After 70 years of poker machines causing harm, there is growing hope that the tide is turning in Australia’s pokie capital, Sydney. “Every day across our state, around 26 million dollars is lost through poking machines,” Wesley Mission CEO Stu… Continue Reading
The Presbyterian Church of Australia in NSW (PCNSW) General Assembly voted in favour of an overture (motion) that women can not be elders, today. The vote passed 136 to 61. The meeting took place at PLC Sydney in Croydon. Technically,… Continue Reading
Charles Brammall on Mother Teresa It happened in a convent meeting, not in front of TV cameras or Nobel committees, but behind the closed doors of the Missionaries of Charity. A young sister had spent months organising practical improvements for… Continue Reading
Allan Starr reports on a survey of NSW Presbyterians For over twenty years, some within the Presbyterian church in NSW/ACT have been actively seeking to move to male-only eldership. I myself recently attended a Presbyterian church in NSW for some… Continue Reading
Elizabeth Culhane writes a memoir about her grandfather, Ken Clezy. At his Royal Australian College of Surgeons dinner Clezy was described as “a man who translated his Christian beliefs into practical action…a remarkable surgeon, a truly remarkable Australian.” In May,… Continue Reading
Part two of Charles Brammall’s series on annihilationism If John Stott had spent his career as an eccentric theologian on the fringes of evangelicalism, his remarks about annihilationism would probably have attracted little notice. Evangelical history contains no shortage of… Continue Reading
Aussie Quote of the Year: Socceroo Awer Mabil defines multiculturalism: “It’s many journeys, with one jersey.” ### Finding Preac-hers: The Fixing Her Eyes website has updated a list of evangelical Anglican, Baptist,, and other churches that feature women regularly preaching,… Continue Reading
Christian Legal Centre After a seven-year, high-profile legal battle on multiple fronts, Rev. Dr Bernard Randall, supported by the Christian Legal Centre, has secured a legal settlement with Trent College and succeeded in overturning the Church of England’s (CofE) safeguarding… Continue Reading
In pure dollar terms, the Christian Brothers might retain the Australian title for the religious body that has evaded most responsibility for harm to survivors of child sexual abuse. But there are other contenders for religious groups evading responsibility for… Continue Reading
We are in the middle of the 50th NAIDOC Week, which makes it a good time to remember its founders.The National Aboriginal and Islander Day Observance Committee was set up after the protest called the Day of Mourning in 1938,… Continue Reading