An “Obadiah Slope” Column Ro-manse: There’s been some online reminiscing by Baptists with their former Marrickville manse selling for $3,500,000. Its a nice little house, on a block not far from the railway station in an inner Sydney suburb. I… Continue Reading
The Queensland Presbyterians’ Gospel in Society Today (GiST) team has produced a well-researched paper on Acknowledgement of Country (AoC) for Christians. “Welcome and Acknowledgement of Country: help and guidance for Christians” is available at http://www.gist.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/GiST-paper-Welcome-Acknowledgment-Country-7th-July-22a.pdf It steps through the issues… Continue Reading
Jewish, Muslim, Hindu and believing Christian students are subject to bullying at school and the problems are getting worse according to researchers Professor Zehavit Gross and Professor Emerita Suzanne Rutland. They found that students often downplay the bullying, believing attempting… Continue Reading
Queensland Theological College (QTC) is campaigning to save their building in inner Brisbane. The collapse of Prescare, an aged care operator has put the Presbyterian Church of Queensland into debt. The college building owned by the denomination as a whole… Continue Reading
What do Eddie McGuire, Ignatius Jones the Creative Director of the Sydney Millennium Celebrations., and “Post God Nation?” author Roy Williams have in common? They have all been touched by Eternity – or the life story of Arthur Stace who… Continue Reading
Martyn Iles, Managing Director of the Australian Christian Lobby, refuses to participate in “Acknowlegement of Country” – a form of words that “plays respect” to First Nations people and their historical displacement. “I avoid saying the acknowledgement of country,” Iles… Continue Reading
Any new churches formed by people leaving the Anglican Church of Australia to join the new Diocese of the Southern Cross will be welcome to meet in their local Presbyterian Church building. Reflecting on the help Anglicans extended to the… Continue Reading
The media gets Anglicanism wrong – but it is so complicated Anglicans get it wrong too. The ‘“simple” story of an “Anglican split” with the formation of the new Diocese of the Southern Cross by the conservative Global Anglican Futures… Continue Reading
Maybe Obadiah is being fanciful. But just suppose you were in a Sydney Anglican Church that wanted to appoint a woman as senior minister. Impossible, right? Well maybe no longer. Richard Condie the Bishop of Tasmania, and the chair of… Continue Reading
We are not Dorothy. In the Wizard of Oz, Dorothy says to her dog, “Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.” But recent events suggest we Christians ARE in Kansas. What recent events? In the wake of the… Continue Reading