A memorial service will be held at St Michael’s Uniting Church – on the corner of Russell and Collins Street in Melbourne – on 8 December to commemorate the 30th anniversary of a mass shooting which rocked the city.
On 8 December 1987, a man armed with a sawn-off shotgun entered the Australia Post headquarters in Queen St ...
Uniting Church members in Melbourne’s east have been meeting with young Muslims to share a mutual love of poetry.
At the monthly Poetry and Faith evenings, people from St Kilda parish share a meal with Muslims for Progressive Values (MPV) members at the St Kilda church.
Someone then presents a specially chosen poem and offers an ...
The Uniting Church has urged the Australian government to listen to the voice of First Peoples and support the Uluru Statement.
In May this year, Indigenous leaders met for three days at Uluru to discuss their approach to Constitutional Recognition.
The meeting developed the Uluru Statement of the Heart, which called for the establishment ...
NIGEL TAPP
Last year the extended Maynard family provided each of their nine children with $50 to choose what they wanted to buy for another sibling for Christmas.
The gift was not a present handed directly to the other child but something bought in their name to support an ethical project overseas.
NIGEL TAPP
The Uniting Church’s relationship with the nation’s First Peoples has changed markedly throughout the last three decades. Those of non-Aboriginal heritage have sought to throw off the cloak of paternalism that dominated much of the early relationship between First Peoples and the formation churches.
In 1985, the UCA Assembly unanimously endorsed the establishment of ...
In 2013, the Presbytery of Port Phillip West adopted its three-year strategy called Regenerating the Church. Following a thorough review in 2016, the next phase of this strategic project, Regenerating the Church 2021 Strategy, was formulated. This current Strategy clearly identifies links to the Synod’s Strategic Framework including the Mission Principles and Strategic Priorities.
The Paradise Papers have lifted the lid on the on-going tax cheating activities by the obscenely rich and multinational corporations.
This is not a marginal activity, but a systemic, global issue. We all pay the price if tax cheats get away with paying less than they should, as governments will lack the money for things such as ...
The north-west regional Victoria town of Patchewollock may only have a population of 133 people, but more than 100 churchgoers and visitors gathered at the local Uniting Church in early November to celebrate the congregation’s 90th anniversary.
In 1927, the Patchewollock Uniting Church foundation stone was laid at its current site on Yenolom Street. Patchewollock Uniting Church secretary Sandra ...
The Uniting Church’s LGBTIQ network has called on the Church to amend its policy on marriage following the results of the marriage law postal survey.
Australians overwhelmingly voted in favour of legalising same-sex marriage, with more than 61 percent of respondents voting ‘yes’.
Uniting Network national secretary Warren Talbot welcomed the results of the survey and urged ...
This year the Victorian parliament legislated to establish the Reportable Conduct Scheme. Overseen by the Commission for Children and Young People, the legislation only applies in Victoria. The Reportable Conduct Scheme commenced on 1 July this year and aims to improve organisational responses to suspected child abuse by workers/volunteers and to identify people who pose a risk of ...
REBECCA BEISLER
There was much joy inside Footscray Community Uniting Church as 400 people gathered to celebrate the ordination of Rev Paul Aleu Dau.
The South Sudanese community in Footscray danced and sang in Paul’s native Dinka language while family and friends prayed for Paul who begins his ordained ministry at Springvale Uniting Church this month.
Greetings in the name of our Lord Jesus.
The week ahead will be challenging for our community and our church, as the results of the government’s voluntary postal survey on same gender marriage will be released.
We are in challenging times facing a range of disturbing issues all of which go to our common humanity ...
