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Month: October 2026

Gordon Cheng, promoted to Glory

Posted on 20/10/2026 by John Sandeman
Gordon Cheng 2024

Gordon Charles Cheng 1961-2026 Bible teacher, author and earnest follower of Jesus, Gordon Cheng, died early this morning. In a varied career he was a staff worker for the Australian Fellowship of Evangelical Students, the resources editor for Matthias Media… Continue Reading →

Latest, News Anglicans, Christian news
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Perth Anglicans vote in favour of a conversion therapy ban

Posted on 20/10/2026 by Shane St Reynolds
Perth Synod 2026

Edited from a report by Shane St Reynolds, who attended the Perth synod as a journalist A motion in support of a conversion ban bill for WA was passed by the Perth Anglican Synod on the weekend. The motion:• Affirms… Continue Reading →

Latest, News Anglicans, Christian news, LGBTQIA

Arthur Boyd was a great religious painter, but was he a Christian?

Posted on 19/10/2026 by Charles Brammall
Arthur Boyd Daniel in the Lions Den

Charles Brammall An important new development has emerged in Boyd studies this year. 2026 has brought unusually revealing curatorial research into Boyd’s religious imagination, although there is no new scholarly study (that I have found) establishing whether he personally professed… Continue Reading →

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Mekyal Keira’s story, from the Nuba mountains in Sudan to pastoring a a church in Kallaroo, WA

Posted on 17/10/2026 by John Sandeman
Mekyal Kiera (centre) being ordained as deacon

Mekyal Keira, pastor of the Kush Southern Cross Anglican Church in Perth will be ordained as a presbyter in the Diocese of the Southern Cross today.  I am Mekyal Keira. When I was 11 years old, I accepted the Lord… Continue Reading →

Latest, News Anglicans, Christian news
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Remembering Barry Dudding who was promoted to glory this morning

Posted on 17/10/2026 by John Sandeman
Barry and Jo Dudding

Barry John Dudding (1944-2026) was rector of St Peter’s Burwood East from 1983 and St James’ Croydon, with which we amalgamated in 1990, until 2012. He previously served in Cowell and Kimba (in the Diocese of Willochra) and in Redfern. … Continue Reading →

Latest, News Anglicans, Christian news

A ‘stole parish’ warmly approved of by Moore College

Posted on 16/10/2026 by John Sandeman

The caricature of Sydney Diocese is that wearing robes, and liturgical worship occurs only in church services that the diocesan centres of power mostly ignore, or even deplore. But reading the latest Moore Matters – the newsletter of Moore Theological… Continue Reading →

Latest, News Anglicans, Christian news

Conversion Therapy Acts – A personal reflection

Posted on 15/10/2026 by Ross Clifford
Hobart and Mount Wellington

OPINION Ross Clifford I personally have come to the conclusion that the Tasmanian proposed Act is a no vote. The one amendment that would reverse that is the removal of all religious/spiritual practices and the Act purely referring to medical/secular… Continue Reading →

Latest, News, Opinion Christian news, LGBTQIA, Religious Freedom
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‘Evangelicals leave the Church of England’ – a long lost speech has been rediscovered

Posted on 15/10/2026 by John Sandeman

A recording of a speech that sent shockwaves around the evangelical world, Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones speaking in 1966 in London, has been rediscovered and made public on the internet by the Martyn Lloyd-Jones trust. A Youtube version is here. (A… Continue Reading →

Latest, News Anglicans, Christian History, Christian news

Latest Research: Jodie Foster

Posted on 14/10/2026 by Charles Brammall
Jodie Foster

Charles Brammall on how God Fosters Jodie Recent Academic scholarship has increasingly treated Jodie Foster not merely as a famous actress, but as a significant cultural figure through whom questions about gender, childhood, and authorship are examinable. Through whom Questions… Continue Reading →

Latest, News Christian news, Movies

Bible Society in the UK finds Christian nationalists less likely to go to church

Posted on 13/10/2026 by John Sandeman
Beyond Christian Nationalism Theos report

Christians closer to the view that you need to be Christian to be truly British, are more likely to be ‘nominal’ when it comes to practice their faith, according to research by Theos, the think tank that is part of… Continue Reading →

Latest, News Christian nationalism, Christian news, Theos, United Kingdom

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