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Month: June 2024

Is the (fill in blank) racist?

Posted on 20/06/2024 by John Sandeman

An Obadiah Slope column How can you tell? “The PCA is not racist” is how US Anglican writer Anne Kennedy signs off a strong rebuke of David French, New York Times columnist who Obadiah is as sure as you can… Continue Reading →

Latest, News, Obadiah Slope Christian news, Presbyterians, Religious Freedom

Good news: Baptists are baptising more and more people

Posted on 19/06/2024 by John Sandeman
sacred agents baptist blog

A significant rise in baptisms in Australia’s Baptist churches is reported by Crossover – the Baptist ministry that helps people share Jesus. A 34 per cent rise in baptisms year on year in this denomination, represents a rise in people… Continue Reading →

Latest, News Baptists, Christian news

Decline of Christians in the West is balanced by the rise of Global South followers of Christ

Posted on 18/06/2024 by John Sandeman
Ululating at Gamasara church

More Christians are alive now than have ever been on the Earth and this is predicted by researchers to persist. Despite the rise of secularism in the West, Christians are at least holding their own as a percentage of the… Continue Reading →

Latest, News Africa, Christian news, Global Christianity

Christian network withdraws Trump election conspiracy movie

Posted on 18/06/2024 by John Sandeman
2000 Mules movie

The Wall Street Journal called it a “belated apology” and it was. This month, Salem Media, a major US-based conservative and christian radio network of over 100 radio stations and claims 13 million listeners, finally pulled the film 2000 Mules,… Continue Reading →

Latest, News Christian news, Media

Five Christian Sanitation Workers Die in Pakistan

Posted on 16/06/2024 by John Sandeman
Sargodha Satellite Town

By Christian Daily International-Morning Star News LAHORE, Pakistan, June 13, 2024 (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Five Christian sanitation workers in Pakistan have died since Tuesday (June 11) from inhaling toxic gases, highlighting how they are forced to work without… Continue Reading →

Latest, News Christian news, Persecuted Church, Religious Freedom
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Stephen O’Doherty gets an OAM

Posted on 16/06/2024 by John Sandeman
Stephen O'Doherty in a Hope Media Studio

Christian Schools lobbyist, Frontbencher in a NSW Coalition Government, radio host and principal conductor of the Golden Kangaroos Hornsby Concert Band – it can be hard to know what was most pertinent in his award of a Medal of the… Continue Reading →

Latest, News Christian news

You are what you listen to

Posted on 15/06/2024 by John Sandeman
listening ears

Adelaide reader Ben White brings a devotional. So I read this Scripture and it made me give consideration to the idea of what we allow ourselves to dwell upon or focus on is probably a lot more important than we… Continue Reading →

Latest, News Christian living, Christian news

Citipointe College regrets asking parents to sign a contract

Posted on 14/06/2024 by John Sandeman
Citipointe Christian College

After being overly prescriptive in a parent contract, Brisbane’s Citipointe Christian College has issued a statement following a settlement with parents who took the school to the Queensland Human Rights Commission (QHRC). The school asked parents with little notice to… Continue Reading →

Latest, News Christian news, Christian schools, LGBTQIA, Religious Freedom, schools
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Pope Francis uses a controversial word – again.

Posted on 13/06/2024 by John Sandeman
Pope Francis

There was a Vatican apology after Pope Francis used what has been described widely as a gay slur a couple of weeks ago, but the Pontiff has now gone and used the same word again. A Crux story gave the… Continue Reading →

Latest, News Christian news

A puddle, the spirit of the age, and equality in church

Posted on 12/06/2024 by John Sandeman

An Obadiah Slope column C. S. Lewis’ puddle: In “The Weight of Glory,” C. S. Lewis mentions that we are like children, happy to splash about in mud puddles even though we’ve been offered a holiday at sea. Christian preaching… Continue Reading →

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