Watch a Christmas message from Uniting Aboriginal & Islander Christian Congress Chairperson Rev Dennis Corowa by clicking here or the image above.
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Synod of Victoria and Tasmania Moderator Sharon Hollis has offered the following prayer in the wake of Thursday’s deliberate running down of pedestrians in Melbourne’s CBD.
Loving, merciful God
You come amongst us as a fragile baby,
healing the grief and sorrow of the world
through your loving suffering solidarity with humanity.
We pray for the city of Melbourne.
While the eternal and transcendent might be considered the proper preoccupations for an academic theologian, Sean Winter says his new role is in keeping with a much more grounded approach that has been forged in constant change.
Dr Winter will next year become director of synod’s Education & Formation for Leadership team, which will encompass his current roles as acting head of ...
UCA Funds Management Chief Executive Officer Michael Walsh admits he is sceptical about the results achieved when investment institutions add their name to action plans which tackle issues such as climate change.
“Over more than 20 years in the ethical investment industry I have seen a lot of firms sign up to show support for initiatives relating to climate change. While ...
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 ...
