DR HARLEY POWELL and REV DR ALLEN EDWARDS
The Victorian parliament is considering legalising voluntary medically assisted dying. While this raises some uncomfortable feelings for many people, it is a significant issue for the whole of our society, and one we should all consider very carefully.
Some folk will vehemently oppose the whole idea of ‘euthanasia’ (as ...
Melbourne’s winter weather presented a formidable challenge for a group of young Tongan students visiting the synod CBD offices on Thursday.
Dressed in scarves and large jackets, the delegation of 17 students and four staff members from Queen Salote College shared stories over a light lunch with moderator Rev Sharon Hollis, intercultural unit director Rev Swee Ann Koh ...
Six members of the Love Makes A Way refugee advocate group, including Uniting Church minister Rev Alex Sangster, were forcibly removed from federal Health Minister Greg Hunt’s Melbourne office on Tuesday evening after staging a four-hour sit-in protest.
No charges have been laid against the group, which also included Uniting Church members Kristen Furneaux and Jake Doleschal, ...
An art book illustrating the faith stories of First Peoples has been awarded the top prize at this year’s SparkLit awards.
The Bible Society’s Our Mob, God’s Story: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Artists Share Their Faith took out the 2017 Australian Christian Book of the Year award.
KIM CAIN
‘God’s love knows no borders.’ The title of the closing prayer summed up proceedings for the roughly 60 people who attended two days of intense study and discussion at the ‘Wisdom’s Feast’ conference, held on the borderlands of the Murray River at Yarrawonga over the weekend.
The event was a collaboration between the Uniting Church’s Centre for Theology ...
In 1977, the year of the formation of the Uniting Church, one of the world’s first personal all-in-one computers, the Commodore PET, was demonstrated at the Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago. A clunky beast by today’s standards, this early computer weighed over 10kg and contained a keyboard that many found difficult to operate.
PENNY MULVEY
THE Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse might have concluded both private and public hearings, but the work is far from complete.
Last month the Royal Commission released a number of reports, with the most significant titled Criminal Justice. This weighty volume – 2070 pages including appendices – makes 85 recommendations aimed at reforming the ...
Just a little over a month ago I was sitting in the courtyard of a micro-brewery in the centre of Leipzig, a beautiful city in eastern Germany. The World Communion of Reformed Churches General Council was near its end after 10 days. It had convened for the first time since 2010; on this occasion in ...
The 2017 Synod meeting begins on Friday 8 September with opening worship at St Michael’s Uniting Church in Collins Street Melbourne. Synod resumes for business the following day at the Box Hill Town Hall.
There will be 295 ordained and lay members representing the eight presbyteries attending for the five days and three nights. They ...
Australia may be an increasingly secular country according to the recent census, but author Kara Martin believes Christians can still practice their faith in the workplace in creative ways.
In her new book, Workship: How to Use Your Work to Worship God, Ms Martin documents stories of Christians who integrate faith into their daily occupations.
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The next Moderator of the VicTas synod will be elected at the Synod 2017 meeting in September. Synod members will choose between three moderator-elect nominees: Rev Sani Vaeluaga, Rev Denise Liersch and Rev Stan Clarke.
Find out a bit more about the three nominees with this Q&A.
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On a first reading of Rev Isabel Greenhill’s Friday Forum post, I mentally congratulated her for adopting a conciliatory tone towards people who do not share her position. But on a more careful reading, I became aware that I was subtly classed with the uncompassionate, bottom-of-the-class theologians who simply don’t get it yet.
