Why Unite?

By Rev Randall Prior (with gratitude to Norman Young, D’Arcy Wood and Graham McAnalley) In the 1990s, in the city of Knox in Melbourne’s outer east, I was involved in a local Uniting and Anglican Churches initiative to e

Setting the record straight

By Robert Latimer As the key organiser and master of ceremonies for the ‘Understanding Islam’ series held on 18 and 25 March 2015 at North Ringwood Uniting Church, (NRUC) I would like to assure readers of Crosslight that

Farewell to church building

Last month, the congregation at Arnold Street Bendigo Uniting Church bid a sad farewell to their place of worship. Arnold Street had been a place of Christian worship for many people over the past 141 years.

Reviewing our culture

A desire for goodwill to others featured strongly in the recent culture survey conducted by the Major Strategic Review (MSR).

The first impressions of an outsider

Photo by Bret Salinger By Rev Dr John G Flett As one new to the Uniting Church, I thought that I might relate my first and uninformed impressions.

June Letters

Walking for justice I read the article in the May issue of Crosslight, and while I was delighted at the size of the response, and the leading of the UCA contingent by President Andrew Dutney and Moderator Dan Wootton, th

Poem – The Lonely

Central Australia Desert – ‘Hand Drawn with Mouse’ Digital Art 2002 by Margaret Gambold.   By Margaret Gambold Lonely corridors they walk, defeated, the world’s lonely.

Making do with much less

By Nigel Tapp UnitingCare agencies and churches involved with emergency relief funding are being expected to do more with much less following a cut of about 30 per cent in Federal Government emergency relief funding acr