Down-to-earth advice
REVIEW BY CATH JAMES BOOK | COMING BACK TO EARTH | JONATHAN CORNFORD It is rare to find a book that challenges the reader to confront ethical decisions about how to live and engage in social change while recognising ther
Creation stories
Patricia Piccinini, Sphinx 2012 REVIEW BY GARTH JONES MUSEUM | ON THE ORIGIN OF ART, MUSEUM OF OLD AND NEW ART, HOBART TASMANIA To paraphrase Monty Python’s Life of Brian, MONA Museum figurehead David Walsh is not the ar
February 2017 Synod Snaps
Wesley Church Melbourne presented its minister Rev Alistair Macrae a new purple stole featuring traditional Easter and Christmas symbols.
Caféchurch service with something extra
Last year, Cafechurch was welcomed as one of the Uniting Church’s newest faith communities.
Letters to the editor – February 2017
Core beliefs The feature article ‘Core Beliefs’ in the December issue of Crosslight makes for disturbing reading.
Rethinking Audacious Hope
Carla Wells reflects on the impending Trump presidency. On the night of 8 November, 2016, in the Bay Area of San Francisco, there was an eerie silence in the air.
Christmas appeal earns plenty of wraps
Last year’s 25th annual Target and UnitingCare Christmas Appeal delivered an “amazing result” raising well over a million dollars to give those in need something to more to celebrate during the festive season
What to do with whistleblowers
The drastic shortening of Chelsea Manning’s sentence by the outgoing Obama administration in the US has brought the topic of whistleblowers back into the spotlight as Australia continues to lag in the protection and rewa
The healing power of home
When 89-year-old Reginald Rigby suffered a serious fall at home earlier this month and broke his left shoulder, hospital staff offered him the choice of recovering in respite care or at an aged care home.
Argument rages over whether begging is a crime
Melbourne Lord Mayor Robert Doyle says attempts by the Greens to decriminalise begging will rob the city of the only means it has to divert people off the streets and get them appropriate help.
Controversial campaign raises the baa
FRIDAY FORUM – YOUR VIEWS ON THE NEWS In what has become something of an annual January tradition, the Meat and Livestock Association’s advertisements promoting lamb are bound to cause controversy.