Borrowing God come election time
#LovesMakesAWay outside Opposition Leader Bill Shorten’s office The recent #LoveMakesAWay protests in Melbourne and Sydney, involving church leaders and activists from the major Christian denominations, shone a lig
Church camps: a chance for inclusion
Cross Cultural Mission and Ministry (CCMM) Second Gen Youth Leadership Camp The Uniting Church has a long and proud history of holding annual camps to bring members together in a spirit of community with the vision of th
Marketing Hot Air
The appearance this morning in Melbourne of a hot-air balloon resembling the statue of Christ the Redeemer from Rio de Janeiro, bearing the advertorial legend of Sportsbet, has been criticised for causing offence to the
Church questions the cost of ‘free’ speech
The Uniting Church in Australia has named racism as a sin in a strongly-worded submission to the Federal Government’s proposed changes to the Racial Discrimination Act.
A time to be born and a time to die
MOVIE l The Zero Theorem l M Terry Gilliam’s latest film opens with a naked man sitting in a chair in the middle of an abandoned church, gazing at a computer display of a vast black hole in space.
New festival in Queenscliff celebrates SacredEdges
Yirrmal Marika & Dion, Jerol and Seviro Wunungmurra The SacredEdge festival at Queenscliff Unitin
Writing a new story for Sri Lanka
Cricketers Harmony Cup By Larry Marshall The Uniting Church’s Uniting Through Faiths project was rece
New Colleges for 2015 by University of Divinity
The University of Divinity (UD) has accepted two newly reconfigured colleges – the Pilgrim Theological College (PTC) and the Trinity College Theological School (TCTS) – into the university.
UCA’s hot-button issues in brand new book
An Informed Faith, The Uniting Church at the beginning of the 21st century (ed by William W. Emilsen.) BOOK l $39.
It’s all in the name…
With the closure of the United Faculty of Theology at the end of 2014, the Uniting Church Theological College will seek an independent future under the new name Pilgrim Theological College, an accredited institution of t
Double or nothing?
Jesse Eisenberg in The Double MOVIE l The Double l M l As I watched, I wondered if I was supposed to understand what, exactly, was going on.