The legacy of Augustine

Review by Nick Mattiske BOOK | ON AUGUSTINE | ROWAN WILLIAMS Born in 354 AD, Saint Augustine was a modern thinker, relentless in his inquiring, and insightful on the formation of the self, traits that endear him to the s

Letters home

Review by Renate Howe BOOK | DEAR FAMILY: LETTERS FROM ARNHEM LAND 1962-1966 | BETH GRAHAM How fortunate that these letters, written 50 years ago while Beth Graham and her husband Leigh were Methodist missionaries at Yir

Looking to the future

TIM LAM The future of the Uniting Church was on show at the 2016 National Young Adult Leaders Conference (NYALC) held on the Gold Coast in July.

Synod Snaps – October 2016

Families worker Corinna Fong (fourth from left) was commissioned as a Lay Preacher at Surrey Hills Uniting Church.

Commitment to service

The synod recently farewelled legal counsel Peter Shepherd following 17 years of dedicated service.

Reasonable to believe

Review by David Southwell BOOK | BEYOND BELIEF | HUGH MACKAY Beyond Belief is both a survey of contemporary Australian approaches to spirituality and a polemic tract outlining the author’s view of how God, Jesus and the

Take your best shot to fight slavery

You can perfect your table tennis backhand topspin drive any time of the day or night during the annual Ping-Pong-A-Thon being held this month at the High Street Road Uniting Church in Mt Waverley to combat human traffic

Always ‘doing something’

Deaconess Rae Quick 19 August 1922 – 16 July 2016 Rae Quick and her younger brother Ian grew up in Gippsland and were part of the church communities in the towns where their parents Jack and Dorothy ran small busin

Uniting together

NIGEL TAPP A new single board will assume governance responsibility for 22 Uniting Church community service agencies from Monday 3 October. The emerging organisation will be known as ‘Uniting’.

Join the conversation about sovereignty and treaty

In 2015, the 14th Assembly of the Uniting Church in Australia agreed to support Constitutional Recognition as “… a step towards and not a blockage to the larger issues of sovereignty and treaty”.

Practising the Art of Story

It is not obvious at first glance that Fiona Bottcher began her working life as an engineer, but words such as ‘build’ and ‘structure’ pop up in her description of what was enjoyable about the Art of Story course she com