Emergency authorities are warning Victorians to prepare themselves for a significant bushfire season. Recent rains have fuelled substantial grass growth, which will increase the likelihood of fire once temperature rises.
Volunteers sorting donated food. DAVID SOUTHWELL Christmas hasn’t always been that festive for Jill*. “I actually spent one Christmas eating two-minute noodles,” she said.
Pic credit: Susan Dirgham. Syria was once a vibrant and prosperous country like Australia, with a population of 23 million people.
Connections UnitingCare Chief Executive Officer Angela Forbes used a very Melbourne analogy to powerfully illustrate how hundreds of thousands of children are not being given a sporting chance in Australia.
The Ocean Grove Uniting Church congregation recently hosted a Spring Fashion Parade to raise funds for local and overseas communities.
REVIEW BY BOB FASER BOOK | SYMPATHY FOR JONAH: REFLECTIONS ON HUMILIATION, TERROR, AND THE POLITICS OF ENEMY-LOVE | DAVID BENJAMIN BLOWER David Blower’s brief (60 pages) study of the Book of Jonah challenges the main fou
Celtic theologian John O’Donohue once said a world without beauty would be unbearable. “Beauty is so quietly woven through our ordinary days that we hardly notice it.
Flying the flag The August issue of Crosslight has a dramatic cover of the cross, the main symbol of the Christian religion, being manoeuvred into position at Long Tan, and its articles on military chaplaincy expresses m
Is there any theology that does not have a context? Is there any theology which can avoid a hermeneutic of suspicion? Clearly, the answer to both these questions is ‘no’.
REVIEW BY REV IAN SMITH BOOK | ANIMALS IN RELIGION | REV BARBARA ALLEN This book is timely; in the midst of the growing global concern around climate change and the future of our world as we know and understand it, Barba
REVIEW BY NICK MATTISKE BOOK | INVENTING THE UNIVERSE: WHY WE CAN’T STOP TALKING ABOUT SCIENCE, FAITH AND GOD | ALISTER MCGRATH Confronting the New Atheists is a bit like tidying up after toddlers.
