Last year during the national debate about Marriage Equality in Australia, Richmond Uniting Church Council voted to display posters supporting marriage equality out the front of our church.  This decision was made knowing that not all Uniting Church’s shared this view, but out of the deep concern that some Christian churches were claiming to speak for all Christians, as they...

During the last week hundreds of people in the Uniting Church gathered for a 5 day meeting.  Some of these people were from Tasmania, some were from Victoria. Some of these people were lay people, some were ordained.  Some of these people were in the 70s, some were in the 20s, with many in between.  And some of these meeting...

In the Uniting Church we don't have hierarchies. We seek to work through decisions in a complex and powerful process of  consensus. That is, we seek to make decisions by discerning together - lay people and ordained people, old people and young people, people from regional settings and people from the city, women and men, and people from a huge variety of...