March 2017 Crosslight now available
Uniting Church minister Rev Mark Dunn is pictured at the memorial tribute to the victims of January’s Bourke Street tragedy.
Mods’ Quad
PENNY MULVEY It is not often that you encounter more than one Uniting Church moderator at a time, so meeting four plus one former moderator led me to consider a collective noun to describe such a group.
Racism in the Church?
“There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.
Uniting Church to appear at Royal Commission
The Hon Justice Peter McClellan AM. Uniting Church president Stuart McMillan has issued a pastoral statement ahead of the Church’s appearance at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses into Child Sexual Abuse.
Door to door service
A Uniting Church in regional Victoria is planning to use live-streaming technology to bring worship services directly to ageing congregation members.
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