Is it time to change the date?
Friday Forum Your views on the news Since 1994, Australia Day has been celebrated nationally on 26 January, the day when white settlers first arrived in Australia.
Celebrating Survival on 26 January
The President of the Uniting Church in Australia Stuart McMillan has issued a Survival Day message calling on all Australians to show respect and honour for First Peoples on 26 January 2017.
Top honour for Alistair Macrae
By Penny Mulvey Congratulations to Rev Alistair Macrae and eight other members of the VicTas synod who have been honoured with awards in today’s Australia Day Honours List.
Putting theory into practice
RMIT student Ryan Townley-Jones chats with Uniting AgeWell Manor Lakes resident Kevin Peterson.
Fighter for justice moves on
After 16 years of service and leadership in human rights advocacy, Rev Elenie Poulos will step down as National Director of UnitingJustice Australia.
Prayers for a deeply shaken city
Melbourne CBD feels different this Monday morning even as workers sit at their familiar desks while tourists wander the streets.
All nations or one nation?
Sir Rohan Delacombe, Governor of Victoria and four times Administrator of the Commonwealth of Australia, sits in on the English Language Lab at Church of All Nations, in the 1960s.
Macnab leaves St Michael’s with no regrets
DAVID SOUTHWELL On Christmas Day, 45 years of high profile, diverse, successful and, at times, controversial ministry came to an end when Rev Dr Francis Macnab gave his final sermon in St Michael’s Uniting Church.
United in love
Dilan in Jaffna with their new engagement rings. Last year, eight Australians from the Sri Lankan diaspora travelled back to their homeland on a trip organised through the synod’s Uniting Journeys program.
The Uniting Church: gestation and birth
D’ARCY WOOD In June this year the Uniting Church in Australia will celebrate its 40th anniversary. Throughout 2017 Crosslight will bring you stories from the first four decades reflecting the diversity of the church.
Faith in work
REVIEW BY STEVEN CRUMP BOOK SET | THE LABOUR OF LOVE: LENTEN STUDIES ON FOLLOWING CHRIST AT WORK | JOHN BOTTOMLEY This series of Lenten Studies provides an opportunity to reflect on God’s presence in our daily work – pai
Agenda for change
More than 70 people attended an ‘open space technology’ forum in late November to have their say on major organisational changes underway in the Vic/Tas synod.