Scenes from the Sydney Synod Quiet: The 800-strong Sydney Anglican Synod (church parliament) fell so silent you could hear a pin drop when Darlinghurst Minister Matthew Wilcoxen spoke. He told the story of fostering for the first time – receiving… Continue Reading
Requiring board members of schools and other organisations to sign statements of faith with contentious clauses – such as on marriage – will be a thing of the past for Sydney Anglicans if a new governance policy is adopted. The… Continue Reading
An excerpt from John Dunmore Lang’s Sermon National sins, the cause and precursors of national judgments Preached in Scots church Sydney in 1838. Lang is often regarded as the father of the Presbyterian Church in Australia. It stands with Baptist… Continue Reading
Religion Unplugged. It was an ordinary chapel service on Feb. 8, 2023, in Hughes Auditorium at Asbury University. But what happened next was anything but ordinary, taking almost everyone by surprise. While most left for class, some students remained. Several… Continue Reading
James Hoey has a vision for Melbourne. “We’ve got a 5 million person city with many empty churches and empty parishes that we just need more people to proclaim the gospel,” he tells The Other Cheek. So he’s taking a… Continue Reading
There has been an increased number of abortions in the United States since the overturning of the Roe v Wade ruling claiming abortion was a right protected by the US Constitution. In the first six months of 2020, before the… Continue Reading
Mangrove Mountain, a small community in the NSW Central Coast hinterland, still has a church thanks to a bunch of Christians and atheists who banded together to save the “little white church at Mangrove Mountain.” Their Union church has been… Continue Reading
In a quiet corner away from the hall where the Sydney Anglican Synod is taking place, a sheet of paper attached to the noticeboard contained disturbing news. A gentle decline in attendance figures is shown in a table compiled in… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope column Archbishop Kanishka Raffel asked three indigenous leaders, Larissa Minniecon, a Synod member from St John’s Glebe; Naville Naden, Indigenous Ministry Officer of Bush Church Aid; and Michael Duckett, pastor of Macarthur Anglican Church, to address the… Continue Reading
After an opening hymn, Praise my Soul the King of Heaven, Michael Duckett, pastor of Macarthur Indigenous Church, led the Sydney Anglican Synod Opening Service in the Cathedral with a Prayer of Acknowledgement. “Our Lord and loving heavenly Father, we… Continue Reading