My cup… it overflows
Symbols can be very powerful. I have come to realise over the years how often food is used as a symbol of generous hospitality within the church and beyond.
Safer churches
The Uniting Church Assembly has recently changed section 5.2 of the Regulations (Pastoral Care of Members) in an effort to curb unwelcome behaviour.
Call for peace
The World Council of Churches (WCC)has called for an immediate cessation of hostilities in the Gaza Strip.
Meriam Ibrahim thanks
Meriam Yahia Ibrahim Ishag, the 27-year-old woman sentenced to 100 lashes and death for the crime of apostasy in Sudan in May, arrived in Rome on 24 July with her family.
We’ll Love Muslims 100 Years
Uniting Church leaders from across Australia are joining interfaith and ecumenical friends today in a statement of solidarity with Australia’s Muslim community. Uniting Church in Australia President Rev.
Disagreement between faiths
Image by Jesus Solana on Flickr An upcoming event at the Centre for Theology and Ministry will be looking at relationships between different faith communities.
Melbourne’s faithful gather in the aftermath of MH17
Shadows cast across the high ceiling of St Paul’s Cathedral combined with the echoing sounds of the Choir of Trinity College to create a true sense of ceremony at a Multifaith Service for Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 l
UnitingCare praises proposed funding reform
Image courtesy of Amanda K on Flickr UnitingCare Australia has commended the Productivity Commission’s Draft Report on Early Childhood Care and Learning praising proposed funding reforms.
The Bible in context: HIV and AIDS
The global HIV and AIDS epidemic has been a context of great suffering: stigmatization, death, grief, impoverishment and has left countless children orphaned.
Rising above hate
Tahira Zahir (pictured) holds coloured balloons as a symbol of community harmony. Tahira Zahir (pictured) holds coloured balloons as a symbol of community harmony in Bendigo last month.
Time to go inside
From time to time, cartoonist and poet, Michael Leunig gives thanks for the blessing of winter, where life slips through our fingers, darkness gathers and our hands grow cold. Time to go inside he says.
Game, set, match
When the Geelong East Uniting Church Tennis club (pictured) heard the news their beloved courts were to be