A mother’s instinct
When my baby was a few months old, I vividly recall standing in a queue at Target waiting to pay for my shopping. The girl on the register was ill-equipped for her position and everything she did was at a snail’s pace.
Books and voices that challenge
Melinda Tankard Reist Questions relating to faith, purpose and mission were recurring themes at the annual Australian Book of the Year awards held in Melbourne last month.
Changing leadership at Frontier Services
After 18 years extending John Flynn’s ‘mantle of safety’ throughout inland Australia, the national director of Frontier Services, Rosemary Young, has retired.
Ken Sumner begins role as NATISEC director
Former national chairperson and Victoria state director for the Uniting Aboriginal and Islander Christian Congress (UAICC), Rev Ken Sumner, was recently appointed the director of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Let’s talk about sex and babies
Brooke and Luca A Lenten Appeal grant last year led to an extensive research project looking at the issue of teenage pregnancy in Northern Tasmania.
Service in the service
Rev Mark Dunn on duty in the Solomons When Rev Mark Dunn decided he wanted a challenge in life, he probably had no idea he would find himself preaching to more than 1000 people in the Solomon Islands.
A taste of Taizé
Many people know the name Taizé – either the style of singing or the religious community in France where that style of singing began.
Tackling greed and poverty
The Justice and International Mission (JIM) unit of the Commission for Mission is inviting Uniting Church members to explore social justice issues at two upcoming conventions held in Melbourne and Tasmania.
MLC governance review completed
The Board of Uniting Church school, MLC, last month released the independent review of its governance structure, commissioned in the wake of the furore over its termination of long standing principal, Rosa Storelli last
UnitingCare appalled at children behind bars
Two little children stare through prison bars longing to be free. Obviously this is a staged photograph, the children pictured will safely go home with their families. But for others the reality is different.