Britain’s exit from the European Union has created shockwaves throughout the world. As a new week begins, one of the challenges facing political and religious leaders in the United Kingdom is how to heal a nation bitterly divided by the EU referendum.
There are already reports of a spike in racist altercations and hate crime against immigrants and ...
The annual Vinnies CEO sleepout took place in Melbourne on Thursday night. More than 200 CEOs braved cold and windy conditions as they camped outside the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre and raised funds for St Vincent de Paul Society’s homelessness services.
The sleepout has so far raised $627,708 in ...
There have been extraordinary scenes in the US Capitol building in Washington. Democrat representatives and civil rights activists sung the religious civil rights anthem We Shall Overcome while staging a sit-in demanding new gun control laws in the wake of the Orlando massacre.
The sit-in began in the morning session of Congress and was led by civil rights veteran ...
I have been asked to do an Op Ed about the Brexit campaign in the UK.
Perhaps you have heard of it?
One thing that struck me was how there have been too many opinions expressed, but little concrete information, about what is a very complex question. Should Britain continue to remain as a member of a ...
Many refugees experience unimaginable horrors when they flee their war-torn homes and seek safety in a new country.
It can be difficult to translate their deeply personal and traumatic memories into words. One way refugees are sharing their stories with the Australian public is through art.
An exhibition that took place on 18-19 June showcased the artworks of former and ...
“It’s all good for footy,” Eddie McGuire concluded as he and his fellow radio commentators ended a brief and chilling conversation, later described as ‘banter’, in which they joked about drowning a well-known female sports journalist.
As a furore has erupted over the conversation, the Collingwood president and football commentator said that he never thought of Caroline ...
Photos from the Daring Conference can be found here.
TIM LAM
The Uniting Church is characterised by a diversity of cultural and theological perspectives. This presents both a challenge and an opportunity for the Church as it examines its stance on issues such as same-gender relationships.
The topic of diversity was discussed throughout the Queen’s Birthday long ...
Most of our readers will pick up Crosslight the day after the federal election. A large number of Uniting Church halls across the Victorian and Tasmanian synod transform into polling booths on Saturday 2 July. We asked Janice Laverty, who co-ordinates hall bookings at the Nhill Uniting Church in the Wimmera district of Western Victoria (as well ...
The Chinese Church has undergone dramatic change in the past few decades. Two men with considerable knowledge of the church in China are Rev Dr Ji Zhang and Rev Zhu Enshou. They will be bringing their stories and experience to regional Victoria when they speak at a conference at Hamilton Uniting Church on the weekend of 12-14 August.
For the past eight years, Joan Waters has thought, read, wept and prayed about dementia.
The insidious disease has taken hostage of her husband of 65 years, Reynolds, a retired Uniting Church minister.
Ms Waters has watched as her vibrant, caring and loving partner slowly lost his memory, his understanding and his reasoning. In their place are ...
A guest at the refugee picnic took a final look at the Castlemaine botanical gardens in their autumn splendour and said to one of the organisers: “This is the best day I’ve had since arriving in Australia”.
The comment was music to the ears of the team of people from Rural Australians for Refugees and churches and ...
Thelma Wall was volunteering at the Sycamore Tree Coffee Shop when she saw a “young fellow” enter the adjoining Heidelberg-East Ivanhoe Uniting Church, which in those days had a front section open as a chapel.
Ms Wall decided to follow the teenager in and approach him.
“People enter a church for a reason,” she said.
