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Month: January 2025

Giving thanks to God and committing to reconciliation

Posted on 15/01/2025 by Neville Naden
Neville Naden

A message from Neville Naden, Indigenous Ministry Officer, The Bush Church Aid Society of Australia. As we approach another Australia Day, I pause to reflect on the blessings we enjoy as Australians, the challenges of our shared history, and the… Continue Reading →

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A final blessing for Arthur Blessitt who carried a cross around the world

Posted on 15/01/2025 by John Sandeman

Arthur Owen Blessitt (1940–2025) Arthur Blessitt, who started carrying his (literal) cross around the world in 1968, has come to the end of his life’s journey. His cross was 3.6 metres of 100m square timber – with a wheel at… Continue Reading →

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Best of the Cheeks: What Aussie Christians should learn from majority world sisters and brothers

Posted on 14/01/2025 by John Sandeman
State of the Great commission report pages

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 in Asia, Africa,… Continue Reading →

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Is this a cultural moment as millions (maybe) hear the gospel

Posted on 14/01/2025 by John Sandeman
Joe Rogan with papyrus

The Not the Bee website – the serious partner to the satirical “Babylon Bee” – conveys the news Joe Rogan’s 14m listeners have been given a serious Christian apologetic from Wes Huff, a speaker from Apologetics Canada and a PhD student at the evangelical… Continue Reading →

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One of Jesus’ ‘Little Ones’

Posted on 13/01/2025 by Charles Brammall

James Oswald (Jimmy) Little was a keen and committed Christian and Yorta Yorta man. He was born in 1937 on the Cummeragunga settlement (called a “mission”, although technically it wasn’t one) near Echuca, on the New South Wales side of… Continue Reading →

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This Sunday is Aboriginal Sunday 2025

Posted on 13/01/2025 by John Sandeman
Aboriginal Flag

Each year, Aboriginal Sunday is held on the Sunday before January 26, continuing the observance Christian Aboriginal leader William Cooper began in 1938, along with a Day of Mourning gathering he led 150 years after white settlement or invasion began… Continue Reading →

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Saved By Good Works.

Posted on 12/01/2025 by John Sandeman
Talking under a tree

A dear friend of mine (now Senior Minister of a church in Sydney) had been a regular churchgoer at a good church, 2-3 times a week since he was in utero (and now he’s about 6’4”!). Many years ago, we… Continue Reading →

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Why the period drama film ‘The Brutalist’ resonated so deeply with me

Posted on 12/01/2025 by John Sandeman
The Brutalist

Daniel Libeskind, the architect of the Jewish Museum in Berlin, reviews The Brutalist, for The Forward, New York via Religion Unplugged (OPINION) It is seldom that one enters a film that resonates with one’s own life. For me, “The Brutalist”… Continue Reading →

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Best of the Cheeks: Hope for Anglicans (and everyone else) and help for those of us nervous to talk about Jesus

Posted on 11/01/2025 by John Sandeman
Hop[e 25 logo

What does it look like for a wide range of Christians to be “sharing hope in Jesus”? Australia is about to find out. Between Easter Sunday (April 20) and Pentecost (June 8, 2025) the Anglican Church “each parish to commit… Continue Reading →

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On Religion: Carter’s piety and politics changed the role of evangelicals in public life

Posted on 11/01/2025 by John Sandeman

Terry Mattingly via Religion Unplugged (ANALYSIS) The young Jimmy Carter was a political nobody the first time he ran for governor of Georgia. That long-shot 1966 effort failed, leaving him wrestling with doubts about his future and his faith. But… Continue Reading →

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