Partnering Prahran Mission
UnitingCare Prahran Mission was recently welcomed into the fold of the Cheltenham-Mentone Uniting Church community at a service marking the agency’s move to the church’s Charman Road property.
Narana: A place of pride
By Megan Graham Nicholas Boseley, cultural education manager at Narana Recent news coverage celebrating Patty Mills, who in June became the first Indigenous Australian to win an NBA championship, has been enthusiastic an
Chaplains add soul to support patients
A support program aimed at assisting patients with a mental illness at Tasmania’s North-West Regional Hospital has been recognised with a national best of care award by Spiritual Care Australia (SCA).
Thomas Maxwell O’Connor
The Rev Max O’Connor (pictured) died on 8 April 2014. Born in 1923, he spent his life as a minister in rural and urban congregations across Victoria.
Synod support for Sudanese Christian
At the time of writing, confusion surrounds the fate of a woman sentenced to death for the crime of apostasy in Sudan.
Keeping children safe
By Penny Mulvey Justice Peter McClellan AM, Chair of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, provided significant insights into the progress of the hearings when he addressed a men’s heal
Comment sought on marriage paper
A discussion paper on marriage and same-gender relationships has been prepared by the Doctrine Working Group (DWG) and is now available for comment.
The life in our years
Gus (Ansel Elgort) and Hazel (Shailene Woodley) in The Fault In Our Stars MOVIE l Fault in our Stars l M ‘It’s the life in your years not the years in your life’ could have been an alternative working title for the n
Silent witness
Diarmaid MacCulloch Credit Chris Gibbions Adelaide-Festival Alexander Cruden, that grimly indefatigable one-man biblical search-engine of the eighteenth century, … prefaced his collection of usages of the word ‘silence’
Community or competition?
Have you ever tried to break a bundle of sticks? One stick on its own can break easily, but bundled together, they become almost impossible to break.
Moderator expresses concerns
Uniting Church Moderator Dan Wootton recently wrote to Prime Minister Tony Abbott to express concern over the dismantling of the Disability Discrimination Commissioner position.