It is clear from a number of inaccuracies in Christopher Pearson’s piece ‘Questions over God’s place in the Dreaming’ (The Weekend Australian July 25) that he was not present at the meeting of the Uniting Church 12th Assembly last week. The Assembly considered a recommendation from a special Task Group to include a new Preamble to the Uniting Church Constitution, ...

WHEN THE financial bottom line becomes the means of determining the value of everything, education is treated as a commodity to be bought and sold. Its value is seen in its capacity to prepare a person to be a more effective economic unit in the market place. Those fields of study which are more financially productive become the most respected. ...

INDOOROOPILLY UNITING Church played host for two events on 28 April celebrating the Queensland launch of UnitingWorld, formerly Uniting International Mission. People interested in the church’s global partnerships gathered to celebrate the mission of God and hear how to live out the Basis of Union’s call to be a church which transcends cultural, economic, and racial boundaries. UnitingWorld National Director ...

The Assembly of the Uniting Church in Australia, 2008 RRP $9 In just 39 pages, Andrew Dutney offers an easy-to-read, insightful look at the Uniting Church, in the style that many of us have appreciated since his Manifesto for renewal in 1986 and Where did the joy come from? Mr Dutney gives us a look at the history behind this ...

Uniting Church Press RRP $69.99 One of my abiding passions about the Uniting Church is our Basis of Union – our faith-statement of who we are as God’s people. It offers us a Christ-centred vision of our pilgrimage. Theology for Pilgrims gives us a very helpful look into the journey of three denominations travelling towards the union in 1977.  21 ...

Representatives from the Uniting Church in Australia have met with the Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, for the first time, speaking with him on issues of climate change, human rights and the death penalty. Meeting with the Prime Minister in Canberra on 21 October were the UCA President, Rev Gregor Henderson, National Assembly General Secretary, Rev Terence Corkin, and National Director ...

The Uniting Church National Assembly has launched a new and improved website (www.assembly.uca.org.au) together with new sites for most Assembly agencies and working groups,. “The sites have been rebuilt into a content management system that allows each of the Assembly agencies and working groups to easily maintain their sites and add and delete content so our sites are now offering ...

A special three hour meeting of Uniting Church members and ministers from across Queensland today appointed Rev Douglas Jones as the next General Secretary of the Synod. Chairperson of the Nominating Committee Rev Stuart Cameron described Mr Jones as having the ability to hold the big picture and detail in creative tension. “Douglas has not been afraid to prophetically speak ...

After a veritable deluge of letters about ads for a conference and public lecture featuring Bishop John Shelby Spong appearing in Journey, we asked the Principal of Trinity Theological College Rev Dr David Rankin to tell us where people like Dr Spong have featured in church history. IN MY VIEW, a significant number of the theological positions espoused by Dr ...

Journey asked Trinity College Director of Studies in Systematic Theology Rev Dr Geoff Thompson whether there is a place in the Uniting Church in Australia for the theology articulated by John Shelby Spong and championed by self-styled progressive Christians. FOR MANY people, the Uniting Church is a natural home for this kind of theology. Why is this so? After all, ...