DEB BENNETT
Marriage has certainly made the news in the past few weeks.
“The Prince of Wales is delighted to announce the engagement of Prince Harry to Ms. Meghan Markle.”
“…61.6 per cent of clear responses were yes.” – David Kalisch, ABS chief statistician.
Both announcements, in their own way, reflect the incredible social changes that ...
Raelene Thompson has been appointed the new chair of the Uniting AgeWell board.
Raelene, who has extensive experience in aged care, replaces Rev Allan Thompson, who is retiring from the board after nine years, including the last three as chair.
Raelene has previously managed the Commonwealth Aged Care Standards and Accreditation Agency for Victoria and Tasmania. She was ...
Tasmanian author and Wesley Hobart UCA Faith Community member James Boyce believes the State can finally rid its pubs and clubs of the scourge of poker machines as opposition to the ‘one-armed bandits’ intensifies.
Dr Boyce was speaking after his latest book, Losing streak – How Tasmania was gamed by the gambling industry, won the People’s Choice Award at ...
Uniting Church congregations throughout Australia are standing in solidarity with the refugees on Manus Island following their forced removal from the decommissioned detention centre.
Churches throughout Australia also posed with their arms crossed as a sign of solidarity with the men on Manus, who were transferred to the East Lorengau Transit Centre last Friday despite vehement opposition ...
Moderator Rev Sharon Hollis delivered the following sermon at Sophia’s Spring Uniting Church on Sunday 26 November to mark the beginning of 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence.
Ms Hollis has also offered a series of daily prayers on Twitter for the 16 Days of the campaign, which begins on the International Day for ...
By PENNY MULVEY
After a marathon session of the Victorian Upper House this week, the Dying with Dignity legislation was narrowly passed, 22 votes to 18.
The Bill will give terminally-ill Victorians in intolerable pain and with less than six months to live the right to ask to end their lives using prescription medication.
A dozen former Australians of the Year have called on political leaders to immediately address the ‘human disaster’ unfolding on Manus Island, as police and military begin to forcibly remove over 400 men from a detention centre.
In an open letter addressed to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Opposition Leader Bill Shorten, 12 former Australians of the Year warned ...
A group of religious leaders – including a Uniting Church minister – were arrested on Tuesday for blocking construction of the Adani rail link.
Five peaceful protesters from Uniting, Catholic, Buddhist and Quaker backgrounds blockaded the rail line from Abbot Point coal port to the Galilee Basin, site of Adani’s proposed Carmichael coal mine.
Uniting Church President Stuart McMillan has called on church members to pray for a peaceful resolution to the unfolding crisis in Zimbabwe.
Last week, the Zimbabwe military seized control of the capital and detained President Robert Mugabe under house arrest.
The ruling Zanu-PF party sacked Mr Mugabe as their leader and demanded he resign as head of ...
Moe Turaga came back to the Uniting Church in Mildura on Sunday 29 October.
The disability services worker from Bundaberg in Queensland was returning to the Sunraysia region for the first time in 30 years – a region that holds some painful memories for him.
For three years from the late 1980s, Moe was a horticultural worker at a ...
NIGEL TAPP
When Gospel Ralte and his wife Grace decided to escape from Myanmar three years ago they told nobody, not even their two teenage children.
Gospel explained that it would have been far too risky to share their plans given the tight controls placed on Christians by the military rulers in the country.
TIM LAM
For the past 15 years, a theatre company in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs has helped young people navigate the challenges of adolescence.
Fresh Theatre for Social Change is the brainchild of Sharyn Mullens Taylor, whose husband Rev Lucas Taylor is the minister at Manningham Uniting Church.
