Whovian Charles Brammell remembers…. As a child a would tell what I considered a hilarious joke: ‘Knock knock’ “Who’s there?” ‘Dr’ “Dr Who?” ‘Dr Who on channel 2!’ Later on, at boarding school, straight after dinner the whole of the… Continue Reading
Lance Lawton sees very different Anglican groups sharing one brand. It’s been argued in parts 1 & 2 that the Anglican Communion (AC) is not fit for purpose in the twenty-first century. The present protracted upheavals over radically differing views and practices regarding sexuality… Continue Reading
The conservative Anglican network Gafcon’s announcement last week that the Global Anglican Communion is here and the traditional links to the Archbishop of Canterbury should be ignored has been interpreted in different ways. So who is right? Have Gafcon left… Continue Reading
Murray Campbell The Baptist Union of Victoria (BUV) and Whitley College are going to the Supreme Court. It is a sad state of affairs. This isn’t anything to gloat about or take joy in. After all, the Scriptures warn us… Continue Reading
Charles Brammall My opening to a work I submitted at Bible college on “Heaven”, was the lyric from a David Byrne (Talking Heads) song, “Heaven”: “Everyone is trying to get to the barThe name of the bar, the bar is… Continue Reading
A communique from Gafcon, the conservative Global Anglican Futures network, which speaks for the overwheming majority of Anglicans as measured by church attendance, makes the strong claim that the future of Anglicanism has arrived. The communique declares that the old… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope column Offended: Section 18c of the Racial Discrimination Act, which offers a low bar to establishing a case of discrimination. 18c “makes it unlawful to do an act in public if: the act is reasonably likely to… Continue Reading
Lance Lawton asks Is it time to disinvent global Anglicanism? The international body known as the Anglican Communion (AC) was created by the first Lambeth Conference of Bishops in 1867. In round figures that makes it 150 years old. As such it is a… Continue Reading
Behind the current crises in universities, of issues of funding, trust, and relevance, is a deeper issue, a long-term process of secularisation in Western society in the form of this year’s New College, UNSW, lectures, held this week. The presenter,… Continue Reading
“I’ve got a million stories where I’ve just cried in my walk-in robe [It’s] because I’m not allowed to preach … it hurts. I’ve had that pain, but I’m not walking away from my [church].” This quote heads a paper featuring women… Continue Reading