The Uniting Church has backed a move by the Victorian government to expand bystander training as part of a statewide campaign to combat racism in the community.
The campaign, launched on Sunday, includes a $1 million anti-racism action plan that focuses on tackling anti-Muslim and anti-Semitic behaviour.
The government’s plan includes measures to clamp down on commuters who racially ...
Chaplains volunteering with the Victorian Council of Churches Emergencies Ministry spoke to more than 3300 people on the day of, and the days following, January’s Bourke St rampage.
VCC Emergencies Ministry CEO, Rev Stuart Stuart, said it doesn’t matter what kind of emergency it is, the human response is the same.
Australia’s only openly gay imam says that religious leaders with progressive views on sexuality need to speak up to save young lives.
“The frustration is when we keep silent about it as religious leaders,” Nur Warsame said.
Mr Warsame personally knows of four young Muslims that identified as LGBTI who have self-harmed.
The story of Alan Stafford and the Uniting Church Emergency Fencing Team came to my attention via a copy of an article in the Benalla Ensign last month. It included news that Alan, a long-time member of Benalla Uniting Church, had just received an Order of Australia Medal in the recent Australia Day Honours list “for service to the ...
Wanted: Nominations for moderator-elect.
Attributes: Practically perfect in every way (to quote Mary Poppins).
Well, OK, no one is perfect. However, the 15 points listed on the VicTas website to describe the kind of person the Church looks for in a moderator might suggest a modern-day saint or super being.
Candidates at Pilgrim Theological College and faculty staff spent five days in Tasmania last month experiencing ministry and the life of the Church in the island state.
It was the first field trip of its kind arranged with a presbytery.
Head of College Rev Dr Jenny Byrnes said it was a golden opportunity for candidates to imagine themselves in ...
EARLIER this year, visitors to Melbourne have expressed concern about the increasing numbers of homeless either sleeping rough or begging on city streets.
The issue erupted on the eve of the Australian Open, as tourists were confronted by a homeless camp at Flinders Street Station. Media outlets reported that people were witnessing drug use and felt unsafe ...
When it comes to lay preachers, Sprent Shalom Uniting Church is Miles ahead of all others.
After all, three generations of the Miles family have preached from the pulpit of the North-West Tasmania rural church since the end of World War II.
For the last 50 years, Keeton Miles has stood where his father, Gordon, previously led worship. Keeton’s daughter, ...
Straight off the red-eye flight from Manila to Nairobi, my colleague Alexandra and I were greeted by possibly the biggest smile in Africa, and not just because it stood seven-foot-high off the ground.
Rev Tut Ngoth is the deputy director of the Presbyterian Relief and Development Association (PRDA) and a key player in the peacemaker program in ...
Art lovers, architecture enthusiasts and aspiring artists will all find inspiration at this year’s Uniting AgeWell Strathdon Community Art Exhibition.
Celebrating its 14th year, the Forest Hill exhibition contributes to Melbourne’s love affair with arts and culture.
The exhibition features multi-award winning artist Jo Reitze as guest judge and internationally renowned artists Pamela Irving – whose works feature ...
The Uniting Church in Australia turns 40 this year. So it is perhaps not surprising that throughout the synod, many budding historians are unearthing the story of their own congregations and church communities.
Rev Robert Renton is the treasurer of the synod’s UCA Historical Society. The society works with the synod’s archive centre to preserve and document historic records and ...
The Uniting Church achieved two significant goals in the mid-’90s. One was the adoption of consensus decision-making as the official model for meeting procedures. The other was the apology to Aboriginal people. And both occurred during the three-year presidency of Dr Jill Tabart, the first woman to be appointed to the position.
