The vocal and well-resourced campaign to vote ‘no’ in the upcoming same-sex marriage postal survey is harmful and does not represent the majority view of Christians, an advocacy group claims.
A small group gathered at Brunswick Uniting Church in Melbourne’s inner north on Friday last week for an Australian Christians for Marriage Equality campaign launch, which followed ...
It took me awhile before I finally found and bought my dining table. My specifications were: it must be round and big enough for at least eight people. A round table is much easier to share food (the Chinese usually place all the food in the centre of the table and share). By the way, I ...
John Davey offers a simple explanation of why he won the 3km open water freestyle gold medal in the 80 to 84-year-old age category at the FINA World Masters Swimming Championships held in Budapest, Hungary earlier this month.
“The longer it is the better I go,” Mr Davey said.
VicTas Moderator Rev Sharon Hollis joined with the Anglican Archbishop of Melbourne on Tuesday night to launch a historic ecumenical agreement between the Uniting and Anglican churches.
Weaving a New Cloth is the first agreement signed between the two churches in nearly 30 years.
The document outlines opportunities for shared hospitality, mission and witness between the two churches.
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A leading social researcher says that if, as a new report argues, the Great Australian Dream home ownership continues to exclude many younger and poorer people it will have profound effects on treasured notions of Australia as an egalitarian place of the fair go with strong grassroots communities.
Mark McCrindle, who heads social research firm company McCrindle, ...
The President of the Uniting Church in Australia Stuart McMillan has condemned plans to cut federal government support from a group of asylum seekers living in the Australian community.
Widespread media reports suggest that several hundred asylum seekers transferred to Australia from offshore detention for medical reasons will be placed on new category ‘Final Departure Bridging ...
Crosslight and the communications teams from Synod of Victoria and Tasmania took home three gold awards from the Australasian Religious Press Association on Saturday night in New Zealand.
Synod communications director Penny Mulvey and Crosslight editor Deb Bennett attended the presentation held in Auckland to accept the gold awards for Best Feature Multiple Authors, for Best Review and ...
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 ...
