On Christmas Day, 45 years of high profile, diverse, successful and, at times, controversial ministry came to an end when Rev Dr Francis Macnab gave his final sermon in St Michael’s Uniting Church.
In 2008 Dr Macnab made headlines for promoting a ‘New Faith’. He rewrote the Ten Commandments and, in 2010, became a literally larger-than-life figure ...
Last year, eight Australians from the Sri Lankan diaspora travelled back to their homeland on a trip organised through the synod’s Uniting Journeys program.
The Uniting Journey for Peace and Reconciliation brought together eight travellers from each of the four strong faiths in Sri Lanka – Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism and Christianity. Together, the group shared their stories and history and ...
I found my voice in this church only in the recent past. I had become frustrated with the huge gap between the rhetoric (‘the Uniting Church in Australia is a multicultural church’) and my lived experiences.
It’s not easy for some of us to find our voice and tell our stories in a multicultural church, where ...
Rev John Clarke (pictured) has joined the Uniting team in Victoria and Tasmania as the director of mission. Mr Clarke is excited by the potential of the new agency and hopes to deepen the ethos and spiritual heritage of Uniting, as well as further develop links across the Church.
In late June, Somers Camp will be celebrating 60 years of providing a fun-filled environment for children to explore issues of faith and for young people to develop leadership abilities.
Each year during the winter school break, approximately 120 campers from Grade Three to Year Nine gather on the Mornington Peninsula for worship, games, Bible study, singing, food, craft, ...
Poh Ling Yeow might be known for her quirkily inventive cross-cultural style in the kitchen but at this time of year there’s one staple she’s happy to see served up hundreds of times – the simple pancake.
The celebrity cook is ambassador for UnitingCare’s Pancake Day, with the fundraiser being held around Australia on 28 February.
Last year, Cafechurch was welcomed as one of the Uniting Church’s newest faith communities. Alister Pate, Caféchurch’s leader, is a second year candidate for Ministry of the Word and Sacrament at Pilgrim Theology College. He explained to Crosslight how the spirit of friendship helps foster faith.
People no longer go to church as they once did. Call it post-modernity, ...
Last year’s 25th annual Target and UnitingCare Christmas Appeal delivered an “amazing result” raising well over a million dollars to give those in need something to more to celebrate during the festive season.
In the weeks leading up to Christmas shoppers in Target were invited to purchase a$1 gift tag or donate unwrapped gifts under the Target Christmas tree.
The drastic shortening of Chelsea Manning’s sentence by the outgoing Obama administration in the US has brought the topic of whistleblowers back into the spotlight as Australia continues to lag in the protection and reward of those who expose wrongdoing.
Ms Manning, was sentenced to a 35-year jail sentence in 2013 for the largest leak of classified and sensitive material ...
When 89-year-old Reginald Rigby suffered a serious fall at home earlier this month and broke his left shoulder, hospital staff offered him the choice of recovering in respite care or at an aged care home.
Neither sounded appealing for Mr Rigby who wanted to remain in his own home in the town of Penguin, on Tasmania’s North-West coast, and ...
Melbourne Lord Mayor Robert Doyle says attempts by the Greens to decriminalise begging will rob the city of the only means it has to divert people off the streets and get them appropriate help.
The proliferation of beggars around Flinders St station and major CBD thoroughfares continues to be a contentious issue and Cr Doyle said that being able ...
The heatwave that left the large swathes of the northern (from a Victorian’s point of view) states sweltering this week did not spare the young and not-so-young attending Yurora 2017.
Thankfully on Tuesday the North East Victoria delegation attending the National Christian Youth Convention (NCYC) at Stanwell Tops, south of Sydney, found a nicely shaded spot to enjoy some lunch for the ...
