What's on: A tale of two cities: George Gittoes in New York and Baghdad. Macquarie University Art Gallery, September 22 to October 26. READ ON
Christian left are 'pussycats'
A
question of faith in the political process. READ ON The pussycats
are growling but no-one is listening. READ ON
Don't forget the real battlers
The
Uniting Church has urged the Liberal Party not
to forget the 3.6 million Australians living in
poverty. READ
ON Uniting
Church Assembly 2004 election resources. READ ON UnitingCare
resources. READ
ON Links to other election resources.
READ ON Christians
emerge as key constituency in Australian
election campaign. READ ON
Darlo's saint calls it a day
When
Noreen Towers knelt in the gutter to invite two
homeless men to attend her church, it was part
desperation, part inspiration. 'Child slavery must be stopped'
Child
slavery in Sudan must be stopped, says Bishop
Mvume Dandala, general secretary of the All African
Council of Churches. READ
ON A Southern Sudan leader has
called on the Australian Government to step
up the number of Sudanese refugees allowed
into Australia. READ
ON Can we resettle more
young refugees? READ
ON The 'lost boys' of
Kakuma need help. READ
ON A refugee's life is hard
-- a slave's life is harder. READ
ON
Religion is far from dead
If
the past few years have made anything clear, it
is that religious belief still matters to many
people. It still divides worshippers fundamentally
and can still rouse a few of them to levels
of fanaticism at odds with what their faith
purports to teach them. READ ON
Irish dancing and gospel preaching
On
August 24, the Uniting Church in New South Wales
lost one of its oldest ministers, the Rev. William
J. ("Jock") Steele. READ
ON
Woman also was created in the
image of her Maker
On
the basis of a few isolated biblical texts, Sydney
theologians claim that women cannot be bishops
because they are eternally subordinate to men
in the church and in the home. READ
ON
A
free market in religion
"I've
sat on lots of Church committees, and all the
decisions they make are all based on strange things
like whether they've got indigestion or not,
and who wasn't there." READ
ON
Push
for ATM gaming ban
The
leader of the Uniting Church in Victoria and Tasmania,
Reverend Sue Gormann, called on both major political
parties to ban the machines for all gaming
venues. READ
ON
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