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Month: October 2022

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What we don’t need now, is angry Christians

Posted on 07/10/2022 by John Sandeman
boxing gloves

Let’s tune in to a corner of the internet, which I usually try to ignore. “I’m furious at Andrew Thorburn,” writes the very conservative Bernard Gaynor. There’s two of him – father and son, both extremely outspoken. This is BG… Continue Reading →

Latest, News, Opinion Andrew Thorburn, Christian news, City on a Hill, Essendon
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City on a Hill’s Guy Mason in a no-holds-barred interview, Freedom for Faith calls for a Religious Freedom Act

Posted on 06/10/2022 by John Sandeman
Guy mason on Sunrise

Senior pastor Guy Mason flew to Sydney to be interviewed by Channel Seven’s David Koch on Sunrise. Freedom For Faith has also come out in support of Thorburn, calling for a Religious Freedom Act and “Law and Religion’s Neil Foster… Continue Reading →

Latest, News Christian news, Freedom of Religion
4

Thorburn and turning the other cheek

Posted on 05/10/2022 by John Sandeman
Andrew Thorburn

What if Andrew Thorburn is right? Just suppose Andrew Thorburn, forced to choose between his church and his short-lived position of CEO of the Essendon Football Club was right when he said “The media and leaders of our community …… Continue Reading →

Latest, News Anglicans, Christian news, Essendon, Thorburn

The Perils of journalism (Christian style), and the Phantom of the Opera and coercive control

Posted on 05/10/2022 by John Sandeman
phantom of the opera

An Obadiah Slope Column Lefty Christians: Clive Hamilton founder of the left think tank The Australia Institute only realised that several of its early board members were Christians, “it was only writing the memoir that II looked back and thought… Continue Reading →

Latest, News, Obadiah Slope Christian news, Obadiah Slope
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City on a Hill’s Andrew Thorburn forced out of Essendon FC job

Posted on 04/10/2022 by John Sandeman
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The chair of City on a Hill, an evangelical church based in Melbourne, but with branches in Geelong, NSW and Queensland, has been forced to resign as CEO of the Essendon AFL club, one day after taking up the job.… Continue Reading →

Latest, News Andrew Thorburn, Christian news, City on a Hill

The dream of a giant cross in the outback comes to completion.

Posted on 04/10/2022 by John Sandeman

Australia’s “big things” (the giant banana in Coffs Harbour NSW or The Big Lobster in Kingston SE, SA are tourism boosters. But the newest one has a different purpose.  The Cross on Memory Mountain, is big, 20m high, and will… Continue Reading →

Latest, News Christian news, First nations

Free speech lawyers that protect Christians

Posted on 03/10/2022 by John Sandeman
John Steenhof

When Katrina, a photographer from Brisbane, posted on Facebook that she did not think drag queens are good role models for children, following publicity about a Brisbane city library drag queen story time event, she did not expect to be… Continue Reading →

Latest, News Australian christian lobby, Christian news, HRLA

Queensland’s Presbyterian College, making an offer for their own building, in receiver sale.

Posted on 03/10/2022 by John Sandeman
Queensland Theological College, Spring Hill, Queensland

Queensland Theological College (QTC) has been fundraising to save their building in inner Brisbane. QTC tells The Other Cheek they are now in a position to make an offer to the receivers who are selling their building. The collapse of… Continue Reading →

Latest, News Christian news, Presbyterians

At the end of the day, gratitude

Posted on 02/10/2022 by Nils von Kalm
Nils von Kalm's sunset

Writer Nils von Kalm is grateful. Just another impossibly beautiful sunset from my balcony in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne. Today was one of those magical Melbourne days where there wasn’t a cloud in the sky, there was just a… Continue Reading →

Latest, News Christian news, Grateful
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Why churches don’t attract the working class. Like attracts like. (A church of Uni grads is not for everyone.)

Posted on 02/10/2022 by Coz Crosscombe
Mt Druitt sign

  After 28 years in Philadelphia, USA, Dr Coz Crosscombe, the Assistant Minister at Mt Druitt Anglican in Western Sydney, has fresh eyes on how we do Church in Australia. He is “loaned out” four days a week to work… Continue Reading →

Latest, News Anglicans, Christian news, Working Class Church

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