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Faith and fairness in Tolpuddle

QLD Synod Webmaster — Sun, 03 May 2015 00:00:30 +0000

After see-sawing for a couple of years, from 2016 we’re back to celebrating Labour Day in May. It got me thinking about the church’s connection to the union movement. One of our founding tradition’s connections goes back to Tolpuddle, in Dorset, England. In the early 1800s, there was a trend of consolidation of land holdings ...

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Reclaiming our empty palaces

QLD Synod Webmaster — Mon, 02 Mar 2015 04:00:02 +0000

The problems facing the Uniting Church are common to many denominations around the world, and there is much we can learn from how they are responding, writes Rev Orrell Battersby. At the 31st Synod we received some sobering statistics—attendance in the Uniting Church across Australia is in sharp decline. The prediction: continued decline. The problem: ...

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