Royal Commission in Melbourne

Justice Peter McClellan at the recent Royal Commission hearings in Melbourne By Penny Mulvey The 16th public hearing of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, relating to the Catholic Ar

New face for Share

                                By Chip Henriss Fundraising is one of the most important functions any not for profit organisation carries

Restoring humanity in death

Eddie Marsan in Still Life MOVIE  l  Still Life  l  M Review by Penny Mulvey Still Life is a deeply moving, gentle movie that focuses on the very special job of Kennington Borough Council client services officer John May

September letters

The Major Strategic Review (MSR) lists its major points in the August Crosslight: The Church is on a journey to continually seek new and better ways to express God’s mission; The Church is the voice of those without a vo

Tassie community camp

Tasmanian camp community At first glance there seems to be little linking the church and purple semi-trailers but Rev Dr Jennifer Byrnes certainly managed to find and explore it at CommuniTAS 2014, the Presbytery of Tasm

Games’ glory

Amy Cure with Central Coast Mayor Jan Bonde at the Penguin Uniting Church hall following her World Championship community celebration earlier this year.

Learning Theology from Terry Eagleton

lewishamdreamer on Flickr Terry Eagleton is a leading British intellectual. Still going at the age of 71, he is now Professor of Literature at Lancaster University.

A lifeline

Illustration by Garth Jones – http://www.eldepositodelplatino.

Do not turn your face away

Over the past few months our television screens and newspapers have been filled with appalling stories of brutality visited upon children – Palestinian children dying in the Gaza Strip; children butchered by members of t

Watchfulness

elinnan1 on flickr Earlier on in my term as Moderator, I was given a book by a retired Uniting Church minister entitled, ‘Violence and Christian Spirituality – An Ecumenical Conversation’, edited by Emmanuel Clapsi

The problem with porn

By Penny Mulvey Pornography is an artificial digital drug which is having a dramatic impact on the male brain, a Christian neuroscientist told a Melbourne seminar in June.