The Uniting Church celebrates Easter
Easter is the pinnacle of the Uniting Church calendar. Christ’s resurrection offers the promise of hope and rebirth.
Pacific churches ask – Can God fix climate change?
By Cath Taylor Can God fix climate change? It’s the question on the lips of many within the Pacific Church, this month more than ever in the wake of one of the region’s most deadly cyclones.
Resurrection: Interpretation and Impatience
By Rev Dr Geoff Thompson As always, Easter is an opportunity to engage with the meaning and credibility of the church’s claims about the resurrection.
Open our eyes to the Easter gift
By Dan Wootton Many Christians prepare for Easter through self-sacrifice, by forgoing one thing or another. At times, this may seem difficult.
Chaos or order, death or life?
By Rev Dr Randall Prior The temptation for someone who was in Vanuatu at the time of the recent cyclone – the most intense cyclone ever to have passed through the island group, wreaking the most devastating havoc ever wi
Wesley explores war history
As the third generation of her family to worship at Hobart’s Wesley Uniting Church, Karen Woolford was familiar with the honour boards and stained glass windows which linked the church to World War I.
The Changing Face of Diaconal Ministry
While kangaroo tails are cooked and smoke billows above an inner city church courtyard on a balmy summer’s evening, stories are told by Indigenous people.
Ultimate sacrifice recalled and recognised
On a wall of the small Uniting Church at Woodbridge, 36 km south of Hobart, hangs poignant reminders of the local congregation’s links with World War 1.
April Letters
I read with incredulity and disbelief the letter ‘Who or what is God?’ in February Crosslight.
Support for Indigenous communities
Indigenous peoples shall not be forcibly removed from their lands or territories.
Steve gets on his bike to Tasmania
Steve Terrell’s shiny new motorcycle has attracted as much attention as he has in his first few weeks as the Chaplain at Launceston’s Scotch Oakburn College.
Partner Church visit
Bishop Joel E Tendero from UCA partner church the United Church of Christ in the Philippines (UCCP) recently visited Melbourne as a guest of the synod.