ANDREW LEE, a farmer in Fernlees, near Emerald, is one of the stars of Mission Stories, the Queensland Synod’s new DVD discussion resource. Mr Lee takes us behind the scenes of a three week trip to Papua New Guinea with teenagers and their parents. On returning to Queensland after a two year stint in Papua New Guinea, working alongside local ...

GROUPS ALL over the State have been participating in Together on the way, enriching community workshops with a view to developing a statement of purpose and values as part of the process of discerning the future vision for the Uniting Church in Queensland. North Queensland Presbytery Minister and Chairperson Rev Bruce Cornish said the Presbytery Leadership Team had worked through ...

Journey looks at Brian McLaren’s second question that is transforming the church: the question of biblical authority. THEOLOGIAN AND Brisbane based Uniting Church minister Rev Peter Lockhart said the Basis of Union boldly states that the Uniting Church “has received the books of the Old and New Testaments as unique prophetic and apostolic testimony, in which it hears the Word ...

OVER THIRTY years ago the Uniting Church in Australia embarked on what could have been a remarkable journey, but has it abandoned its original course? It is now a shell of its former self, like so much Liberal Protestantism throughout the West. The past decade has witnessed the Uniting Church rid itself of any prophetic vocation it might once have ...

O perfect Love, all human thought transcending, lowly we kneel in prayer before thy throne, that theirs may be the love which knows no ending, whom thou forevermore dost join in one. O perfect Love words by Dorothy Frances Blomfield Gurney, 1883 FEBRUARY IS often known as the month of love. Even from the origins of St Valentine’s Day the month ...

“WITHOUT EACH other we are impoverished.” Those are the words of the World Council of Churches (WCC) inviting churches to continue their journey together “as a further step towards full visible unity”, adopted at their 9th Assembly in 2006. The Uniting Church is one of the churches on a journey to unity. It is easy to forget the massive achievement ...

THE JOURNEY letters section continues to have lively discussion in response to our February edition Who is Jesus? and the review of Who on Earth was Jesus? a book by Quaker and humanist author David Boulton. Mr Boulton was in Australia in September to speak at the SoFiA conference in Toowoomba. Journey spoke with Mr Boulton as well as Centenary ...

Zeus Publications, 2009 RRP $34.95 Reviewed by Bill Adams.   The very title of God and Caesar quickens the pulse and sends the blood pumping. We think of all the confrontations, the strong encounters, the power struggles in times past, between church and state, and in the present day. Rather than deal only with the ideas and concepts the title ...

AS I WRITE this I am preparing to travel to Sydney to attend the 12th Assembly of the Uniting Church in Australia. At the forefront of my mind are the questions, “How will this Assembly impact upon our life in Queensland?” and “How is it relevant to our current financial situation?” I was heartened to read the article about our ...

SOMEONE RECENTLY recalled my first induction as Moderator in 1989 and that I’d said something like it was important that people read not only their Bibles, but the Fitzgerald Report – and discover what each had to say about the other. It was not an entirely original statement. Swiss theologian Karl Barth, in the midst of the turmoil of World ...