Letters to the editor – June 2017
Ascension Day hymns What does Ascension Day mean to us in 21st century Australia? We have often seen classical paintings of this scene where Christ is rising to heaven watched by anxious or adoring disciples.
Uniting Church finds light in Dark Mofo
NIGEL TAPP Hobart arts festival Dark Mofo has always been at the edge offering art expressions whichhave, in some cases, attracted controversy. The decision this year to headline the event with the three-hour 150.
160 years at St Andrew’s Berwick
LORRAINE BAXTER More than 140 past and present members gathered at St Andrew’s Uniting Church in Berwick last month to celebrate 160 years of worship.
Fighting poverty by the book
RHONDA MATHESON-BROWNE Bookworms can purchase newly released books and raise funds for a worthwhile cause when Ocean Grove Uniting Church hosts a biannual book sale.
Age old story
Review by PENNY MULVEY PLAY | MINNIE & LIRAZ My mother, quoting my grandmother, regularly reminds her three daughters that ‘ageing is not for wimps’.
Agencies and Share ready to join Uniting
Next month UnitingCare agencies and Wesley Mission Victoria will begin operating under the name of Uniting, as they form a single organisation delivering the Church’s community services.
Windsor knots
Friday Forum Your views on the news For some the most important question of the weekend is what will the bride be wearing? The bride in question is Pippa Middleton, the younger sister of Kate Middleton who is now known
Secession a freight full proposition for church chair
King Island Uniting Church council chair Noel Cooke has some advice for Victorian premier Daniel Andrews if he really wants to get the Islanders to swap their allegiance from Tasmania.
Fight to stop Adani mine
The Indian multinational company Adani wants to build one of the biggest coal mines in the world in the Galilee Basin in Queensland.
Having budgets for breakfast but one gets a toast
PENNY MULVEY The second annual post-budget not-for-profit breakfast hosted by UCA Funds Management produced a combination of snappy media grabs and more reflective analysis on the health of Australia’s social sector.
Indonesians pray for jailed Christian governor
Indonesians throughout the world have joined in prayer vigils over the weekend in support of Jakarta’s Christian governor, who was last week sentenced to jail for blasphemy.
Test of compassion?
FRIDAY FORUM YOUR VIEWS ON THE NEWS It has been described by the Prime Minister as a policy based on ‘love’, but the federal government’s plan to impose drug tests on new welfare recipients is not receiving a lot of lov