Reviewing our culture
A desire for goodwill to others featured strongly in the recent culture survey conducted by the Major Strategic Review (MSR).
The first impressions of an outsider
Photo by Bret Salinger By Rev Dr John G Flett As one new to the Uniting Church, I thought that I might relate my first and uninformed impressions.
Funds management seeks to make credit fairer for all
UCA Funds Management is leading a group of like-minded ethical investors and other players seeking to tidy up the payday lending and consumer leasing industries in Australia.
June Letters
Walking for justice I read the article in the May issue of Crosslight, and while I was delighted at the size of the response, and the leading of the UCA contingent by President Andrew Dutney and Moderator Dan Wootton, th
Poem – The Dispossessed
Ring Tailed Possum – ‘Hand Drawn with Mouse’ Digital Art 2002 by Margaret Gambold.
Poem – The Lonely
Central Australia Desert – ‘Hand Drawn with Mouse’ Digital Art 2002 by Margaret Gambold. By Margaret Gambold Lonely corridors they walk, defeated, the world’s lonely.
Shocking stories from the Royal Commission
Many Australians have been horrified by the stories coming out from the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sex Abuse.
Intercultural Service of Celebration
This year marks 30 years since the Uniting Church declared itself a multicultural church.
Book sale for Nepal
Nearly a month after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck Nepal, millions are still in need of humanitarian assistance. An estimated eight million people – nearly 30 per cent of the population – have been affected.
Winners and losers
Bendigo and Adelaide Bank has withdrawn a multi-million dollar court case against Crown Casino over embezzled funds. The bank pursued legal action over three million dollars stolen by former bank employee Kate Jamieson.
Humanitarian crisis
Pressure is mounting on South East Asian authorities to address the growing humanitarian crisis of refugees and asylum seekers stranded in the Andaman Sea and Straits of Malacca.
National Volunteer Week
In National Volunteer Week, the Uniting Church celebrates the contributions of all our volunteers who give up their time in service of their community. Volunteers are the lifeblood of the church.