The Long Road to Reconciliation
STUART MCMILLAN It’s Reconciliation Week again. This year we’re remembering some big milestones. Fifty years since the referendum that included First Australians in the census.
Dying with dignity Bill fails in Tasmanian parliament
For the third time in a decade, the Tasmanian parliament has rejected a Bill that would have allowed adults to voluntarily end their lives, under certain conditions, with a lethal drug.
Piecing together life stories
SYNOD’S Victorian Archives is making it easier for those who were in the care of church-affiliated babies and children’s homes to find out more about their past.
Closing chorus for printed version of Together in Song
There will be no new printings or editions of Together in Song (Australian Hymn Book II), the hymn book most widely used in the Uniting Church.
Give them a fair go, Mr Dutton
The President of the Uniting Church in Australia Stuart McMillan has condemned as ‘inflammatory’ and ‘deplorable’ comments made by federal Immigration Minister Peter Dutton.
Rock for reconciliation
Some of Australia’s best Indigenous singers will take to the stage at Narana on Saturday 3 June for the third instalment of Narana Unplugged.
Pope fiction
Review by TIM LAM TV | THE YOUNG POPE | M In the 2000-year history of the Roman Catholic Church, there has never been a Pope quite like Pius XIII, the fictional pontiff played by Jude Law in the new HBO series The Young
Yes, poor people have mobile phones
CATH TAYLOR The moment I spot the mobile phone I flash a look at our photographer.
Called back to ministry
Rev Dr Kenneth Carlyle Dempsey 30 June 1934 – 25 May 2017 The first born child of Rev R (Carl) Dempsey and his wife Lillian, Ken spent much of his childhood in country NSW Methodist circuits.
Believe it or not
Review by MATTHEW JULIUS BOOK | DISBELIEVING DISBELIEF: HOW THE NEW ATHEISTS MAKE ATHEISM UNBELIEVABLE | PHILLIP BROWN (ED.
A new era in Keeping Children Safe
DAVID SOUTHWELL The Vic/Tas synod’s new Keeping Children Safe policy will be available to download this month, along with a number of resources to help implement it.
Union not an easy step for many congregations
On 22 June 1977 the inauguration of the Uniting Church in Australia was telecast live nationally on ABC television. An amazing thought in this changed media landscape.