Christians from all denominations are invited to attend a conference on spiritual healing in Melbourne this October.
The 2017 OSL Healing Ministries conference will be held at the Waverley International Hotel in Glen Waverley from 2-6 October. The conference takes place once every three years and the theme for the 2017 event is “Walking in Faith into ...
DAVID SOUTHWELL
In Australia, the generation gap has become the accommodation gap.
The dizzying rise in house prices, which have far outstripped incomes, especially in Sydney and Melbourne, threatens to deprive many young people of what many considered a generational birthright in post-war Australia, the opportunity to call a place your own.
For those uninitiated in the decision-making process of the Uniting Church, it can be a little confusing to attend a meeting where three coloured cards – orange, yellow and blue – seem to dominate proceedings.
As Synod Standing Committee member Rev Dr Robyn Whitaker described in her sermon at the opening service to the 2017 ...
One hundred and seventy five years is an extraordinarily long period by any measure – three quarters of the entire time of European settlement in Australia – but that is the anniversary being celebrated this year by the Wesley congregation at Yarra Street, Geelong.
On Sunday 22 October, this major milestone will be celebrated with ...
Rev Denise Liersch, moderator-elect of the Uniting Church Vic/Tas synod, travelled to Germany as one of three Uniting Church representatives to the World Communion of Reformed Churches, celebrating the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, from 29 June to 7 July. She shares her experiences with Crosslight.
The deliberations of the Victorian and Tasmanian Uniting Church might not normally attract an ABC TV crew, but they were there at Synod 2017 on Sunday.
A day later ABC Lateline broadcast a story on the working group discussions of same-sex marriage that occurred at the request of Assembly, ...
Almost 300 Synod members packed Box Hill Town Hall throughout the past five days to discern and discuss the future of the Uniting Church in Victoria and Tasmania.
Rev Dr Robyn Whitaker set the tone for the 13th Synod meeting at the opening worship at St Michael’s Uniting Church. She urged Synod members to “wrestle with ...
The 2017 Vic/Tas Synod meeting began last Friday with a moving service at St Michael’s UC in Melbourne. More than 300 people have gathered together at Box Hill Town Hall to discuss and decide on issues important to the life of the church now and into the future.
To keep up to date with all the news ...
REV ALEX SANGSTER
Throughout that past two months I have taken part in two acts of non-violent direct action that involved prayer.
In July, I was one of eight representatives of the Australian Religious Response to Climate Change (ARRCC) network that staged a sit-in prayer vigil occupying the entrance area of the office of Environment Minister Josh ...
Members and supporters of the Rohingya community staged a passionate demonstration in central Melbourne on Thursday morning to highlight the “genocide” being committed against their people in Myanmar and call on the Australian government to do more to stop the humanitarian tragedy.
Morning rush hour commuters near the Spring St end of Collins St were confronted by ...
Representatives from different faith communities gathered outside Parliament House in Canberra on Wednesday to call for stronger bipartisan action on climate change.
The demonstration was part of the Community Climate Petition, a grassroots campaign spearheaded by faith communities throughout Australia.
Faith leaders from Christian, Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Quaker and Muslim communities prayed together on the front lawn of ...
The synod’s Justice and International Mission unit is calling on church members to share their views on voluntary assisted dying as the Victorian government prepares to introduce a Dying with Dignity Bill into parliament later this year.
The proposed Bill will allow people experiencing unbearable pain as a result of a terminal illness to access medical intervention ...
