When Peter Chapman arrived as minister at Church in the Marketplace in bustling Bondi Junction he decided to spend time sitting outside his church. It’s busy there opposite the bus/rail interchange in the Oxford street mall. “When I arrived last year,… Continue Reading
Andrew Gunton, the Moderator (head) of the Uniting Church in Australia’s (UCA) Queensland Synod (state council) has provided an explanation of the reasoning that led to withdrawing recognition of Dr Hedley Fikiki as a minister in the church. The UCA… Continue Reading
Members of the Mooloolaba Christian Church in on the Sunshine Coast Queensland have issued a statement backing their minister Hedley Fihaki who has been removed as a Uniting Church Minister by the Queensland Synod Standing Committee. “Mooloolaba Christian Church will… Continue Reading
Hedley Fihaki, National Chair of the Assembly of Confessing Congregations within the Uniting Church in Australia (ACC) a group of evangelicals, is himself no longer a minister within the UCA. On Tuesday he received an email informing him that “the… Continue Reading
An Open Letter calling for Bipartisan Poker Machine Reform in NSW. From: Stu Cameron, CEO and Superintendent, Wesley Mission and Sandy Grant, Anglican Dean of Sydney To: The Hon. Dominic Perrottet, MP, Premier of NSW, The Hon. Chris Minns, MP,… Continue Reading
Paul Clark on being an evangelical who wants to stay IN the Uniting Church. Not a year seems to go by without the Uniting Church becoming the punching bag of conservatives for seemingly weird or heretical positions taken on an… Continue Reading
A “Future Directions for the People of God” proposal to the 2021 Synod of the Uniting Church NSW/ACT gives the church attendance figure of 21,000. (The Synod wants to increase it to 30,000) The NSW and ACT are a third… Continue Reading
A sweet memory from Stu Cameron, CEO and Superintendent of Wesley Mission, Sydney A friend emailed me this photo a couple of days ago. It’s a picture of a fibro house located in Munda in the Western Province of the… Continue Reading
“Two integrities is a lie” Uniting Church Conservatives say Continue Reading