Mission co-workers from the Methodist Church of Great Britain and Ireland Richard and Kathryn Jackson had been visiting schools in and around Sasamuqa on the south coast of Choiseul Island when the earthquake and tsunami hit and were able to give Uniting Church Overseas Aid Project Officer Jeff Kite an eye witness account of the devastation caused by the major ...

Bishop of the Central West Region Rev Rollinson Zappo was one of many killed by the tsunami that hit the Solomon Islands on Monday. A key leaders of the United Church in Solomon Islands, Bishop Zappo had travelled from his home in Gizo to Simbo Island to induct a Superintendent Minister at the local United Church. The tsunami swept through the ...

A firestorm has broken out in US evangelical circles after prominent Focus on the Family leader James Dobson and other leaders of the religious right wrote to the National Association of Evangelicals claiming attention to climate change was a distraction from "the great moral issues of our time". The letter specifically singled out the “relentless campaign orchestrated by a single ...

Churches in England and Scotland are taking part in wedding fairs this year in campaigns to encourage couples to get married and to do so by marching down the aisle rather than into a registry office. The (Presbyterian) Church of Scotland’s Shaw lands Kirk in Glasgow was to host its own wedding fair on 10 March. Resident minister, the Rev. ...

A film about the abolition of the slave trade in the British Empire 200 years ago has been condemned by some black leaders for reducing the suffering of enslaved Africans to "a mere bit part". Lee Jasper, the equalities adviser to the Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, has accused Michael Apted, director of "Amazing Grace", of "prettifying" the horror of ...

Born 21.11.1918  Died 26.11.2006 Elizabeth Craigie McChesney-Clark was born in Swinton, Scotland, the eldest child of clergyman Benjamin Scott Williams and Helen Wallace Craigie Aitchison. After spending her school days in Leeds, Elizabeth won a scholarship to attend Cambridge University. She graduated with a Master of Arts in 1940 and completed her Cambridge Teacher’s Certificate at Selly Oak College, Birmingham ...

There has been a mixed response from churches, politicians and educators to the Prime Minister’s announcement of the National School Chaplaincy Program offering $90 million over the next three years for government and non-government school communities to engage the services of a chaplain. The Federal Government has established the program to support the contributions that chaplains provide to the spiritual ...

JOURNEY ASKED people to name a favourite saint or hero. George MacLeod, the founder of Iona Community (1938), became a campaigner for nuclear disarmament. His life story continues to inspire my commitment to holistic worship, social justice and ecumenism. Duncan Macleod,Vision for Mission Advocate Padre Meraj Masihi who in the late 70s and early 80s was pastor to the small ...

Uniting Church members are invited to join other Christians in a prayer campaign this month to break the drought hurting so many Queensland families. The Moderator Rev Dr David Pitman will join Queensland Premier Peter Beattie and other Heads of Christian Churches for the launch of “Water: a Time for Prayer” at a morning prayer service at St John’s Cathedral ...

One Day Hill Publishers RRP $24.50 including postage This is a moving account of how a young man grows up in rural Tasmania and copes with the terrors of a Japanese prisoner of war camp during World War Two. Arch Flanagan has used simple words and subtle emotion to describe virtues of friendship, endurance and courage. His powers of expression are ...