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Month: December 2024

Vic Baptists: How we were consulted on the LGBQA guide to the Change or Suppression (Conversion) Practices Prohibition Act

Posted on 12/12/2024 by John Sandeman
Baptist BUV LGBTQA2

The origins of “Providing safety for LGBTQA People of Faith“, a guide for Baptists to the 2022 Victorian Change or Suppression (Conversion) Practices Prohibition Act has now been detailed to The Other Cheek by a spokesperson for the Baptist Union… Continue Reading →

Latest, News Baptists. Same-sex marriage, Christian news

Why a Mission to Entertainers led to Church Planting

Posted on 11/12/2024 by John Sandeman
Enter logo

Charles Brammall explains why setting up a mission to entertainers, called ENTER, also meant setting up a church in the local school. Our most important strategy to drive and support the mission was to plant ENTER and its church in… Continue Reading →

Latest, News Anglicans, Christian news, evangelism
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Vic Baptists told what they can say about sex – and what they can’t

Posted on 10/12/2024 by John Sandeman

Restrictions on what to say about sex features in “Providing safety for LGBTQA People of Faith” and labeled as “A guide for the Baptist Union of Victoria (BUV) ” published by the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission (VEOHRC).… Continue Reading →

Latest, News Baptists. Same-sex marriage, Christian news, Religious Freedom

Morling College spreads to four city campuses

Posted on 09/12/2024 by John Sandeman
Morling logo

The Baptist Morling College, until 2021, soley operating out of its Sydney campus, becomes a four city operation in 2025. Morling now has courses available in Melbourne taught in person at the main Crossway Baptist Church campus in Burwood East.… Continue Reading →

Latest, News Baptists, Christian news, Education

Another landmark church goes on sale: does it mark a retreat

Posted on 07/12/2024 by John Sandeman
St Kilda Presbyterian

St Kilda’s landmark St Andrews Presbyterian Church, a huge building, has just gone on the market. On the brow of a hill, it is one of the Melbourne suburb’s main features. “At the corner of Alma and Barkly Streets, the… Continue Reading →

Latest, News Anglicans, Baptists, Christian news, Presbyterians

Four years of Trump: Where might US Evangelicalism be in 2029?

Posted on 07/12/2024 by John Sandeman
Trump is my president

ANALYSIS Richard Osling via Religion Unplugged Whatever their partisan preferences, Americans can agree that the coming four years under President Donald Trump will bring major disruptions and contentions in politics. How might that affect religion? In particular, what’s now at… Continue Reading →

Latest, News Christian news, US Christians
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God said: Tell the children the story. Is this what we are doing?

Posted on 05/12/2024 by Graham McDonald

Graham McDonald on passing on our faith to our children How can Christians stay true to their faith over generations and across cultural boundaries? In the Old Testament, we read about the wise way that God instructed His people, and… Continue Reading →

Latest, News Children, Christian news, evangelism
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Rico Tice could be the Pastor Barbara of the Smyth case

Posted on 05/12/2024 by John Sandeman
John Smyth

Compare the pair: Rico tice, leader of the Christianity Explored course used by evangelicals around the world and former associate minister of All Souls Langham Place in central London, and pastor Barbara Taylor, who ministers at the rather less well-known… Continue Reading →

Latest, News Anglicans, Christian news, Pentecostals

I was the minister but my student minister re-educated me

Posted on 04/12/2024 by Bob Thomas
Greg Goswell and Bob Thomas

When the teacher gets taught by the student … Bob Thomas, who is so good at being a Presbyterian that he’s been Moderator General of the Presbyterian Church of Australia, had a lot to learn about being a reformed minister.… Continue Reading →

Latest, News Christian news, Presbyterians

International day of  Mephibosheth

Posted on 03/12/2024 by John Sandeman
IDPWD

“What is your servant, that you should notice a dead dog like me?” Mephibiboseth, the son of Jonathan and the last of the house of Saul pleads before a victorious King, David. (2 Samuel 9:8) Jonathan and his father, King… Continue Reading →

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