Action as a response to worship in September

St Andrews in Fairfield is one of many Uniting Churches celebrating the ‘Season of Creation’ in September. This year the focus is on the ‘Word in Creation’ which correlates with the Mark series of the church year.

August letters

Access denied I write this letter concerning the Uniting Church withdrawing its support for ACCESS Ministries.

Justice Peter McClellan speaks at Assembly

Chair of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Justice Peter McClellan, speaks to the 14th Triennial Assembly of the Uniting Church.

Assembly news

14th Triennial Assembly Uniting Church in Australia  While most of us in the eastern states shiver through icy temperatures, over in Perth approximately 300 members of the National Assembly continue to meet in temperatur

The Planting of Hope

Acts of kindness are central to happiness and fulfilment, something that Uniting Church members demonstrate in so many of their activities and quests for social justice and caring for others.

New Assembly Gen Sec

Colleen Geyer has been appointed the new Assembly Gen Sec at the National Assembly meeting in Perth.

Foreign aid

Rob Floyd, national director of UnitingWorld The Uniting Church in Australia has encouraged Church members to advocate strongly for increases in government overseas aid funding.

New Uniting Church President installed at Perth Assembly

Our very own Associate General Secretary of the Victorian and Tasmanian Synod,Isabel Thomas Dobson (pictured right) is one of the Chaplains to the new President, Stuart McMillan The installation of Stuart McMillan as 14t

The joy of baptism

No matter what your opinion of the relevance of monarchy in today’s society, the christening of the newest member of the House of Windsor over the weekend provided renewed awareness of the ceremony of baptism.

July Crosslight now available

The July edition of Crosslight is now available online and in your congregations. This month’s front page is an image from a cultural diversity festival at Glen Waverley Uniting Church in May.

A Guilt Free Shop

The collapse of the Rana Plaza factory in Bangladesh on 24 April, 2013, focused the eyes of the world on conditions endured by workers in developing countries.

Washing on wheels

The first thought that springs to mind when thinking of fresh laundry and men aged in their early 20s is (perhaps unfairly) the frequent trips back home made by such boys with a week or two’s worth of dirty clothes in t