Candidates spread their wings
A desire to give candidates for ordained ministry the opportunity to experience life outside of the bubble of metropolitan Melbourne has led to rural ministry placements becoming part of students’ formation experience.
Beer battered
Friday Forum Your views on the news For Coopers it’s been a brouhaha of almost Biblical proportions.
Helping hand for struggling families
Morning commuters passing through Southern Cross station on Friday can help reduce energy costs for vulnerable families – and it will only cost them a high-five.
Rosemary garland well deserved
Rosemary Brown’s extraordinary life of helping others leads to a question that she has trouble answering. “People ask ‘what drives me?’” she said. “I have no idea. It is just inside my gut.
UCA delivers apology and child safe pledge
Uniting Church leaders appearing before the Royal Commission into Child Sexual Abuse have pledged to survivors to make the Church the safest place it can be for children.
Royal Commission Hearing Closing Remarks
On behalf of the Uniting Church in Australia, I sincerely apologise to all children in our care who suffered sexual abuse, of any kind, in our Church, whether it happened since union of 1977 or before that in our predec
UCA gives evidence at Royal Commission
Photo by Jeremy Piper The Uniting Church in Australia will appear at a public hearing for the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuses in Sydney today.
Boldly speaking out
The theme of Wednesday’s International Women’s Day was #BeBoldForChange and 22 women from culturally diverse communities took up that challenge by speaking of their personal experience of family violence.
The boldness of the everyday
Moderator Sharon Hollis told an International Women’s Day lunch that women were engaging in bold acts every day to change the world but they weren’t necessarily the ones being publicly celebrated.
99-year-old AgeWell resident shaves head for cancer
A 99-year-old Uniting AgeWell resident has shaved her head to raise money for the Cancer Council.
Farewell to chaplains
SARAH LOCKWOOD “I have found in the last seven years I’ve been at the school that my world, my understanding of God, my understanding of what it means to be a human person in this world has just exploded.
March 2017 Crosslight now available
Uniting Church minister Rev Mark Dunn is pictured at the memorial tribute to the victims of January’s Bourke Street tragedy.