Victorians urged to be ready for fire season

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.

Putting Christmas on the table

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.

Fashion parade at Ocean Grove

The Ocean Grove Uniting Church congregation recently hosted a Spring Fashion Parade to raise funds for local and overseas communities.

Judging Jonah

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

Beauty therapy at Phillip Island

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.

Letters – November 2016

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

Context and Contingency

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’.

All creatures

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

Universal truth?

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.