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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
