There’s something tribal about worshipping with a few thousand other Christians on the pivot-point of the Church calendar. If ever you have wondered how hymns of praise sound when around 10 000 people belt them out, the Resurrection Sunday evening service in Toowoomba is not to be missed! The congregation sang, “How great is our God,”, as the Bible Society ...

A Code of Ethics, that will guide Lay Preachers in the exercise of their ministry, was adopted at the March meeting of the Uniting Church’s National Assembly Standing Committee. The Code of Ethics for Ministers of the Word, Deacons, Youth Workers, Community Ministers and Lay Pastors, established at the 9th Assembly in 2000, did not address the specific responsibilities of Lay ...

Blue Bottle Books RRP $3.95 Jesus, a primer for the curious, is a short booklet or tract written by an Anglican historian to give meaning to Christianity mainly for the non-churched. Each page begins with a statement and then develops the reasoning for it. For example, the first page begins with ‘belief in God is common sense’, seemingly taken from ...

When Laura Moore of Deception Bay Uniting Church signed up for a Global Walking program she knew she wasn’t going on a Christian Contiki tour. Ms Moore participated in a Short Term Exposure Trip to Manilla for three weeks just after Christmas last year. Global Walking is a program designed to be a transforming experience for the traveller. It makes ...

Bible Alive Series: Bridging Scripture and Daily Life. Vol1. Aquila PressRRP $19.95 I’ve had an interest in John Dickson ever since I was a young youth worker and arranged a tour of his then band, In the Silence through my hometown. So it was with relish that I reviewed his latest book, Vital Signs. The wisdom of James for a ...

David Fickling Books, 2006$23.95 John Boyne is an Irish author http://www.johnboyne.com  who will be speaking at the Voices on the Coast Youth Literature Festival (at Immanuel Lutheran College, Buderim) some time between 27 May and 2 June 2007 www.immanuel.qld.edu.au/voices. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is Boyne’s fourth, and most successful, book. This novel is an astonishing attempt at the ...

The Church hardly communicates with the youth of today and even in "so-called Christian countries" the majority of young people are Bible illiterate but well informed of the latest MTV programmes, says the head of the World Council of Churches. The Rev. Samuel Kobia, general secretary of the WCC, the world largest inter-Christian grouping on 14 February, addressed hundreds 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 ...

UnitingCare has announced the proposed sale of Townsville’s Wesley Hospital, to the Mater Misericordiae Hospital, which is owned and operated by the Townsville Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy. The Council of Synod and the UnitingCare Board recently approved the sale which is subject to formal approval by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), was. Uniting HealthCare has operated ...

The most recent analysis of Australian religion indicate that religion in Australia is growing and increasingly popular. Monash University academic and UNESCO Chair in Interreligious and Intercultural Relations Prof. Gary Bouma this week released his new book, Australian Soul: Religion and Spirituality in the Twenty-First Century, published by Cambridge University Press Australia. Bouma says while it’s long been assumed that ...