Indigenous Visions
Review by NICK MATTISKE BOOK | OUR MOB, GOD’S STORY: ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER ARTISTS SHARE THEIR FAITH | EDITED BY LOUISE SHERMAN AND CHRISTOBEL MATTINGLEY IN one of last year’s better books, Position Doub
Border Farce
Review by NICK MATTISKE BOOK | VIOLENT BORDERS | BY REECE JONES | VERSO IN 2015, 3700 people died trying to enter Europe.
Silver celebrations at St Albans
THE congregation at St Albans Uniting Church recently celebrated 25 years of worship with a special service on 26 February. Back in February 1992, six Filipino families gathered at the Brooklyn Uniting Church in Altona.
Home truths
Review by NIGEL TAPP BOOK | CRIMES OF THE FATHER | BY TOM KENEALLY | PENGUIN RENOWNED author and former seminarian Tom Keneally is no stranger to writing about the Catholic Church as well as the issue of child sex abuse
Letters to the editor – April 2017
Judge not … RESPONDING to Dennis Litchfield’s letter (Crosslight, March 2017), who complains firstly about the statement “Crosslight seeks not to denigrate other denominations or faiths”, one wonders exactly what Mr Litc
Space race triumph
Review by ANN BYRNE FILM | HIDDEN FIGURES | PG IT’S about time – and it’s about space. It’s about gender and it’s about race.
Circles of support
Most people have a network of friends they can call on for support, but for those living with a disability these connections may be harder to foster due to stigma and social isolation.
They had no choice
ANIMALS have served in war for hundreds of years, from elephants during the time of Hannibal, to the present day bomb-sniffing dogs used in the Afghanistan conflict.
Licence to print money
NIGEL TAPP Tasmanian author and Wesley Hobart member James Boyce’s examination of the often cosy relationship between Tasmanian governments and gambling giant Federal Hotels over the last 50 years is certainly timely.
Bethlehem University – an oasis of peace in the Holy Land
HEATHER R MATHEW Students at Bethlehem University face many restrictions in their daily lives, the institution’s vice-chancellor Brother Peter Fray (pictured) told a February public gathering at Elm Street Hall in North
Mission focused-future
HOW presbyteries will carry out their pastoral ministry of supporting congregations and ministers and encouraging mission is an important issue facing the church.