Stopping dirty money

The synod Justice and International Mission (JIM) unit has been encouraging Uniting Church members to be part of a campaign to stop money stolen from developing countries being shifted into Australia.

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Public lecture: Marketization of the Bible

Image by el vacano on Flickr There is a Green Bible, a Gay and Lesbian Bible, an African Bible, an Amplified Bible, a New American Bible, a Youth Bible, a Bible in Cockney and a People’s Bible.

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Growth in dementia needs cannot be ignored

Image courtesy of homecaregiverstore.com on Flickr UnitingCare Australia has voiced concern over the recent  abolition of the Dementia and Severe Behaviour Supplement.

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Bust the Budget - Parliament House

VIC Workers March on Parliament

In a sharp contrast to the largely middle-class post-budget marches and student protest rallies in Melbourne and other Australian capitals, today’s march from Trades Hall to Parliament House was made up principally of un

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Tribute to a friend

Rev Ojitha Goonetilleke More than 200 people attended a farewell lunch for Rev Ojitha Goonetilleke (pictured), who retired from full-time ministry at the end of April.

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The evil of ‘othering’

                  It’s part of human nature to secure identity by rivalry, building barriers, erecting implacable oppositions of ‘us’ and ‘them’.

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News of the Royal Commission

Stuffed bear made by the Pentridge toy makers prison The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Abuse will deliver an interim report towards the end of this month.

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Faith in a pluralist society

Miroslav Volf By Penny Mulvey Imagine a world in the not-so-distant future where Christians and Muslims and people of other faiths and no faith work together, holding to their own distinct perspective, but listening and

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Footy pride

Jennie Gordon (centre) delivered a reflection before the Gay Pride match in Yarra Glen last month.

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