http://www.journeyonline.com.au/ News and Features from Journey en-au Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:50:59 +1000 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:50:59 +1000 PHP bruce.mullan@ucaqld.com.au osker.lau@ucaqld.com.au http://www.journeyonline.com.au/showArticle.php?categoryId=2&articleId=2437
Photo : ]]> journey@ucaqld.com.au (Lis Flynn) Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:14:09 +1000 http://www.journeyonline.com.au/showArticle.php?categoryId=2&articleId=2436
Photo : ]]> journey@ucaqld.com.au (Steph Carter) Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:06:14 +1000 http://www.journeyonline.com.au/showArticle.php?categoryId=1&articleId=2430 IN MARCH last year US president Barak Obama lifted the Bush government’s ban on embryonic stem cell research. No such ban has applied to research in Australia. While the scientific community throughout the world welcomed the decision, it has ...

Photo : ]]> journey@ucaqld.com.au (Deb Bennett is the editor of Crosslight. This article first appeared in Crosslight) Tue, 20 Jul 2010 16:20:17 +1000 http://www.journeyonline.com.au/showArticle.php?categoryId=1&articleId=2431 FAITH IS not a popular topic in this country. Perhaps that’s because we don’t know how it works. Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud was reported to say religious believers were either mad or severely neurotic. Neuroscientist Dr Peter Snow, ...

Photo : ]]> journey@ucaqld.com.au (Phil Smith ) Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:03:02 +1000 http://www.journeyonline.com.au/showArticle.php?categoryId=1&articleId=2432 IN HIS book The Four Big Shifts leading Australian social scientist Mark McCrindle said it is demography, not technology, which shapes the future. Mr McCrindle recently told a group of business, church and ministry leaders on the Gold Coast that ...

Photo : Photo by Flavio Takemoto]]> journey@ucaqld.com.au ( Phil Smith ) Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:08:22 +1000 http://www.journeyonline.com.au/showArticle.php?categoryId=1&articleId=2396 SCIENCE FICTION may be a thing of the past in future. According to physicist, physician and futurist Dr Richard Swenson the stuff of movies and novels five years ago is reality today. The author of Balance and The Overload Syndrome was keynote ...

Photo : Photo by Flavio Takemo]]> journey@ucaqld.com.au (Phil Smith) Thu, 1 Jul 2010 11:26:02 +1000 http://www.journeyonline.com.au/showArticle.php?categoryId=1&articleId=2429 LEARNING ABOUT medical missionaries when in high school was the beginning of a life-long interest and career in medicine for Albert St Uniting Church member and UnitingCare Queensland board member Dr Ian Airey, a specialist anaesthetist and ...

Photo : ]]> journey@ucaqld.com.au (Mardi Lumsden ) Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:53:13 +1000 http://www.journeyonline.com.au/showArticle.php?categoryId=1&articleId=2428 THE UNITING Church is full of highly skilled people in a number of scientific fields. Journey was privileged to speak with one such person, Kenmore Uniting Church member Dr Peter Scott. The geologist, award-winning retired teacher and Adjunct Senior ...

Photo : Dr Peter Scott climbing a glacier]]> journey@ucaqld.com.au (Mardi Lumsden ) Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:48:29 +1000 http://www.journeyonline.com.au/showArticle.php?categoryId=2&articleId=2426 THE COUNTDOWN to this year’s federal election prompted candidates to address voters in a series of forums in June. Make Poverty History along with Micah Challenge is arranging around 60 electoral forums in marginal Federal Electorates across ...

