A eulogy by John Sandeman at the thanksgiving service for Sylvia Sandeman at Rosanna Baptist Church on Thursday June 12, 2025. Today, we farewell our big sister, aunt, and great aunt, Sylvia Ellen Sandeman. We are a complicated family, one… Continue Reading
The widely respected indigenous leader Aunty Jean Phillips was awarded a Medal of the Ordaer of Australia (OAM) in the latest King’s birthday honours. After decades of leadership, Phillips might be most widely known across the continent due to her… Continue Reading
“Just heavenly: Holy listings boom across Vic as churches sell up” is the headline in a Herald -Sun story about the market activity in buildings designed as churches. The Catholics are quoted as saying they rarely close and sell a… Continue Reading
An excerpt from Motherhood: How the gospel shapes our purpose and priorities by Jocelyn Loane There is a gap of nearly six years between our third and fourth children (twins) and our fifth. Some of this time was a planned… Continue Reading
A new survey released this week by the widely repected Pew Research organisation reveals that while “Christians remained the world’s biggest religious group,” … “Christians (of all denominations, counted as one group) did not keep pace with global population growth from… Continue Reading
Learning to be present: Journeying up and down to Melbourne for the last three months to visit my sister Sylvia in hospital, for a short time in rehab, and now preparing for her funeral, rotating in and out of those… Continue Reading
Entertainment industry chaplain Charles Brammall at the epicentre of Australian acting Professor Ken Healey, lovely, God-fearing History of Theatre lecturer at NIDA, invited me to lecture the whole of the student body on “The Lasting Effect of the Judeo-Christian Heritage… Continue Reading
Gwenneth Lillian Roberts has been described as a “trailblazing ordination of women campaigner, mother of six, nurse and midwife, childbirth educator and social justice advocate.” Roberts has been appointed a Member (AM) of the Order of Australia for “significant service… Continue Reading
The Other Cheek remembers my big sister Sylvia Sandeman who died late last month: A Sermon on Amos 7: 7-17, Luke 10: 25–37 & Colossians 1: 1–14 by Sylvia Sandeman As I read the Lectionary passages for today one word… Continue Reading
The last three months I have lived two lives, taking turns with my twin Peter travelling in and out of Melbourne to support my sister, Sylvia Ellen Sandeman in Hospital, in what turned out to be her last battle. We… Continue Reading