Mods’ Quad

PENNY MULVEY It is not often that you encounter more than one Uniting Church moderator at a time, so meeting four plus one former moderator led me to consider a collective noun to describe such a group.

Racism in the Church?

“There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.

Uniting Church to appear at Royal Commission

The Hon Justice Peter McClellan AM. Uniting Church president Stuart McMillan has issued a pastoral statement ahead of the Church’s appearance at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses into Child Sexual Abuse.

Door to door service

A Uniting Church in regional Victoria is planning to use live-streaming technology to bring worship services directly to ageing congregation members.

Plenty of pancakes round the square

Penny the Pancake did the rounds drumming up business while chief grill jockey Travis made sure he got the timing right on the flip.

See the person behind the drug

By STUART MCMILLAN Twenty years ago I would have opposed safe injecting rooms. My view was drugs are bad and you can’t serve any good purpose by allowing people to shoot-up legally.

Reel life

Friday Forum Your views on the news On Monday, the 89th Academy Awards will be telecast live to more than 225 countries and territories worldwide.

Return ticket

TRAINSPOTTING 2 | FILM Review and digital illustration by Garth Jones Cinematic history is rife, perhaps even founded on, explorations of white male solipsism.

Visit prompts prayer vigils for Palestine

People of different (and no) faiths are invited to pray on Thursday for the situation in Israel and Palestine in the light of the current visit to Australia by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Prayer for Essendon plane crash

I found myself driving towards the airport today, just after the plane crashed. My car was at a standstill, I was listening to the radio hearing stories of eyewitnesses their voices full of fear and sadness.

Political leadership needed to save lives

UnitingCare drug and alcohol abuse healthcare agency ReGen has urged the Andrews Government to follow the recommendations of the state coroner and immediately establish a safe injecting centre in North Richmond to preve

Standing up for tolerance

The Uniting Church has backed a move by the Victorian government to expand bystander training as part of a statewide campaign to combat racism in the community.