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Building a Brave Space: 60 students, one big conversation about truth-telling
Adrian Pyle gives a summary of the recent “Building a Brave Space: Engaging with First Peoples’ Truth” event, where around 60 Year 6-8 students from four schools spent a day at Wesley Place hearing from Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung, First Peoples’ Assembly of Victoria and Uniting Church speakers before pitching their own ideas for building understanding and belonging.
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Event celebrates autism awareness
As we mark World Autism Acceptance Day tomorrow (April 2) and World Autism Understanding Month during all of April, the Synod’s Disability Inclusion Advocate, Elga Rodriguez, outlines how congregations can support autistic members.
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Time to tackle forced labour
In his regular Crosslight magazine column, Senior Social Justice Advocate Mark Zirnsak explains how the Synod is playing a role in raising awareness around the issue of forced labour.
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Moderator’s Easter message
In a world riven by conflict and drama, Moderator Rev Salesi Faupula reminds us that “Easter calls us back to the pattern of Christ: truthful, patient and merciful”.
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April 2026 reflection for school boards
Director of Chaplaincy and Connections, Adrian Pyle, reflects on leadership pace and discernment, encouraging boards to notice where they may be rushing decisions and to consider what might change if space, listening, and difference were more fully held.
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Designing spaces where everyone belongs
The Centre for Theology and Ministry hosted a day of keynotes, workshops and honest conversation with over 75 young leaders about how belonging doesn’t happen by accident, it’s something you actively build.
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March 2026 reflection for school boards
Director of Chaplaincy and Connections, Adrian Pyle, reflects on “blind spots”, encouraging boards to reflect on their own decision-making frameworks, and asking if we are protecting our own coherence or staying in discomfort of a new truth.
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Making room for complexity
Adrian Pyle, Director of Chaplaincy and Connections, explores how communities of learning and care can distinguish truth from distortion in a world of “compressed” narratives. It’s a guide to listening more carefully to the stories we surround ourselves with.
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Home where the heart is
When accommodation was needed to house a refugee family, the Diamond Valley Uniting Church came to the rescue with an offer of its manse.
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Faithful Futures leader appointed
Crosslight magazine sat down with Dr Karen Roberts as she commences her role as Faithful Futures Project Lead.
