Richard Ostling via Religion Unplugged (ANALYSIS) Turnout! Due to the stay-at-home factor, Democratic votes for president fell by some nine million from 2020, causing political scientist James Galbraith to say the party had committed “suicide.” Kamala Harris and the Democrats… Continue Reading
OBITUARY William Lawrence “Laurie” MacIntosh (1937-2024) dairyman, pastor and leader of the Cornerstone Community, a christian training insitute which he dounded at Pera Bore 20km west of Bourke. For 30 years Laurie Macintosh led the Cornerstone community, which planted self… Continue Reading
Charles Brammall on starting a niche ministry – not the easiest thing to do. He takes us behind the scenes of founding the Entertainment Bible Ministry (ENTER); starting with another niche ministry that gave him a leg up. Vignette- Christians… Continue Reading
Sunday Bloody Sunday: To the Sydney Opera House’s Bowels (the drama theatre) to watch a very Melbourne play, Sunday. An artistic muse and social radical from the heart of the Melbourne establismnet Sunday Reed have always been a figure on… Continue Reading
Pentecostalism, now the second-largest Christian movement by attendance in Australia, owes its birth to women ministers. Barry Chant, a great historian of Australian Pentecostalism, points out one great distinctive in his Phd thesis: “Of the eighteen Pentecostal churches founded in… Continue Reading
In October the Egyptian government has legalised 293 church buildings, bringing the total of legalised churches to 3,453 according to a government committee set up to oversee a process of giving churches legal protection. The committee is chaired by Prime… Continue Reading
The biennial Conference on Science and Christianity will feature three days (November 29 to December 1) of wide-ranging topics from Artificial intelligence and the “techno-optimist” mindset to the Bible and emerging ideas on gender. It is organisted by ISCAST a… Continue Reading
Leknath KC tells The Other Cheek what is like to follow Christ in Nepal I was born and brought up in the western part of Nepal,in Dhaulagiri Rural Municipality-7 in Myagdi District which is a very rural part of Western… Continue Reading
The NSW Labor government has demonstrated its support for volunteer religious teaching in public schools and acted on the need to protect students victimised over their religion. A helpline to report religious intolerance is now available for NSW public schools.… Continue Reading
Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury and the leader of the Church of England, has resigned – because he failed to act in the case of serial abuser John Smyth. Last week, the Makin Report, detailing a decades-long cover-up, was… Continue Reading