Caring for carers
I have written and spoken before about my partner Michael’s depression and anxiety and his death.
Bethlehem mayor wants more than prayers for peace
DAVID SOUTHWELL As she prepares to leave office, Bethlehem’s first female mayor has made an impassioned plea for peace and justice for the besieged city and the wider region.
Going home through a firing zone
TIM LAM The Holy Land is a place of spiritual significance for the world’s three monotheistic religions – Judaism, Christianity and Islam. It is also one of the most volatile locations in the world.
Enemy within
Review by Garth Jones BOOK | AMERICAN POLITICS IN THE TIME OF TRUMP | DON WATSON AS the United States prepares to head to one of the most divisive Presidential polls in history, author and speechwriter Don Watson return
Playing God
Review by Emmet O’Cuana VIDEO GAME | DRAGON AGE: INQUISITION I did not expect to find myself reflecting on the nature of religion while playing a horned giant ‘Qunari’ using magic spells to fend off attacks from a demon
The legacy of Augustine
Review by Nick Mattiske BOOK | ON AUGUSTINE | ROWAN WILLIAMS Born in 354 AD, Saint Augustine was a modern thinker, relentless in his inquiring, and insightful on the formation of the self, traits that endear him to the s
Letters home
Review by Renate Howe BOOK | DEAR FAMILY: LETTERS FROM ARNHEM LAND 1962-1966 | BETH GRAHAM How fortunate that these letters, written 50 years ago while Beth Graham and her husband Leigh were Methodist missionaries at Yir
Looking to the future
TIM LAM The future of the Uniting Church was on show at the 2016 National Young Adult Leaders Conference (NYALC) held on the Gold Coast in July.
Synod Snaps – October 2016
Families worker Corinna Fong (fourth from left) was commissioned as a Lay Preacher at Surrey Hills Uniting Church.
Commitment to service
The synod recently farewelled legal counsel Peter Shepherd following 17 years of dedicated service.
Reasonable to believe
Review by David Southwell BOOK | BEYOND BELIEF | HUGH MACKAY Beyond Belief is both a survey of contemporary Australian approaches to spirituality and a polemic tract outlining the author’s view of how God, Jesus and the