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

Leadership for the modern Korea woman

Silvia Yang can’t escape the feeling that God has had a hand in her new role as CALD (Culturally and Linguistically Diverse) relationship officer for the Uniting Church.

Animals in our lives and in our hearts

By Rev Barbara Allen Spirituality and Creation Project Worker As we approach World Animal Day (Feast of St Francis, 4 October) it is timely to take stock and consider our animal brethren.

Noisy gongs and clanging cymbals

PENNY MULVEY Have you ever considered what a respectful conversation might sound like? This might seem an odd question if you are always respectful.

Letters – October 2016

Learning from Islam The remarks made by Senator Hanson in her maiden speech are as astonishing as they are predictable (sadly).

Writing a brighter future

Keiah knows firsthand the importance of education. An Aboriginal woman of the Yorta Yorta nation, she provides literacy support to inmates at Langi Kal Kal prison, 140 kilometres west of Melbourne.