Church Council Nominations are open - this could be you! There are so many behind the scenes ways people contribute to the life of our church community. Church Council is one of these. Yes, it’s about providing governance and oversight of the many activities that happen at Brunswick Uniting Church, but really it’s about [...]
We are, once again, looking forward to sharing the story of Jesus’ nativity through the Christmas Eve Pageant. Two years ago Geoff Thompson observed that ‘our pageants always have an edge be it through the use of satire, comedy, contextual imagination or social critique. Those edges have the effect of disorientation, a defamiliarizing of [...]
A blog by Tammy Preston from Intergenerate exploring the question 'Can the generations truly learn from each other?' In the introduction Tammy writes 'I often hear it said that when intergenerational interactions take place, the adults are teaching the younger generations and not receiving much spiritual teaching themselves. This is such a roadblock toward [...]
For many years, Brunswick Uniting Church had a time during the service known as ‘with the children’ – a time set aside to specifically involve children in worship in a more meaningful way before they went out to the Sunday morning program activities. Recently, we have changed this time to being called ‘early word’. [...]
In response to his sermon 'Balancing our Spiritual Diet' Dan is posting weekly resources that may be useful to us in our daily spiritual walk. The series begins with Lectio 365. Lectio 365 offers two daily devotionals, morning and evening. It is led in the Jesuit style, with a guided reflection on a Bible [...]
In the circles of parents and young people that I move in there’s been a lot of talk about neurodivergence. While I am no expert and feel a bit fraudulent in even writing this, it has led me on a bit of a journey to find out more and how to better support people [...]
... a Term 3 online course, with subsidy available This Term 3 Course being offered by the eLM Unit at Pilgrim Theological College is an introductory online Unit for anyone who wants to know more about the New Testament. Dates are from Monday 15 July to Monday 30 September. Its very accessible at only [...]
One of the things I often hear about BUC is that people love the sense of community. Often there are many notices during worship from people wanting to invite others into a shared community life. It is a busy place with diversity in age, ability, gender, sexuality to name a few. Diversity always has [...]
Our congregation has been touched by death recently. We remember Wesley Trigg, a retired Uniting Church minister who was deeply loved and who tuned into the live stream each week. Hannah Friebel who spent time at the student house and tragically took her own life and Tom Whelan, father to Shawn and father-in-law to [...]
What are the questions you are asking at the moment? Perhaps you are not even aware that you are asking questions. When we sit with a question that is not easily answered, our brain wants to go into problem solving mode. Most of us are uncomfortable to varying degress with ‘the unknown’ and so [...]