• Home
  • About Us
  • Features
    Values and principles in the midst of a pandemic
    Values and principles in the midst of a pandemic
    The times they are a-changin’
    The times they are a-changin’
    I shall not want
    I shall not want
    Is God good?
    Is God good?
  • Reviews
    Making the way back
    Making the way back
    Does suffering bring us closer to God?
    Does suffering bring us closer to God?
    The privilege of parenting
    The privilege of parenting
    What does invisibility reveal?
    What does invisibility reveal?
  • News
  • Events
Home
About Us
Advertise
Contact Us
Features
Reviews
News
Events
FeaturesFirst Peoples
Revealing the hidden history of First Peoples
COVID-19News
Bathurst cafe to help those experiencing homelessness
FeaturesStreaming Now
Celebrating creativity
COVID-19Features
Guardians of hope, health and good theology

Latest News & Features

Features
Revealing the hidden history of First Peoples
Revealing the hidden history of First Peoples
Reviews: Truganini: Journey through the apocalypse by Cassandra Pybus, This Whispering in our Hearts Revisited by Henry Reynolds Reconciliation Week reminds us of the hidden history of Indigenous Australia, something dealt with in these two books, important in their own...
continue reading
COVID-19
Bathurst cafe to help those experiencing homelessness
Bathurst cafe to help those experiencing homelessness
News
Low wages fuelling modern slavery for tea workers
Low wages fuelling modern slavery for tea workers
Features
Celebrating creativity
Celebrating creativity
COVID-19
Guardians of hope, health and good theology
Guardians of hope, health and good theology

LIVING CHURCH - SYNOD 2019

“We can’t change the world, but we can do a little bit towards it”
Inspired by a climate change TV show, Drowning in Plastic, the Campbelltown Uniting Church community decided to take some action. At Insights we had the opportunity to talk to John Russell, a Board Member and...
The Purpose of the Living Church
What makes the church a living church?  This was the question posed by Rev Peter Walker on the first day of the Living Church Synod 2019. In the first of three daily devotionals focusing on...
The Focus of the Living Church
What do we really mean when we speak of the church as a community in which there is unity in our diversity? We are an inclusive church that values diversity. What does unity in diversity...
The Identity of the Living Church
Identity is important. And it is fair to say the Uniting Church has spent a disproportionate amount of its energy on the question of its identity, Rev. Peter Walker has told the final day of...
What Living Church means to us
At Synod 2019 the theme was ‘Living Church’ and throughout the event, we asked people what the Uniting Church meant to them and how they felt their Uniting Church was a Church living out the...
Synod 2019 Bible Studies
Over three days, United Theological College Principal Rev. Peter Walker delivered Bible Studies to the 2019 Synod meeting. These studies have been praised by Synod members as one of the meeting’s highlights. You can watch...
Synod 2019: John Squires reflects
Synod this year was a rich experience of being the church. In the church, we are young and old, and at every point in between. In the church, we are black, brown, and white; we...
Synod Special Event: ‘Half a Million Steps’ Panel Discussion
On Friday 6 July, the Uniting Church in Australia Synod of NSW and the ACT hosted a special screening and Q&A panel discussion on the documentary 'Half a Million Steps' at Knox Grammar. The panel...
Synod 2019 closes
The Living Church – Synod 2019 drew to a close with a powerful and poignant closing celebration. The celebration was open to the wider church as well as Synod members and saw more than 200...
Video Playlist
1/0 videos

Digital Ministry

Digital Ministry
Edifying the church
Edifying the church
Digital Ministry
What is it that shapes genuine Christian community?
What is it that shapes genuine Christian community?
Digital Ministry
Calm Down during COVID-19
Calm Down during COVID-19
Digital Ministry
Creating Christian Community Online With Zoom
Creating Christian Community Online With Zoom

Culture

Features
Revealing the hidden history of First Peoples
Revealing the hidden history of First Peoples
Features
Celebrating creativity
Celebrating creativity
Culture Watch
Reality star and wrestler’s death prompts cyber bulling discussion
Reality star and wrestler’s death prompts cyber bulling discussion
Streaming Now
Fleeing for rebirth
Fleeing for rebirth

LECTIONARY REFLECTIONS

Lectionary Reflections
You will receive power to be my witnesses – Acts 1: 1-11/John 17: 6-19
You will receive power to be my witnesses – Acts 1: 1-11/John 17: 6-19
There is something deeply intimate and moving, but also something very familiar about the scene in the Acts 1 reading. It’s the familiarity of farewell. Jesus knows his time has...
continue reading
Lectionary Reflections
Every Worshipper a Witness – Acts 7: 55-60
Every Worshipper a Witness – Acts 7: 55-60
Features
May: God calls us back to faith and life
May: God calls us back to faith and life

ADVERTISING

UPCOMING EVENTS

Connect With Us

Facebook-f Twitter Instagram Envelope-open-text

ADD AN EVENT

Are you hosting an event in the Synod that will be of interest to Insights’ readers?

To add an event listing email us your event details. A full list of events can be found on our Events page.

INSTAGRAM

Invalid OAuth access token.
Follow on Instagram

ABOUT US

Insights, the magazine of the Uniting Church in Australia’s Synod of New South Wales and the ACT tells the story of the church to Uniting Church members. Insights keeps people informed. It gets people talking. It builds community.

Facebook-square Twitter Instagram

ARCHIVES

Archives

Recent Posts

Comments

Recent Comments

Copyright All rights reserved | Site by Intelligent Developments

About Insights

Scroll to Top