Synod Snaps – August 2016
Synod Snaps brings you images from throughout the Church and beyond. Ballarat Central Uniting Church hosted a social justice-themed candidate’s forum in the lead-up to the federal election.
Hope in the Philippines
At the request of our partner church – the United Church of Christ in the Philippines – and in partnership with the Synod of South Australia, JILL RUZBACKY from the Justice and International Mission unit travelled to the
FUNdraising for the Asylum Seeker Welcome Centre
Two Uniting Church congregations, Brunswick and Sophia Springs, joined forces on the 18 June (the eve of Refugee Week) to raise funds for the Lentara Asylum Seeker Welcome Centre (ASWC).
Bendigo hosts Global Chaplaincy Conference
More than 115 higher education chaplains met in Bendigo for the Global Chaplaincy Conference in July. The week-long conference is hosted every four years in different locations throughout the world.
Digging for the truth
Movie | Goldstone | M Review by PENNY MULVEY There is something remarkably familiar about Ivan Sen’s latest cinematic masterpiece, Goldstone, and yet disturbingly strange.
“Now people are awake, we want to see action.” – Rev Djawanydjawany Gondarra
The ABC’s Four Corners program ‘Australia’s Shame’, broadcast on 25 July, shone a spotlight on the appalling treatment of Indigenous youth held in detention at the infamous Don Dale correction facility in the Northern Te
Lenten Offering grant applications open
Applications for the 2017 Lenten Offering grants are now open, with submissions due before the end of this month.
Mission as world Christianity and intercultural theology
‘Mission’. The term excites a range of passions. More often than not, the popular conception of the term is linked to colonisation. Mission is something negative.
Letters to the editor -August 2016
Listening to our youth Thank you, Crosslight, for the excellent Synod 2016 supplement, capturing many moments and opinions. I haven’t attended Synod for several years and this kind of summary is most welcome.
Ba ha ha or Ba humbug?
Friday Forum Your views on the news “…a merry heart doeth good like a medicine.” – [Proverbs 17:22] “What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul.” – Yiddish proverb. Humour.