Photo : Brisbane electorate candidates, Arch Bevis, MP (ALP), Teresa Gambaro (LNP) and Andrew Bartlett (Greens) with forum attendees. Photo by Ronnie Wright/Oxfam Australia]]> journey@ucaqld.com.au (Mardi Lumsden ) Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:26:15 +1000 http://www.journeyonline.com.au/showArticle.php?categoryId=2&articleId=2423
Photo : ]]> journey@ucaqld.com.au (Judith Tokley, UnitingCare Australia ) Wed, 7 Jul 2010 15:57:39 +1000 http://www.journeyonline.com.au/showArticle.php?categoryId=2&articleId=2421
Photo : ]]> journey@ucaqld.com.au (Amy Goodhew, National Assembly of the Uniting Church in Australia) Tue, 6 Jul 2010 15:43:51 +1000 http://www.journeyonline.com.au/showArticle.php?categoryId=2&articleId=2411 A global Christian body representing 80 million Protestants is seeking to step up cooperation with the United Nations to develop a new international financial and economic order. "The need for democratic, accountable and just global financial ...

Photo : ]]> journey@ucaqld.com.au (Stephen Brown for Ecumenical News International) Thu, 1 Jul 2010 15:02:25 +1000 http://www.journeyonline.com.au/showArticle.php?categoryId=1&articleId=2427 AFTER WEEKS of fundraising and intensive preparation, a UnitingCare Health team made its first visit to the Helena Goldie hospital on Munda in the Solomon Islands in April. Team members were selected from UnitingCare Health hos-pitals to take part ...

Photo : RN Wendy Zernike presents Henry Gumi, Director of nursing at Helena Goldie Nursing College, with Resus Annie. Photo by Robyn Kidd]]> journey@ucaqld.com.au (Dot King, UnitingCare Queensland ) Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:36:02 +1000 http://www.journeyonline.com.au/showArticle.php?categoryId=1&articleId=2395
Photo : ]]> journey@ucaqld.com.au (Peter Harrison) Thu, 1 Jul 2010 14:40:48 +1000 http://www.journeyonline.com.au/showArticle.php?categoryId=2&articleId=2399 THREE FRIENDS will walk from Cairns to Stanthorpe from August to November this year to spread the word that there are 2000 languages – representing 350 million people – that still don’t have the Bible. Dave Carnell, Andrew Carnell ...

Photo : Dave Carnell (front), Andrew Sav and Andrew Carnell (back) train for their 2000km walk to raise money for Bible translations. Photo by Trent Rouillon]]> journey@ucaqld.com.au (Karyn Markwell ) Thu, 1 Jul 2010 12:25:35 +1000 http://www.journeyonline.com.au/showArticle.php?categoryId=2&articleId=2397 ON WORLD Environment Day (5 June) Caloundra Uniting Church was announced a joint winner of The Australian Religious Response to Climate Change (ARRCC) Climate Change Award for communities. ARRCC is a multi-faith network committed to taking action on ...

Photo : A stall at the Fair Trade Fair. Photo courtesy of Margaret Landbeck]]> journey@ucaqld.com.au (Journey) Thu, 1 Jul 2010 10:41:55 +1000 http://www.journeyonline.com.au/showArticle.php?categoryId=1&articleId=2410 A NUMBER of Uniting Church chaplains and lay volunteers have pioneered a new program for Queensland prisons. Kairos Prison Ministry Australia was given approval to conduct a six month pilot comprising the Kairos five day short course and the ongoing ...

Photo : Jim Fisher, left, founder and patron of Prison Fellowship Australia, Ron Nikkel, Prison Fellowship International President and Tom Scarlett, right, founding Board Member of Prison Fellowship Queensland. Photo by David Way]]> journey@ucaqld.com.au (Phil Smith ) Thu, 1 Jul 2010 14:48:38 +1000 http://www.journeyonline.com.au/showArticle.php?categoryId=1&articleId=2409 GAYE IS profoundly Deaf and, having trained at Griffith University, is a teacher of the Deaf at Caboolture State High School. With the help of the Wesley Mission Brisbane National Auslan Interpreter Booking Service (NABS) support her medical history ...

Photo : Proud mum Gaye with baby Hannah. Photo courtesy of Wesley Mission Brisbane]]> journey@ucaqld.com.au (By Aileen Wallace, Wesley Mission Brisbane ) Thu, 1 Jul 2010 14:32:55 +1000