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Fostering family fun at Stanthorpe

QLD Synod Webmaster — Mon, 03 Oct 2016 06:11:54 +0000

Sometimes little acts of hospitality go a long way to strengthening the community. Ashley Thompson talks to Granite Belt Uniting Church minister Rev Kaye Ronalds and Stanthorpe Uniting Church member Jean Pyle about their efforts to reach out to young families. Since Easter last year, the Stanthorpe congregation has been providing weekly hospitality to the ...

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Reflecting on women and the Uniting Church

QLD Synod Webmaster — Tue, 19 Jul 2016 23:19:03 +0000

Journey’s recent focus on smashing the glass ceiling in the church has forced many to confront how issues of gender, equality and theology coexist in the church. Rev Dr Geraldine Wheeler reflects on her past brushes with prejudice before Queensland inducted its first female moderator in 2011. In the Journey article “Seven ways to smash ...

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Synod adopts revised priority directions

QLD Synod Webmaster — Tue, 24 May 2016 02:27:32 +0000

After fervent discussion the 32nd Synod has passed by consensus revised priority directions for 2016–2020. Brought forward by Rev Andrew Gunton on behalf the facilitation team, the original wording of the proposal was amended to reflect the concerns of 32nd Synod members. The originally discerned top five priorities of 32nd Synod members were to “adopt ...

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Jesus feminists: Storming the old boys’ club

QLD Synod Webmaster — Sat, 12 Sep 2015 00:00:39 +0000

The dreaded “F” word: bra burnings and angry women are so last century yet the stigma around feminism remains. Ashley Thompson speaks with four Christian women reclaiming feminist values for ministry and mission. Simply put, feminism is a stand for the political, economic and social equality of the sexes. It is the belief that men ...

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September Journey now available

QLD Synod Webmaster — Fri, 04 Sep 2015 02:56:50 +0000

Jesus feminism The Uniting Church is unusual in a number of ways—one of them being its wholehearted embrace of women’s ordination. The Uniting Church has ordained women since union, as did its constituent denominations before that. We stick out among Australian churches in this regard; while other denominations ordain women, few Australian churches match the ...

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Queensland’s leading lady passes the baton

QLD Synod Webmaster — Thu, 09 Oct 2014 22:00:16 +0000

Rev Kaye Ronalds will finish her three-year term as Moderator at this month’s 31st Queensland Synod meeting. Mardi Lumsden explores what others appreciated about Kaye’s time in the role. Kaye’s term as Moderator can be characterised by a comment she made at her induction service: “We need to become better at working together and remembering ...

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Put your hands together for our church!

QLD Synod Webmaster — Thu, 09 Oct 2014 04:47:48 +0000

The trouble with the Uniting Church is that we have taken too literally the biblical principle of not letting the right hand know what the left hand is doing. Not only that, we are not good at blowing our own trumpet in the community. On the one hand, in Blackall a part-time youth worker is ...

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Give from God’s providence

QLD Synod Webmaster — Wed, 24 Sep 2014 04:00:10 +0000

I had a delightful conversation with a senior student from one of our Uniting Church schools. He is considering spending a gap year to support a community in a developing country. He thinks he would like the challenge of a cross-cultural experience. Together we chatted about options for volunteering with an Indigenous community, UnitingWorld or ...

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Number crunch: Does the Uniting Church have a future?

QLD Synod Webmaster — Thu, 12 Jun 2014 03:24:28 +0000

Data from the 2013 census of the Uniting Church in Australia has been released just in time for its 37th anniversary. It reveals an organisation facing some tough decisions. Dianne Jensen reports. Thirty-seven years down the track, Australia’s first home-grown church is facing a mid-life crisis familiar to any adult wondering where the kids have ...

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Time to change gears

QLD Synod Webmaster — Wed, 11 Jun 2014 23:03:10 +0000

When our daughter was back in Australia for her wedding in February, her new husband offered to do the grocery shopping. Sitting in front of the computer in our home he made his order online and arranged for it to be delivered to their home in London just a few hours after their plane landed. ...

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