Forty years ago, I was in the last six months of a three-year research project at St the Sunday of Epiphany – Geoff Stevenson Vincent’s Hospital in the Department of Immunology. The research area was atopic disease – allergies, eczema etc. Although we were building on work my boss did overseas, it didn’t progress far due to a variety of factors, not least the emergence of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Sydney.
We were recently captivated by the mission of Artemis 2 and the exploration of space and the dark side of the moon. Even though this was very near to Earth, it reveals that vast distance beyond our imagining, along with the vastness of space that is beyond our comprehension. Images of space from Artemis 2 and many other sources, including the James Webb telescope provide images of the universe that are staggering. I look with fascination but cannot comprehend the immensity of everything I am viewing.
I’ve been reading a crime fiction novel by Michael Connolly. It is the latest in the ‘Lincoln Lawyer’ series, so named because as a criminal defence lawyer Mickey Haller rode in Lincoln Town cars and used them as his mobile office. Mickey is now in civil law, prosecuting cases for those treated unfairly. He is looking to make the world a better place and finds himself in a David and Goliath battle with a large IT company that is the subject of a $1 billion takeover. The company has AI apps that are aimed at young people, teenagers.
Kon Karapanagiotidis grew up in a small town in rural Victoria, the son of an immigrant family – refugee grandparents who had escaped war and struggle in their homeland. He was different in a school where everyone else looked, sounded and acted the same. His name was long and difficult to say – too many letters and syllables.
As I wandered the city streets, I pondered. I pondered the decline of the engagement in religious life in our fair land. I explored, in my mind, the ways in which our world has shifted these last several decades.
If you don’t know where you are going, you will not know the way. Fairly obvious I suppose but the reality for most people in life. Do we know where we’re going? Do we know the way to where we think we are heading?
Will Giacometti did not come to service through a single defining moment. He came to it the way most things that last tend to arrive, quietly, gradually, and through the people around him.
There was a passion at Gungahlin to bring people together and drive the young people’s ministry forward, and someone had to be the one driving this. That person was Narelle Dodd.
When the Bill Crews Foundation’s kitchen in Ashfield went offline for renovations, thousands of Sydney’s most vulnerable people still needed to eat. A Jewish community kitchen in Bondi made sure they did. Every single day
This year marks a season of celebration for the Armenian Evangelical community in Australia and around the world.
Uniting Financial Services (UFS) has been recognised at the 2026 Infosys Finacle Innovation Awards as the winner in the category of Transformation Excellence.
Members of five Mid North Coast congregations gathered for a combined Trinity Sunday service at Coffs Harbour Uniting Church, welcoming the Moderator, Rev. Faaimata Havea Hiliau.
There is a particular kind of person who does not wait to be asked. Loraine Holley is one of them.
When Maya* fled Syria with her children, she arrived in Jordan carrying more than a few belongings. She carried uncertainty. Fear. And the overwhelming responsibility of trying to rebuild a life from nothing.
"Many of those people may never know the full impact of their faithfulness — the ways their teaching, encouragement, welcome, and witness have shaped lives and ministries beyond what they could have imagined."
Uniting Financial Services (UFS) and its software partner Infosys have been nominated for two awards for the migration from the Temanos platform to Finacle in May 2025.
This was the question put to participants in the Moderators workshop with UCA school prefects.
Recently the congregations of Carlingford and West Epping Uniting Churches became the new entity of Carlingford-West Epping Uniting Church and on March 29.
Lifeline was the first telephone crisis support service established in Australia in 1963 by Wesley Methodist Minister Rev. Alan Walker.
Why are you crying? Because we will miss him. What are you going to do about it? Take off my shoes.
Uniting Financial Services is seeking to appoint two new Non-Executive Directors as the organisation enters a new season of leadership succession and strategic growth.
In May 2026, four young leaders from the Uniting Church in Australia travelled to Chiang Mai, Thailand, to take part in the Fifth Asian Ecumenical Youth Assembly (AEYA 2026) — a gathering of young Christians from across Asia united under the theme "Break Every Yoke" (Isaiah 58:6).
I am delighted to announce that Rev. Punam Bent has accepted a call from the Placements Committee to the role of Associate General Secretary for the Synod of NSW and ACT. Punam will commence in the role on August 1.
A Farewell message from Rev. James Baker