Shelter from the storm
The Uniting Church’s National Assembly has adopted a new refugee and asylum seeker policy titled Shelter from the Storm.
Meet the president-elect
Dr Deidre Palmer was elected as the next president-elect of the Uniting Church in Australia today South Australian moderator, Dr Deidre Palmer, will be the next president-elect of the Uniting Church in Australia followin
Taking church justice to parliament house
Gender and sexuality commissioner, Rowena Allen Victoria’s recently appointed gender and sexuality commissioner, Rowena Allen, knows a thing or two about social justice.
Consulting, reviewing, reporting – the MSR journey
Crosslight last spoke with the Major Strategic Review (MSR) team in August last year. Since then we have reported on workshops, surveys and other engagements.
Community connections in Warrnambool
By BEN GRUNDY Warrnambool is a regional centre with historic ties stretching back to the 1840s.
Something rotten in our supermarkets
Book | Supermarket Monsters: The Price of Coles and Woolworths’ Dominance | Malcolm Knox Review by Garth Jones “We are an oligopoly community. We shouldn’t fight it.
Constant change
By Penny Mulvey The newspapers described the cold snap that descended on the east coast of Australia last month as an ‘Antarctic vortex’.
My first Assembly
Having worked at the synod for only a few months, I was not quite sure what to expect when I attended Assembly for the first time in Perth.
Meet the President
By MATT PULFORD Six weeks after being interviewed in Sydney for an accountant position at the UCA’s Northern Synod, Stuart McMillan found himself standing alone with his swag on the edge of a dirt airstrip at Ram
Golden brush relay
Primary school students will once again take part in the ‘Golden Brush’ painting relay held at St Andrew’s Uniting Church, Stratford. Teams of four to six children are each given a topic to paint.
Humanity Remade by Kindness
The ‘Emerging Man’, a series of statues in Prague, by Olbram Zoubek, depict humanity being re-made to ‘fullness’ after the end of the de-humanisation of communism.
The cost of family violence
By NIGEL TAPP Family violence is no longer an issue to be kept ‘behind closed doors’.