When disaster strikes
Book | Working with Disaster – Clergy & Bushfires Review by Ros Marsden “The people I met that very first night. Their faces still haunt me; burnt, covered in ash. A local family. Going up the mountain the next week.
May Letters
Concerned Ferntree Gully Uniting Church members are standing against the death penalty.
Threat to the Great Barrier Reef
The synod Commission for Mission wants Australian banks to rule out funding Indian business tycoon Gutram Adani’s Carmichael coal mine and expansion of the Abbot Point coal terminal in Queensland.
Building Faith
Rev Kenneth Alban Allen, BA, BEd, DipEd, DipRE Born Essendon Victoria 12/11/1932, died Mornington Victoria 19/12/2014 Compiled by Dr David Allen Ken, an ordained Uniting Church minister, spent the majority of his working
Partnership of faith
Rev Dr Mele Fakahua –Ratcliffe and Rev Stephen Ratcliffe, with their staffs of office, greeting the congregation after their induction.
Women lead protests
Rallies will be held throughout Australia to protest against the federal government’s decision to end funding to remote Indigenous communities.
Indonesia’s executions – a personal response
By Penny Mulvey We have all become voyeurs to the grief of the families of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, and the six other people who were executed overnight in Indonesia.
United in our Demand for Mercy
Moderator Dan Wootton has joined with other leaders of the Uniting Church in calling for an end to the death penalty in Indonesia and throughout the world.
Prayers of hope for Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran
Myuran Sukumaran has produced several haunting self-portraits in recent days after learning he and others will be executed this week.
Nepal Earthquake Emergency Relief
Image: ACT Alliance Uniting World is calling for donations to its Emergency Contingency Fund to help communities devastated by the recent Nepal earthquake. The 7.
Marriage the highlight of Max’s war experience
Ask Max Wells what his best memory of serving in World War Two is and the answer is pretty simple. “I am sure it was when you were given (a month’s) leave to get married (in May 1944),” his wife, Val, chimed in.