Pioneer leader in a time of great change
NIGEL TAPP The Uniting Church achieved two significant goals in the mid-’90s. One was the adoption of consensus decision-making as the official model for meeting procedures.
March synod snaps
Wendouree Uniting Church celebrated Australia Day with a breakfast and service. Ron Hutchinson is pictured here cooking snags for the visitors. Wendouree senior citizens enjoy breakfast.
Nurturing faith
For the past seven years, the Uniting Church’s Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) program has provided pastoral training to minsters, lay people and students.
Honours for North-West Tasmania churchwomen
Mavis Rowlands When long-time Burnie Uniting Church member Mavis Rowlands was informed she had been successfully nominated for an Order of Australia Medal (OAM), her first instinct was to not accept it.
Young people the agents of change
NIGEL TAPP Sometimes it is easy to forget that when it comes to putting meat on the bones of faith-filled missional activity, children can be just as effective, and committed, as their elders.
Laid low for Lent
We are in the season of Lent. From childhood we were encouraged to give something up to enable us to reflect on the sacrifice of Jesus. People fast or give up red meat on Fridays. Give up technology. Give up alcohol.
For the slave is his money
REVIEW BY MARK ZIRNSAK BOOK | HUMAN TRAFFICKING, THE BIBLE AND THE CHURCH | MARION L S CARSON THIS book has two sections.
New reality of reconciliation
Language carries layers of meaning and shapes our imaginations. ‘Ash Wednesday’ in Australia calls to mind the bushfire season. We are attuned to the attendant media images of potential destruction.
Letters to the editor – March 2017
Unclear reflection There are times when I hesitate to take Crosslight home because I cannot understand a lot of what is written.
When things get messy
Friday Forum Your views on the news One Nation it seems is growing in respectability.
Melbourne appeal raises 47 tonnes of food for vulnerable locals
For the 25th year, Melburnians have united to support families and individuals facing crisis, donating 47 tonnes of food and essential items to Wesley Mission Victoria’s annual Food for Families appeal.
Tails of hope and despair
FILM | A STREET CAT NAMED BOB | PG Review by BARBARA ALLEN Loosely based on James Bowen’s 2012 autobiography, A Street Cat Named Bob, this movie is about the relationship between a homeless man and a cat.