REV DR WES CAMPBELL
On Tuesday Anzac Day, prayers for peace will be held at St Paul’s Cathedral, for the third year running.
We will remember those who said no to war. As in the past three years, we will lament the carnage in which so many young people were killed. There is an irony ...
It might have been a ‘trial run’ but the very first question at the Ask a Muslim forum held at 130 Lt Collins St on Wednesday night delved deeply into profound and potentially problematic territory.
Do Muslims and Christians worship the same God?
The relatively young Muslims, who were seated among a circle of tables with about ...
St Leonard’s Church Brighton Bayside raised the highest amount ever donated from a Pancake Day event in Victoria and Tasmania, even though they didn’t charge a cent for the 300 or so pancakes served.
Last year St Leonard’s member and retired businessman Barry Schofield decided to try something different with Pancake Day, which is put on nationally ...
Uniting Church President Stuart McMillan and members of the Australian Churches Refugee Taskforce have called for refugees on Manus Island to be transferred to Australia after shots were fired at the compound on Good Friday.
A large group of local men, including Papua New Guinea naval personnel, tried to break into the Manus Island facility on Friday ...
The President of the Uniting Church in Australia Stuart McMillan has used his annual Easter message to pray for Christian churches in the Middle East and for greater compassion in Australia for those displaced by war and conflict.
In a message recorded with Syrian refugees at Bankstown in Sydney’s south-west, Mr McMillan urged Australians of all faiths ...
I’m fond of describing the church as ‘Easter people’.
I know we aren’t quite there yet, but I find myself thinking about the whole Easter story when I think about times of change, particularly those times of change which hold the potential for transformation.
Over 300 Sri Lankans and friends of Sri Lanka gathered together at Mulgrave Community Hall on Saturday to celebrate a special Harmony Day with delicious food, inspiring speakers, beautiful music and traditional dance. It was a day of colour and movement, a day for making new friendships and celebrating the diversity of a rich shared ...
“My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” The words of the Psalmist encapsulates the cry of the desperate who feel abandoned by God. These words were uttered by Jesus in his last moments. Even he felt abandoned by God.
Job, the exemplar of a righteous and innocent man, was subject to the most ...
Thousands braved Melbourne’s stormy weather on Palm Sunday to walk in solidarity with refugees and people seeking asylum.
The mercury dropped to as low as 10 degrees celsius as Melbourne shivered through its coldest day of the year, but moderator Rev Sharon Hollis reminded the contingent gathered at Wesley Church before the walk that the suffering of ...
Share hit the road on Tuesday this week with 21 loyal supporters to witness our community service agency programs, places and people first-hand.
Donors, bequestors and Share Reps jumped on the ‘Share shuttle bus’ – departing from Parliament Station at 9am – bound for UnitingCare Harrison before travelling on to Prahran Mission.
Next week, the AFL will break a century-long tradition when it hosts its first-ever footy match on Good Friday.
The AFL believes scheduling a match on Good Friday will increase support for the annual Royal Children’s Hospital Appeal, but the decision has angered many in the Christian community who ...
Of the many New Testament accounts of Easter, I want to reflect on the story of Mary Magdalene as she walks to Jesus’ tomb lost, hopeless, grieving.
Her path would have been very different to this one, but her sense of desolation is a response we can all appreciate.
