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.
For the past seven years, the Uniting Church’s Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) program has provided pastoral training to minsters, lay people and students.
The program is offered through the synod’s John Paver Centre and run in collaboration with the Centre for Theology and Ministry. Participants come from a variety of work backgrounds – prisons, forensic psychiatry, schools, aged care and ...
When long-time Burnie Uniting Church member Mavis Rowlands was informed she had been successfully nominated for an Order of Australia Medal (OAM), her first instinct was to not accept it.
However, noticing how much effort had been put into preparing the nomination Mrs Rowlands agreed to accept the medal.
The recognition was for her service to conservation, youth and to ...
Sometimes it is easy to forget that when it comes to putting meat on the bones of faith-filled missional activity, children can be just as effective, and committed, as their elders.
At the Kingston Uniting Church, about 15 km south of Hobart in Tasmania, that lesson is clearly expressed.
One Nation it seems is growing in respectability.
Tony Abbott has called Pauline Hanson a “voice of responsibility”, which marks something of a change of tune considering he once helped fund a prosecution that put her in jail.
Senior Liberal frontbencher and Howard era heavyweight Arthur Sinodinos also said that One ...
For the 25th year, Melburnians have united to support families and individuals facing crisis, donating 47 tonnes of food and essential items to Wesley Mission Victoria’s annual Food for Families appeal.
Thanks to the generosity of 234 workplaces, 99 schools and kindergartens and 152 individuals, more than 3,000 donation boxes and bags were filled with a range of items ...
One thing that young people of different faiths often have in common is a concern over how religious labels define and limit the way that others see them.
This was a theme that emerged as speakers representing Aboriginal spirituality, Islam, Christianity, the Baha’i faith, Judaism and Buddhism addressed a meeting of 30 people who gathered on ...
Valentine’s Day came two days early to Western Heights Uniting Church this year, with the local minister demonstrating the love of God in the most profoundly personal manner by letting someone else give the sermon and perform the sacred rituals.
This is, of course, very appropriate when it is the minister’s wedding day.
This article by Rev Dr Chris Buddon marks the ninth anniversary of the National Apology over the Stolen Generations. Today also marks the start of Closing the Gap Week for federal parliament, during which Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull will deliver the annual report on Indigenous disadvantage.
One of the difficult things for us to acknowledge in this country is the racism that has underpinned our ...
The ethical investing arm of the Uniting Church, UCA Funds Management, has called on Australia’s four big banks to immediately stop credit cards being used for online gambling after the country’s major banking association said it would support laws to ban the practice.
The Australian Bankers’ Association (ABA) Executive Director of Retail Policy Diane Tate told the Payments Compliance ...
A new competition aims to get preachers talking more about the way faith interacts with people’s work lives.
The Uniting Church’s Creative Ministries Network (CMN) Congregation is inviting preachers from any Christian denomination to submit original sermons that “advance a theologically sound vision of work and faith” to their congregations during Lent.
