September letters
The Major Strategic Review (MSR) lists its major points in the August Crosslight: The Church is on a journey to continually seek new and better ways to express God’s mission; The Church is the voice of those without a vo
Tassie community camp
Tasmanian camp community At first glance there seems to be little linking the church and purple semi-trailers but Rev Dr Jennifer Byrnes certainly managed to find and explore it at CommuniTAS 2014, the Presbytery of Tasm
Church members become modern-day Abolitionists
On Abolitionist Sunday, Uniting Church members will join Christians nation-wide in speaking up for children like 11 year old Keota, who worked in a brick factory.
Games’ glory
Amy Cure with Central Coast Mayor Jan Bonde at the Penguin Uniting Church hall following her World Championship community celebration earlier this year.
Learning Theology from Terry Eagleton
lewishamdreamer on Flickr Terry Eagleton is a leading British intellectual. Still going at the age of 71, he is now Professor of Literature at Lancaster University.
Do not turn your face away
Over the past few months our television screens and newspapers have been filled with appalling stories of brutality visited upon children – Palestinian children dying in the Gaza Strip; children butchered by members of t
Watchfulness
elinnan1 on flickr Earlier on in my term as Moderator, I was given a book by a retired Uniting Church minister entitled, ‘Violence and Christian Spirituality – An Ecumenical Conversation’, edited by Emmanuel Clapsi
The problem with porn
By Penny Mulvey Pornography is an artificial digital drug which is having a dramatic impact on the male brain, a Christian neuroscientist told a Melbourne seminar in June.
Suffer the little children
By Penny Mulvey I sat in County Court 3 level 3 for several days in August listening to victims and leaders and officials of the Catholic Church give evidence before three of the five commissioners appointed by the Fede
Release the Golan 45
The Uniting Church in Australia has called for the immediate and safe return of 45 Fijian peacekeepers taken captive in the Middle East.
A welcome rejection of bigotry
The Uniting Church in Australia has welcomed the Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s announcement that he is taking proposed changes to the Racial Discrimination Act off the table.
Uniting Church condemns abuse of asylum seekers
Rev Elenie Poulos The Uniting Church in Australia has strongly condemned the continuing and systematic abuse of asylum seekers trying to reach Australia by boat and those being held indefinitely in unsuitable offshore de