Poh Ling Yeow might be known for her quirkily inventive cross-cultural style in the kitchen but at this time of year there’s one staple she’s happy to see served up hundreds of times – the simple pancake.
The celebrity cook is ambassador for UnitingCare’s Pancake Day, with the fundraiser being held around Australia on 28 February.
Last year, Cafechurch was welcomed as one of the Uniting Church’s newest faith communities. Alister Pate, Caféchurch’s leader, is a second year candidate for Ministry of the Word and Sacrament at Pilgrim Theology College. He explained to Crosslight how the spirit of friendship helps foster faith.
People no longer go to church as they once did. Call it post-modernity, ...
Last year’s 25th annual Target and UnitingCare Christmas Appeal delivered an “amazing result” raising well over a million dollars to give those in need something to more to celebrate during the festive season.
In the weeks leading up to Christmas shoppers in Target were invited to purchase a$1 gift tag or donate unwrapped gifts under the Target Christmas tree.
The drastic shortening of Chelsea Manning’s sentence by the outgoing Obama administration in the US has brought the topic of whistleblowers back into the spotlight as Australia continues to lag in the protection and reward of those who expose wrongdoing.
Ms Manning, was sentenced to a 35-year jail sentence in 2013 for the largest leak of classified and sensitive material ...
When 89-year-old Reginald Rigby suffered a serious fall at home earlier this month and broke his left shoulder, hospital staff offered him the choice of recovering in respite care or at an aged care home.
Neither sounded appealing for Mr Rigby who wanted to remain in his own home in the town of Penguin, on Tasmania’s North-West coast, and ...
Melbourne Lord Mayor Robert Doyle says attempts by the Greens to decriminalise begging will rob the city of the only means it has to divert people off the streets and get them appropriate help.
The proliferation of beggars around Flinders St station and major CBD thoroughfares continues to be a contentious issue and Cr Doyle said that being able ...
The heatwave that left the large swathes of the northern (from a Victorian’s point of view) states sweltering this week did not spare the young and not-so-young attending Yurora 2017.
Thankfully on Tuesday the North East Victoria delegation attending the National Christian Youth Convention (NCYC) at Stanwell Tops, south of Sydney, found a nicely shaded spot to enjoy some lunch for the ...
Aged care provider Uniting AgeWell will make its presence felt at one of Australia’s biggest festivals of gay and alternative sexualities.
The agency will be represented by a stand at the Midsumma Festival’s opening event, the Midsumma Carnival, this Sunday on the lawns of Alexandra Gardens in Melbourne.
Chair of the Uniting AgeWell Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex (LGBTI) ...
A life that epitomised post-war Hollywood glamour and popular operatic romance will be celebrated next month in a show that will also help out those fleeing war and persecution.
A special charity performance of Lanza Sings Again is being staged at the Brighton Town Hall in Melbourne’s south-east before the production begins a national tour.
It features opera star Roy Best as Mario Lanza, the telegenic American tenor who went ...
Young people were challenged to make a personal proclamation to follow Jesus during Sunday night’s opening worship rally at Yurora, the Uniting Church’s flagship national youth event.
Congress pastor Uncle Ray Minniecon delivered a stirring message to set the tone of the National Christian Youth Convention, or NCYC as it is better known.
As 2016 draws to a close, Crosslight looks back on the biggest stories from this year.
On the political front, 2016 was a tumultuous year with plenty of shocks and surprises. The Australian federal election became a marathon as the Liberal Party narrowly edged the Australian Labor Party following eight days of counting.
For Christians the birth of Jesus is not just an historical event to be marked on Christmas Day but is an ongoing story of the way that God is at work in the world.
The period of Advent leading up to Christmas is for many an important time to reflect upon this, as moderator Sharon Hollis notes.
