Investing in our future
The Commission for Mission’s InterCultural unit is asking congregations and individuals to help 30 young people from the synod’s diverse ethnic communities travel to China for a contextual learning experience.
Appeal for flood victims
The Vic/TAS Synod has launched an emergency appeal to assist people affected by severe flooding in Sri Lanka over the Christmas period.
February letters
To discover fresh expressions of church, the UCA needs to rediscover the lost art of sacred reading.
Joyce Irene McLeod (nee Trudinger) 6 June 1924 – 11 November 2014
Joyce Irene McLeod (nee Trudinger) 6 June 1924 – 11 November 2014 Joyce Irene Trudinger’s life was exceptional.
Secrecy surrounds hunger strike
On 19 January Australians woke to the news that up to 700 detainees on Manus Island had joined a hunger strike over the Federal Government’s decision to release 50 asylum seekers into the PNG community.
The Lord is my shepherd
In an age and society where the Christian voice appears less well regarded, laughed at, likened to a bygone era of fantasy and superstition, how do we achieve cut-through to defend and advocate for the issues important t
Royal Commission researches child abuse
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has commenced the year with much energy. The first public hearing into a Uniting Church institution was announced late last month.
Social justice update
The new Victorian Government has been willing to act on a number of social justice areas Uniting Church members have been actively involved with.
Tasmania hosts UAICC National Conference
Haileigh Childs (left), from Queensland, and Donna Champion, from South Australia, at the UAICC National Conference The week-long Uniting Aboriginal and Islander Christian Congress’ 2015 National Conference began at Poat
The cost of cuts
Cuts to overseas foreign aid. As a nation, we are becoming increasingly myopic. Our focus on self-interest no matter the cost hit a new time low this week when the Federal Treasurer announced new cost saving measures.
Good Godwin! – Reactions to the Migration and Maritime Powers Bill
Images sourced from http://www.holocaustandhumanity.org/ and the Asylum Seekers Resource Centre Anyone who attempts to strengthen an argument by evoking images of Nazi atrocities risks repudiation via Godwin’s law.