Fashion parade at Ocean Grove
The Ocean Grove Uniting Church congregation recently hosted a Spring Fashion Parade to raise funds for local and overseas communities.
Reconciliation in post-war Sri Lanka
TIM LAM Sri Lanka is slowly emerging from the shadows of a decades-long civil war.
Judging Jonah
REVIEW BY BOB FASER BOOK | SYMPATHY FOR JONAH: REFLECTIONS ON HUMILIATION, TERROR, AND THE POLITICS OF ENEMY-LOVE | DAVID BENJAMIN BLOWER David Blower’s brief (60 pages) study of the Book of Jonah challenges the main fou
Unpolished silver
REVIEW BY EMMET O’CUANA BOOK | THE SILVER BARON’S WIFE | DONNA BAIER STEIN Donna Baier Stein’s fictionalised account of Elizabeth ‘Baby Doe’ McCourt Tabor promises much.
Beauty therapy at Phillip Island
Celtic theologian John O’Donohue once said a world without beauty would be unbearable. “Beauty is so quietly woven through our ordinary days that we hardly notice it.
Letters – November 2016
Flying the flag The August issue of Crosslight has a dramatic cover of the cross, the main symbol of the Christian religion, being manoeuvred into position at Long Tan, and its articles on military chaplaincy expresses m
Community Life Survey
This chart represents the ages of attending church members across Victoria and Tasmania EMMET O’CUANA For the fifth year running, synod operations has canvassed congregations in Victoria and Tasmania inviting submi
Context and Contingency
Is there any theology that does not have a context? Is there any theology which can avoid a hermeneutic of suspicion? Clearly, the answer to both these questions is ‘no’.
Universal truth?
REVIEW BY NICK MATTISKE BOOK | INVENTING THE UNIVERSE: WHY WE CAN’T STOP TALKING ABOUT SCIENCE, FAITH AND GOD | ALISTER MCGRATH Confronting the New Atheists is a bit like tidying up after toddlers.
All creatures
REVIEW BY REV IAN SMITH BOOK | ANIMALS IN RELIGION | REV BARBARA ALLEN This book is timely; in the midst of the growing global concern around climate change and the future of our world as we know and understand it, Barba
Bali beyond the beaches and bars
Rev Ketut Sudiana, Irene Deborah, Made Effrayim Arifin. Irene Deborah was completely unprepared for what happened when the Jeep window was wound down in Sepang village, northern Bali a few months ago.