Following the moral compass

The new Synod Ethics Committee has met to consider the Uniting Church’s response to voluntary assisted dying.

Last November, Victoria became the first state in Australia to legalise voluntary assisted dying, with the law coming into effect in June next year.

The VicTas synod currently does not have a position on voluntary assisted dying. At ...

Eating for a song at Nobucks

For the past 11 years Nobucks has been offering a free lunch with no strings attached to anyone who comes into the Wesley Centre in Hobart but recently diners have been enjoying some musical accompaniment as well.

Nobucks coordinator and founder Suzanne Vincent said the program, which serves all-comers with a three-course lunch Mondays to Thursdays and ...

Recipe for endurance

In an age of celebrity chefs performing impossibly elaborate TV culinary feats and social media’s mania for purely photogenic food, the popularity of Australia’s longest continuously published cookbook demonstrates the basics of good home cookery never go out of fashion.

The PWMU Cookbook, now in its fifth edition, has been in print since 1904 and ...

First impressions

Review by Nick Mattiske

Book | Rattling Spears: A History of Indigenous Australian Art | Ian McLean

Contemporary Indigenous art is one of the great modern art movements. Central and northern Australian Indigenous art in particular has mesmerised art buyers and gallery goers with its colour, rhythm, freshness and closeness to country.

But it ...

UCA bodies welcome royal commission

Uniting AgeWell has joined with UnitingCare Australia and Aged and Community Services Australia in welcoming the federal government’s royal commission into the aged care sector.

This follows Monday night’s Four Corners report on the treatment of the elderly in residential care centres.

The investigation revealed widespread neglect, sub-standard food and overworked staff in aged care homes throughout ...

Students lead the way in fighting injustice

It was the students’ turn to set the agenda away from their normal teachers and textbooks at a schools’ justice day held earlier this month.

Over 90 year 9 and 10 students from six schools associated with the Uniting Church gathered at the Methodist Ladies College (MLC) on 4 September to take part in student-led workshops around the ...

Crosslight wins gold at ARPA

Crosslight took home three awards at the 2018 Australasian Religious Press Association (ARPA) conference in Brisbane.

The annual awards, presented on 7 September, recognise excellence in religious journalism and publishing in Australia and New Zealand.

Rev Swee-Ann Koh’s article on racism in the church was awarded gold for Best Opinion/Editorial, with the judges commending the piece for its ...