Uniting Church in Australia

The Uniting Church in Australia has signed on to the following statement endorsed by a diverse group of civil society organisations calling for an urgent price on pollution.

'We are a diverse group of leading civil society organisations that represent a broad cross-section of Australians.

We believe that Australia urgently needs a price on pollution as the most cost-effective way to reduce our greenhouse pollution and its impacts on our climate, health, environment, and security...

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As I write this in the immediate and confusing aftermath of the recent election, my thoughts turn to the qualities and values I felt were missing from the election campaign. In the coming weeks and months the pundits will dissect the regional swings and local issues that were contributing factors in the national result but my sense is that Australians were looking for something deeper and more substantial from the campaign. We were looking for true leadership.

Rev. Alistair Macrae, President of the National Assembly of the Uniting Church in Australia, has today called on Uniting Church people to consider their vote carefully and prayerfully this Saturday.

Charles Sturt University and United Theological College, together with Hannam Univeristy in Korea, launched a joint Master of Theology Degree which students are taught in English and Korean.

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It is easy to denigrate politicians. With the most participants in this country, denigrating politicians could be said to be our national sport! But what if the old saw is true that we get the politicians we deserve? What does the state of political discourse in the current federal election reveal about us citizens? We criticise our leaders for their apparent addiction to focus groups without considering that those groups are full of people with faces and names and they live next door.

The Kairos document is the Christian Palestinians’ word to the world about what is happening in Palestine. In this historic document, the Palestinian Christians declare that the military occupation of their land is a sin against God and humanity. True Christian theology is a theology of love and solidarity with the oppressed, a call to justice and equality among all peoples.

In solidarity with Palestinian Christians, the NCCA has asked its member Churches and the wider Australian community to consider a boycott of goods produced by Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

The NCCA’s aid agency, Act for Peace, will to assist churches that need information to help them consider the issues around a boycott and support advocacy initiatives calling for a just peace as all parties work toward an end to the conflict

Click here to download the Kairos document.