A glimpse into the despair of detention
HELEN STAGOLL When I visited a Melbourne asylum seeker detention centre recently, I was not allowed to take in a bunch of flowers for my friend’s birthday. No reason given except ‘it’s policy’.
Historic truth
Review by Suzanne Yanko Book | The embarrassed colonialist | Sean Dorney Sean Dorney is an Australian journalist who has probably been the most trusted voice on Papua New Guinea affairs since he arrived in Moresby as a
Group has a thirst to support Lenten appeal
NIGEL TAPP PROCEEDS from the second CD produced by Hobart music group Thirsty Ground will aid the work of the synod’s Lenten Offering appeal.
Family ministry
Rev Ronald Alister Blackwood 23 August 1919 – 12 June 2017 Ron Blackwood was born in Dimboola, Victoria on 23 August 1919.
Stranger than fiction
Review by Nick Mattiske Book | The Stranger in the Woods | Michael Finkel One day in the 1980s a young man fed up with the modern world abandons his car by the side of the road and disappears into the woods of the northe
Presbyteries in transition
PENNY MULVEY Sixty representatives from across the presbyteries and synod gathered at the Centre for Theology & Ministry last month to hear about progress relating to future plans for the presbyteries.
Letters to the editor – July 2017
Responding to terror Hear, hear! to the views expressed by the editor in regard to using the awful terrorist attacks in Manchester as a means to vilify those seeking to escape bombings and war to find refuge in a safer p
Church agencies step up humanitarian response
UnitingWorld has been selected to be part of a new Australian government partnership to better equip Pacific communities to manage natural disasters.
Plenty of goodwill served up at Ramadan dinner
The congregation at St Thomas Uniting Church in Craigieburn shared an iftar dinner with members of the local Muslim community.
The youthful spirit of Pentecost
What can the Uniting Church do to better engage with young people?
With courage let us all combine
UCA Assembly President Stuart McMillan said the federal government’s decision to award $70 million in compensation to asylum seekers kept in offshore detention once again showed what a moral failure the policy has been.
Op shop rises from the ashes
The Bridgewater Gagebrook Uniting Church has re-opened its op shop doors again after the building was severely damaged by a deliberately lit fire on 6 April.