Games’ glory

Amy Cure with Central Coast Mayor Jan Bonde at the Penguin Uniting Church hall following her World Championship community celebration earlier this year.

Learning Theology from Terry Eagleton

lewishamdreamer on Flickr Terry Eagleton is a leading British intellectual. Still going at the age of 71, he is now Professor of Literature at Lancaster University.

A lifeline

Illustration by Garth Jones – http://www.eldepositodelplatino.

Do not turn your face away

Over the past few months our television screens and newspapers have been filled with appalling stories of brutality visited upon children – Palestinian children dying in the Gaza Strip; children butchered by members of t

Watchfulness

elinnan1 on flickr Earlier on in my term as Moderator, I was given a book by a retired Uniting Church minister entitled, ‘Violence and Christian Spirituality – An Ecumenical Conversation’, edited by Emmanuel Clapsi

The problem with porn

By Penny Mulvey Pornography is an artificial digital drug which is having a dramatic impact on the male brain, a Christian neuroscientist told a Melbourne seminar in June.

Suffer the little children

By Penny Mulvey I sat in County Court 3 level 3 for several days in August listening to victims and leaders and officials of the Catholic Church give evidence before three of the five commissioners appointed by the Fede

Release the Golan 45

The Uniting Church in Australia has called for the immediate and safe return of 45 Fijian peacekeepers taken captive in the Middle East.

One small step forward on children in detention

The Uniting Church in Australia has welcomed an announcement by the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection that some children in detention will be released into the community, and asked for reassurances on the co

A welcome rejection of bigotry

The Uniting Church in Australia has welcomed the Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s announcement that he is taking proposed changes to the Racial Discrimination Act off the table.

Uniting Church condemns abuse of asylum seekers

Rev Elenie Poulos The Uniting Church in Australia has strongly condemned the continuing and systematic abuse of asylum seekers trying to reach Australia by boat and those being held indefinitely in unsuitable offshore de