Dwelling

This is our final episode in the series of conversations with Uniting Church ex-Moderators. Today President Rev Sharon Hollis speaks with Susy Thomas who was Moderator for the Synod of Western Australia.

In this series, President Sharon Hollis shares conversations with ex-Moderators in the Uniting Church. This episode she speaks with ex-Moderator in the Queensland Synod Rev Andrew Gunton.

The Dwelling podcast is back! In this series, UCA President Rev Sharon Hollis speaks to ex-Moderators of the Uniting Church who have recently concluded their ministry as Synod leaders. In the second episode, the President shares a conversation with the ex-moderator for the Synod of NSW/ACT, Rev Simon Hansford.

The Dwelling podcast is back! In this series, UCA President Rev Sharon Hollis speaks to ex-Moderators of the Uniting Church who have recently concluded their ministry as Synod leaders. In the first episode, the President shares a conversation with the ex-moderator for the Synod of SA, Bronte Wilson.

The latest series of the Dwelling Podcast features interviews recorded live at the President's Conference held at Redcliffe Uniting Church from 26-29 July. In this conversation, President Rev Sharon Hollis faciliates a panel of Assembly staff. Hear more deeply about the national work of the Church from Mardi Lumsden, Donor Relations Manager, Uniting World, Rob Floyd, National Director, Frontier Services and Rev Lindsay Cullen, Assembly Associate General Secretary.

The latest series of the Dwelling Podcast features interviews recorded live at the President's Conference held at Redcliffe Uniting Church from 26-29 July. In this conversation, President Rev Sharon Hollis speaks to Pastor Samantha McDonell from UnitingCare Queensland's Connect100 Program which emerged from a desire for the relationships and shared mission between congregations and agencies to be restored and renewed. It includes special guest, Queensland Moderator, Rev Andrew Gunton.

The latest series of the Dwelling Podcast features interviews recorded live at the President's Conference held at Redcliffe Uniting Church from 26-29 July. First up is this conversation with UCA President Rev Sharon Hollis and Wakka Wakka woman and Aboriginal Christian leader Brooke Prentis. The conversation took place in the second part of the conference open to the whole Church with the theme, "All of this is Us". It followed the morning worship in which Brooke preached on the parable of the Good Samaritan and love of neighbour, posing the challenge that we are only ‘all of us’ as First and Second Peoples together.

Find out more about the President's Conference in our coverage here: https://uniting.church/2023-presidents-conference-wrap/

As we mark a time of national prayer through Uniting in Prayer, this series on the Dwelling podcast features Uniting Church President Rev Sharon Hollis in conversation with people about prayer: how we understand it, how it shapes us and informs our ministry, what sustains our prayer lives and how we might begin to or return to prayer. This week, President Rev Sharon Hollis speaks with Anne Pate, Missional Spirituality Pastor at Northcote Uniting Church. At Northcote. Anne engages with contemporary seekers to create spaces for genuine dialogue, transformation, and hope. She is a spiritual director in the Ignatian tradition and currently completing her PhD into narrative practices after the Spiritual Exercises.

As we mark a time of national prayer through Uniting in Prayer, this series on the Dwelling podcast features Uniting Church President Rev Sharon Hollis in conversation with people about prayer: how we understand it, how it shapes us and informs our ministry, what sustains our prayer lives and how we might begin to or return to prayer.

This week, the President speaks to Tongan-Australian UCA Minister Rev Salesi Fapula, minister at Canterbury Balwyn Road Uniting Church, on his experience of prayer.

As we mark a time of national prayer through Uniting in Prayer, this series on the Dwelling podcast features Uniting Church President Rev Sharon Hollis in conversation with people about prayer: how we understand it, how it shapes us and informs our ministry, what sustains our prayer lives and how we might begin to or return to prayer.

This week, the President speaks to Professor Katharine Massam from Pilgrim Theological College, a researcher in prayer and spirituality.

President Rev Sharon shares in conversation with Rev Dr Amelia Koh-Butler as she is getting ready to start a new chapter in her life after years of service in various roles across the Uniting Church. She discusses her transition to becoming the Council for World Mission's new Mission Secretary – Education & Empowerment.

In this latest series of the President's Podcast Dwelling, Rev Sharon Hollis interviews people who are concluding significant roles in the life of the Uniting Church. She asks what they have learned, what has sustained them and what they would like to say to the Church as their time in this role ends. First up is Jane Kennedy who is finishing up as UnitingWorld's Head of Programs. 

In this episode, Emily Evans speaks to President Rev Sharon Hollis about her lifelong journey in the Uniting Church and engagement in the ecumenical movement internationally. Emily has been a member of the World Council of Churches Central and Executive Committees for the last nine years. She speaks about the highlights and challenges of the WCC’s work across this time, the gift of consensus decision-making, the global pursuit of Christian unity and what it means to be formed as an ecumenical Christian. Emily and Sharon also discuss the upcoming 11th WCC Assembly meeting in Germany.

In this episode, President Rev Sharon Hollis speaks with proud Murri woman Sam Gledhill, UnitingCare Australia's Senior Adviser for First Peoples. Sam speaks about the life-changing difference a Voice to Parliament would make to First Nations people as a first step towards Treaty and Truth and holistic healing and justice for First Peoples. She also shares about how faith sustains her and the importance of having hope. 

In this episode, President Rev Sharon Hollis shares a conversation with Rev Seung Jae Yeon, minister at Boronia Park Uniting Church. Seung Jae reflects on our intercultural church, our relationship with First Peoples and what sustains him in his ministry.

Series 3 of the President's Podcast invites us to reflect on how we embody and celebrate God's gift of diversity in the Uniting Church and what it means for us to be more inclusive as a Church that celebrates and nurtures the gifts of all. In this episode we hear from Rev Dr Paul Dongwon Goh, the Justice & CALD Multicultural & Cross Cultural Officer in the Synod of SA. Paul presented a proposal that was endorsed by the 16th Assembly to deepen the Uniting Church’s commitment to living faith and life interculturally through a range of measures, including a new annual Sunday of celebration, ‘Intercultural Neighbouring Sunday’.

Welcome to the latest episode and a new series with President in conversation with women in the Uniting Church released ahead of International Women's Day. 

We invited people across our national church to submit the names of inspiring UCA women they know who are making an impact through leadership, witness and service.

Brunswick Uniting Church member and curator o popular blog, Singing from the Lectionary, Natalie Sims is one of those women. 

In Episode 3 Rev Sharon Hollis shares a conversation with Pastor Phil Smith, community pastor of BELLS Neighbourhood Church on the Sunshine Coast. They talk about growing and nurturing life-giving communities of faith and what is necessary to see this work through.

In Episode 2 Rev Sharon Hollis shares a conversation with Heather Watson on all things regarding governance and compliance and specifically how we consider these aspects of our life as part of the Act2 conversation. Rev Sharon also asks Heather about what it means to be part of the Uniting Church.

In Episode 1 Rev Sharon Hollis shares a conversation with Assembly General Secretary Colleen Geyer about her journey in the Uniting Church and the Act2 project discerning the future shape of the UCA. Reflecting on the biggest conversation taking place in the Uniting Church, Sharon and Colleen discuss what Act 2 is all about, why we need to have this conversation now, and its guiding vision to equip life-giving communities of hope in the UCA.