Tomorrow’s Religion Report on ABC Radio (Wednesday November 16, 8.30 am and 8 pm) will be featuring the Uniting Church in a couple of ways.
Industrial Relations
1. The President of the Uniting Church in Australia appeared this week before a Senate Inquiry into the government’s industrial relations legislation – and spent a good deal of time justifying to the Committee why he was there.
I heard Dean Drayton on the radio talking about the danger of protecting only preferential options for the rich. Good stuff Dean. There’s more on Dean’s presentation at Journey Online.
Church Property
2. Disaffected Uniting Church members are campaigning to change state laws so they can keep church property if they split from the denomination.
This is precisely the reason state laws were written for the Uniting Church – to protect it from such raids.
A transcript of this week’s Religion Report, with links and references, will be available by 5pm Wednesday.