The ABCs of Copyright

Is your church or organisation aware of its obligations in relation to copyright laws? Just because an image can be downloaded from the internet does not mean you can project it free of charge.

Become a shooting star

Penny Mulvey learnt a thing or two about mobile phones on her latest trip to a rural presbytery.

A glimpse into the despair of detention

HELEN STAGOLL When I visited a Melbourne asylum seeker detention centre recently, I was not allowed to take in a bunch of flowers for my friend’s birthday. No reason given except ‘it’s policy’.

Historic truth

Review by Suzanne Yanko Book | The embarrassed colonialist | Sean Dorney Sean Dorney is an Australian journalist who has probably been the most trusted voice on Papua New Guinea affairs since he arrived in Moresby as a

Family ministry

Rev Ronald Alister Blackwood 23 August 1919 – 12 June 2017 Ron Blackwood was born in Dimboola, Victoria on 23 August 1919.

Stranger than fiction

Review by Nick Mattiske Book | The Stranger in the Woods | Michael Finkel One day in the 1980s a young man fed up with the modern world abandons his car by the side of the road and disappears into the woods of the northe

Presbyteries in transition

PENNY MULVEY Sixty representatives from across the presbyteries and synod gathered at the Centre for Theology & Ministry last month to hear about progress relating to future plans for the presbyteries.

Letters to the editor – July 2017

Responding to terror Hear, hear! to the views expressed by the editor in regard to using the awful terrorist attacks in Manchester as a means to vilify those seeking to escape bombings and war to find refuge in a safer p