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Month: March 2023

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A Christian response to new anti-homosexuality laws in Uganda

Posted on 30/03/2023 by John Sandeman

A new law passed by the Ugandan parliament this week makes advocating for gay rights punishable by imprisonment for life will present a challenge to the conservative Anglican Gafcon movement. In addition, identifying as gay becomes an offence, according to… Continue Reading →

Latest, News Anglicans, Christian news, LGBTQIA
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With an average age of 75, the Uniting Church in the Hunter region discusses what comes next.

Posted on 29/03/2023 by John Sandeman
Singleton Uniting Church

“If the UCA in the Hunter is not already dying, within twenty years it will be all but dead, is a key sentence in a “Strategic Mission Plan” for the Hunter Presbytery  (region) of the Uniting Church in Australia (UCA).… Continue Reading →

Latest, News Christian news, Uniting Church

Four in 10 Australians say they would go to an Easter service if invited by a close friend or family member

Posted on 28/03/2023 by John Sandeman

A press release by NCLS Research gives good news for Easter In December 2022, the Australian Community Survey (2022 ACS) asked Australians if they would go to church this Easter if a close friend or family member invited them. Four… Continue Reading →

Latest, News Christian news
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Deeming suspended, not expelled, Vic Libs step back from the brink

Posted on 27/03/2023 by John Sandeman
Moira Deeming

A spirit of compromise has allowed the Victorian Liberals to avoid either expelling Moira Deeming, the conservative Christian upper house member, or undermining John Pesutto the party leader who had called for her to be removed. Instead, Deeming, who attended… Continue Reading →

Latest, News Christian news

‘I had not read devotions like this before’

Posted on 27/03/2023 by Penny Reeve

Children’s book author Penny Reeve reviews A carer’s devotional journal: for carers of kids from tough places’ which like the name implies applies scripture to the lives of people whose lives are far from trouble free. If you’ve ever read… Continue Reading →

Book Review, Latest, News Children, Christian news
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Confessing group in the Uniting Church decides to cease operations

Posted on 26/03/2023 by John Sandeman
Assembly of Confessing Churches meeting

A Special General Meeting of the Assembly of Confessing Congregations Inc has voluntarily voted to cease business operations as of 30 April 2023. Over 90 per cent of the members at the meeting supported the closure. The Assembly of Confessing… Continue Reading →

Latest, News Confessing church, Evangelicals, Uniting Church
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Why an anti-trans rally might not be such a good idea after all.

Posted on 25/03/2023 by John Sandeman
Moira Deeming

Politicians of various colours , whether the deep blue Moira Deeming (pictured) from the Vic Liberals or Lidia Thorpe, the ex-Green Senator, have made heavy weather of rallies on trans issues. Deeming faces a party room motion to expel her… Continue Reading →

Latest, News Christian news

Fresh tales of persecution and answers to prayer

Posted on 24/03/2023 by John Sandeman

Dan Ole Shani, the Kenyan-born CEO of Open Doors International, brought stories of current persecution during his recent Australian visit. Open Doors is a ministry to the persecuted church, famously started by Bible Smuggler Brother Andrew. But Shani told a… Continue Reading →

Latest, News Christian news, Persecuted Church
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Pastor John McMartin sentenced

Posted on 23/03/2023 by John Sandeman
Pastor John McMartin with Pastor Carol McMartin

The long-time lead pastor at the multi-campus Inspire church, John McMartin has been sentenced to an intensive corrections order with 120 hours of community service. A breach of the order could land him in prison with a 16 months sentence… Continue Reading →

Latest, News Christian news, John Mcmartin, Pentecostals
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Christians in black shirts? Not a good look.

Posted on 22/03/2023 by John Sandeman
Chriscoveries assault

Mark Latham got cancelled last night by a group that came out to demonstrate in support of him. An election meeting at St. Michaels Church in Belfield, in inner southwestern Sydney, was closed by the police after 500 back-clad counter-demonstrators… Continue Reading →

Latest, News Christian news, Politics, Religious Freedom

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