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Keeping hearts burning for sovereignty and treaty

QLD Synod Webmaster — Mon, 28 May 2018 23:00:20 +0000

The 14th President of the Uniting Church in Australia Stuart McMillan has urged church members to address the “unfinished business” of sovereignty and treaty for First Peoples in his final national message. Matt Pulford reports. “I started my presidency with the Yolŋu words Bala limurr roŋyirr ŋorraŋgitjlil—‘Let us return to the white ashes of the ...

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What is Space for Grace?

QLD Synod Webmaster — Tue, 26 Sep 2017 05:58:32 +0000

The expression “Space for Grace” may have pricked your ears recently in the context of our church’s continuing discernment about marriage. Uniting Church president Stuart McMillan reflects on what it actually means as the nation participates in a postal survey on legalising same-sex marriage. Space for Grace is a process that we’re using to build ...

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Diversity on show at NYALC

QLD Synod Webmaster — Sun, 07 Aug 2016 12:03:58 +0000

Over one hundred young adults from across Australia attended the 2016 National Young Adult Leaders’ Conference (NYALC) where the church’s multicultural identity was on full display. Journey reports. While there’s often talk of ageing within the Uniting Church, NYALC demonstrated that a new generation of culturally-diverse young people is coming through to enrich the identity ...

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Seven ways to smash the glass ceiling

QLD Synod Webmaster — Sun, 03 Jul 2016 00:35:34 +0000

The Uniting Church in Australia may be a leading light when it comes to gender equality in leadership but we still have some way to go. Ashley Thompson talks to five key church leaders at UnitingWomen 2016 about how we can fully annihilate the glass ceiling. Shift your thinking Colleen Geyer is the newly appointed ...

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Let them stay with us

QLD Synod Webmaster — Sun, 06 Mar 2016 22:00:27 +0000

Churches across the country grabbed headlines around the world last month by offering sanctuary to 267 asylum seekers threatened with deportation to Nauru. What does it mean, and why did they do it? Rohan Salmond reports. Baby Asha had no idea the problem she was causing the Australian government. Asha was a healthy one-year-old baby—fully ...

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Letters February 2016

QLD Synod Webmaster — Sun, 07 Feb 2016 03:00:06 +0000

Palestine resolution It was reported in the Australian, (“Uniting Church in Australia faces backlash on anti-Israel boycott”, Tuesday 15 December, page 3) that the Uniting Church Assembly had decided to embrace the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement. Uniting Church president, Stuart McMillan, said the church had “encouraged members to be informed and to consider ...

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Uniting Church welcomes national approach on redress

QLD Synod Webmaster — Tue, 02 Feb 2016 03:41:09 +0000

The president of the Uniting Church in Australia Stuart McMillan has welcomed the commitment by the Federal Government to develop a national approach to redress for survivors of institutional child sexual abuse. “This commitment by the government is important, because a nationally consistent approach has been identified as best meeting the needs of survivors,” ...

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New church for Mapoon

QLD Synod Webmaster — Tue, 04 Aug 2015 01:00:41 +0000

An appeal to replace the church at Mapoon which was burned in 1963 has been launched. Rohan Salmond writes. A new appeal to rebuild the church at Mapoon has been authorised by the 14th Assembly. Mapoon, on Cape York in far north Queensland was originally a Presbyterian mission. Bauxite was discovered in Mapoon during the ...

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August Journey now available

QLD Synod Webmaster — Tue, 28 Jul 2015 01:54:07 +0000

The real work Assembly has come to a close for another triennium, but really the work has just begun. The meeting resolved to undertake all kinds of tasks that will keep us well and truly busy over the next three years. Committees, working groups and task groups have been formed; regulations have been changed and ...

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Travelling north

QLD Synod Webmaster — Mon, 06 Jul 2015 05:30:35 +0000

From 12 July Stuart McMillan will become president of the Uniting Church—only the third lay person to ever hold the position. Matt Pulford writes. Stuart McMillan says he had a really good first week working for the Uniting Church in the Northern Territory. But the way that week started wasn’t promising. Six weeks after being ...

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