An Obadiah Slope Column A great interview – or was it a conversation – between David Marr and Helen Garner on ABC’s treasured Radio National’s Late Night Live. The topic, the Erin Patterson murder trial, lends itself to discussing religion, and… Continue Reading
Following up The Other Cheek’s coverage of the sale of churches in Adelaide’s North, and a decline in the attendance in the diocese, Bishop Tim Harris engaged us in discussion and agreed to follow up. In a crucial comment on… Continue Reading
Australia has had a problem with the one-sided non-reporting of the lives of people identifying as transgender by many media outlets. In the wake of the BBC crisis over its reporting of Trump’s January 6 speech, Mediawatch examined three reporting… Continue Reading
Vale Warwick Hood Olson AM (1936 – 2025) There are only a few Australian Christians who have impacted global organisations. Even fewer have massively changed three of them and created a household name in Australia as well. Warwick Olsen crammed… Continue Reading
The Christian youth-based charity Fusion is selling its town. Poatina, 60 km south of Launceston, Tasmania, borders the Great Western Tier Conservation Area. Poatina Village has been the ultimate company town, constructed in the 1960s to house the workforce of… Continue Reading
The Other Cheek often notes how slippery the term “religious leaders” can be when applied to a political statement – usually used to imply widespread support or opposition among Christian or other faiths. Sometimes it is just a bunch of… Continue Reading
“The modern push for women’s ordination did not emerge from careful biblical exegesis or development of doctrine within the Christian Tradition. Rather, it emerged from second-wave feminism, which itself borrowed heavily from Marxist ideology.” That’s a quote from a writer, Venerable… Continue Reading
The rain was holding off as my twin Peter and I navigated the path through the gardens beside Cabrini Hospital in Melbourne’s Malvern. At the start of Cabrini week – and I’ll explain that name later – we had been invited to… Continue Reading
Peter Bentley on closing a ministry It was fifty years ago … It is a melancholy task closing an organisation, but it can also be illuminating and fascinating, particularly when the records are concerned. The Australasian Religious Press Association held its… Continue Reading
Adelaide’s Anglicans deserve credit for openly reporting their stats, but sympathy for what they show. A reader pointed out to The Other Cheek that the attendance stats for each region of the diocese are included in the synod (church parliament)… Continue Reading