Plenty of pancakes round the square
Penny the Pancake did the rounds drumming up business while chief grill jockey Travis made sure he got the timing right on the flip.
See the person behind the drug
By STUART MCMILLAN Twenty years ago I would have opposed safe injecting rooms. My view was drugs are bad and you can’t serve any good purpose by allowing people to shoot-up legally.
Return ticket
TRAINSPOTTING 2 | FILM Review and digital illustration by Garth Jones Cinematic history is rife, perhaps even founded on, explorations of white male solipsism.
Visit prompts prayer vigils for Palestine
People of different (and no) faiths are invited to pray on Thursday for the situation in Israel and Palestine in the light of the current visit to Australia by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Prayer for Essendon plane crash
I found myself driving towards the airport today, just after the plane crashed. My car was at a standstill, I was listening to the radio hearing stories of eyewitnesses their voices full of fear and sadness.
Political leadership needed to save lives
UnitingCare drug and alcohol abuse healthcare agency ReGen has urged the Andrews Government to follow the recommendations of the state coroner and immediately establish a safe injecting centre in North Richmond to preve
Standing up for tolerance
The Uniting Church has backed a move by the Victorian government to expand bystander training as part of a statewide campaign to combat racism in the community.
Call for unity
REVIEW BY NICK MATTISKE BOOK | THE END OF PROTESTANTISM | PETER LEITHART Peter Leithart’s book The End of Protestantism is not a lament for the decline of Western Christianity or a pessimistic prediction, but Leithart’s
A helping hand
The story of Alan Stafford and the Uniting Church Emergency Fencing Team came to my attention via a copy of an article in the Benalla Ensign last month.
Space for grace in sexuality debate
WILLIAM LOADER In November last year I was invited by the Evangelical Theological Association to present a paper at their annual conference in San Antonio on same-sex relations.
Living our mission
Forty years ago, the inaugural Assembly of the Uniting Church issued a Statement to the Nation. This statement outlines the Uniting Church’s desire to be involved in “social and national affairs”.