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Month: August 2024

A call for an Aboriginal Bishop for Sydney

Posted on 22/08/2024 by John Sandeman
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Sydney’s Anglican Synod will be asked to agree to create and fund a position for the Director of Indigenous Ministry, “to be appointed by the Sydney Anglican Indigenous Peoples’ Ministry Committee (SAIPMC) with the concurrence of the Archbishop. But the… Continue Reading →

Latest, News Anglicans, Christian news, First nations

Bible reading becomes a real epic

Posted on 21/08/2024 by John Sandeman
Simon Camilleri reads

Time was whenever Scripture (and everything else) was read it was read aloud. Think of the Ethiopian eunuch reading in his chariot, and Philip heard him. Simon Camilleri, a graphic designer and book author from the northern suburbs of Melbourne,… Continue Reading →

Latest, News Bible, Christian news

Twenty of our churches contributed 50% of the growth of all the churches: What the Sydney Growth/decline report shows

Posted on 20/08/2024 by John Sandeman
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OPINION Mike Doyle, senior minister of St James Berala, was on the committee writing the Sydney Anglican report on “Attendance Patterns and Mission in the Diocese” Here’ are his personal reflections. I had the opportunity this year to be part of… Continue Reading →

Latest, News, Opinion Anglicans, Christian news, Church growth

So what is a ‘Cheerful Giver’

Posted on 19/08/2024 by John Sandeman
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Adelaide pastor Des Smith has written a book, “The Cheerful Giver’. It’s one of those Bible phrases constantly in danger of being a cliché. So what can Smith do to rescue it? The Other Chhek interviewed him and found out.… Continue Reading →

Latest, News Christian living, Christian news

The AFL’s most Biblical team

Posted on 18/08/2024 by John Sandeman

An Obadiah Slope column A great big sound: Obadiah was sitting in the cheap seats in this weekend’s AFL match between the Fremantle Dockers and the Greater Western Sydney (GWS) Giants – just behind the orange-clad GWS cheer squad. That’s… Continue Reading →

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Michael Jensen on politics was a surprise

Posted on 17/08/2024 by John Sandeman

Book Review by Stephen Driscoll of Subjects and Citizens The Politics of the Gospel: Lessons from Romans 12–15 by Michael Jensen. Michael Jensen‘s new book surprised me, because I was expecting a different kind of book. I expected a book… Continue Reading →

Book Review, Latest, News Christian news, Politics
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Canada is the Anglican Church’s Titanic

Posted on 15/08/2024 by John Sandeman
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The Anglican Church of Canada (ACC) has collapsed, according to David Goodhew, a long-time researcher of Anglican Communion statistics and a visiting fellow of St John’s College, Durham University. “New numbers for the Anglican Church of Canada (ACoC) are out,… Continue Reading →

Latest, News Anglicans, Christian news, Church attendance

Meeting Jesus Christ at the Paris Olympics 

Posted on 15/08/2024 by John Sandeman
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From Marty Woods in paris Hundreds of people in Paris for the Olympics came away with something much better than a gold medal. They came away with a saviour. Missionary organisations and Churches trained and practised for the game, just… Continue Reading →

Latest, News Christian news, evangelism

What Aussie Christians should learn from majority world sisters and brothers

Posted on 14/08/2024 by John Sandeman
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The stand-out fact from The State of the Great Commission report from the evangelical Lausanne Movement is the exponential growth of Christianity in the two-thirds world. It rivals the stories of the early church: “Christian communities that had been planted… Continue Reading →

Latest, News Christian news, evangelism, Majority World

Good reminders, a Michel Foucault reading, and a journalist on suspended-doctor-on-trial Jereth Kok

Posted on 13/08/2024 by John Sandeman

An Obadiah Slope column Good news from Adelaide airport with the launch of Australia’s first “try before you fly” program with Virgin Airlines. Families with an autistic child or people with mobility issues were given the opportunity to board an… Continue Reading →

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