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How Can We Rebuild our Faith?

Review: Review: Beyond Deconstruction: Building A More Expansive Faith by James F McGrath The term “Deconstruction” has recently become something of a buzzword, especially in American Christian circles. It refers to people questioning and even unlearning the faith they grew up with so they can find, and own, their beliefs for themselves. As New Testament […]

Jonathan Foye 9 June 2026

The Weight of Two Worlds

Review: The Immigrants, Moreno Giovannoni, Black Inc In Moreno Giovannoni’s prize-winning novel, the narrator (a thinly veiled version of the author) is at one point perusing a book on Mitrefo (a thinly veiled version of Myrtleford in Victoria, a hotspot for Italian postwar immigration). He says that there is little mention of the Italian migrants […]

Nick Mattiske 9 June 2026

Dreams and Visions: How Young People Are Shaping the Uniting Church

Often, younger people in the church are looked to as a source of hope. They represent something to an ageing church that strives to be intergenerational, that seeks to remain relevant, and that wants to believe it has a future. We are the breath of life that puts smiles on faces just for showing up on a […]

Gabrielle Cadenhead 21 December 2021

Where Are All the Male Role Models? They May Be Closer Than We Think

This week, 15-21 June, is Men’s Health Week in Australia and the founder of The Men’s Table says connection, care and honest conversation are helping Australian men model a healthier version of masculinity. At a time when many Australians are asking where the positive male role models are, The Men’s Table says the answer may […]

15 June 2026

A Fine Cup of Nostalgia

Review: A Place Both Wonderful and Strange: The Extraordinary Untold History of Twin Peaks, Scott Meslow, Faber Scott Meslow’s book whets the appetite for Twin Peaks nostalgia, even if, like me, forced to return to the original episodes, you don’t remember all the twists and turns and don’t always care. He is enthusiastic for the […]

Nick Mattiske 15 June 2026

Spielberg’s Sincerity in the Face of Cynicism

If you found out we weren’t alone, if someone showed you, proved it to you, would that frighten you? This is the question at the heart of Steven Spielberg’s return to making films about extra-terrestrials, Disclosure Day. It is also the tagline for the film, appearing in marketing materials plastered across the world and people’s […]

Jonty Cornford 16 June 2026

Insta-Faith or Slow Faith?

We have learned to expect everything quickly. Two-day shipping. Same-day delivery. The meal that arrives before the hunger fully registers. The answer that surfaces the instant the question forms is retrieved from a glowing rectangle in our palm. We have built a civilization on the elimination of waiting, and we have come to experience delay […]

Graham Joseph Hill 16 June 2026

I Consciously Uncoupled From My Phone for Two Weeks and Here’s What Happened

For two weeks while on holiday recently, I consciously uncoupled from my phone. Not completely. I still used it when necessary for calls and messages from travelling children. But I deliberately stepped away from the endless cycle of notifications, social media scrolling, news consumption and habitual checking that has become second nature. What happened surprised […]

Adrian Drayton 17 June 2026

Chasing Perfection: The Rise of Looksmaxxing and What Faith Communities Can Do About It

A growing number of teenage boys and young men are spending hours online trying to become more attractive. The trend is known as “looksmaxxing”, which is a movement that encourages people to maximise their physical appearance through fitness, grooming, skincare, fashion, supplements and, in some cases, cosmetic procedures and dangerous body modification practices. What begins […]

Adrian Drayton 22 June 2026

The Theology of Cricket

I don’t know how many articles or thinkpieces you might have read that draw connections between the technique of cricket and the foundations of western religion, but I’m about to add a number to that tally. Consider it my duty as a former pastor with an unhealthy love of the game of cricket. What started […]

Jonty Cornford 23 June 2026

What Pixar’s Toy Story 5 Teaches us about AI, Social Media and Raising Children

There have always been lessons hidden inside Pixar’s Toy Story films. They’ve explored friendship, loyalty, change, loss and what it means to find your place in the world. Toy Story 5 continues that tradition, but this time its focus couldn’t be more timely. The film asks what happens when artificial intelligence and digital technology become […]

Adrian Drayton 24 June 2026

A Place at the Table

There’s a particular loneliness that comes from sitting in a room full of people who love you and still feeling like you don’t quite belong. Many single Christians know it well. You arrive at church, and the sermon illustration is about marriage again. The small groups are organised around couples and young families. The well-meaning […]

Graham Joseph Hill 30 June 2026

The Show I Keep Mocking While Somehow Never Missing an Episode

There is something uniquely disorienting about watching NCIS: Sydney. On one hand, you find yourself scoffing at it. The accents occasionally feel like they were assembled in a laboratory by Americans who once overheard a conversation in Bondi. The acting, especially in the early episodes, often lands somewhere between “Neighbours guest star” and “tourism ad […]

Adrian Drayton 1 July 2026

July: Grounding

As the grey weariness of winter starts to settle within us, July’s readings call us gently into the kin(g)dom life of sharing burdens, cultivating “good” ground, practising neighbourly care, and trusting in God’s slow and subtle transformation. 5 July – Pentecost 6 Genesis 24:34-38,42-49,58-67; Psalm  45:10-17; Romans 7:15-25a;  Matthew 11:16-19,25-30 Duty and desire are entangled […]

Rev. Yvonne Ghavalas 30 June 2026

Pride: From Issue to Blessing

For many Queer (LGBTQIA+) Christians, conversations about sexuality have often begun with questions of legitimacy rather than discipleship; more about inclusion than vocation and more about controversy than blessing. Both Abram and Matthew encounter a God who is not primarily concerned with defending their existence. Instead, God calls them into relationship, purpose and, participation in […]

James Baker 11 June 2026

Lilies and Birds

Jesus in Matthew 6, teaches us how to pray, how to look toward the Kingdom and about relying on God. He says look, pay attention, the flowers are enough, the birds are enough, creation isn’t anxious about proving itself. As Pride Month draws to a close (even as festivals and celebrations continue over the coming weeks), […]

James Baker 30 June 2026

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