript.
Transcript
Theologian Serene Jones often speaks of her congregation’s celebration of the Christmas story.
Each year, as someone narrates, different members of the congregation act out the various parts.
ROS MARSDEN
Perhaps it’s wrong to write about worship beyond the context of God in a church publication, but for those of us lucky enough to witness Sir Paul McCartney last night at Melbourne’s AAMI Park, we bowed before greatness.
We also experienced a sense of community and shared excitement as we sang along with a Beatle, yes ...
