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I visited 250,000 dead people in Kigali

Posted on 17/04/2023 by John Sandeman
Names of some victims of the Rwandan genocide against the Tutsi

To fly into Kigali, Rwanda, is to be confronted with human evil while in town to meet with Christians. The Irony of this location is immense, the city where women and children who had fled into a church were slaughtered… Continue Reading →

Latest, News Christian news, Genocide

The first ex-Uniting Church joins the Diocese of the Southern Cross

Posted on 16/04/2023 by John Sandeman
Hedley Fihaki

At least a couple of ex-Uniting Churches have been pondering whether to join the new Diocese of the Southern Cross, an Anglican lifeboat set up to look after conservative churches in progressive dioceses (church regions). Now the first ex-Uniting Church… Continue Reading →

Latest, News Anglicans, Christian news, Same-sex marriage, Uniting Church
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Cornerstone: the Jesus Revolution went and lived in Bourke, and thrives today

Posted on 15/04/2023 by John Sandeman
Cornerstone class outside the Pera Bore schoolhouse, mid 90s

A long-time member of the Cornerstone community, Paul Roe, unpacks the history of the Jesus people who went and lived in the bush, founding communities that live today Right now, the movie tracking the explosive arrival of the Jesus Movement… Continue Reading →

Latest, News Christian news, Church planting, Community
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The Other Cheek is off to Africa this weekend: the future of evangelicals in the Anglican Communion is at stake

Posted on 14/04/2023 by John Sandeman
Gafcon logo

The Other Cheek is going to Africa this weekend. Destination: Kigali, the capital of Rwanda. The reason: the meeting of Gafcon – the Global Anglican Futures Conference, which draws together the evangelicals, charismatics and conservative Anglo Catholics who make up… Continue Reading →

Latest, News Anglicans, Christian news, Gafcon

An ex-Uniting Church gets a church plant – from another Uniting Church

Posted on 13/04/2023 by John Sandeman
Seeds Kurralta Park

The Uniting Church is closing churches, right? Well, actually, there’s also some church planting by evangelical groups in the Uniting Church, sometimes into old Uniting church buildings that have seen better days. Kurralta Park, an inner suburb of Adelaide, might… Continue Reading →

Latest, News Christian news, Church planting, Uniting Church
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Peter Dutton, Rehoboam, Jeroboam, Kanishka Raffel and ‘the voice’

Posted on 12/04/2023 by John Sandeman
Larissa Minniecon on QandA (with her father Ray on the left)

An Obadiah Slope column. Obadiah is curious to know if Peter Dutton was away the week they studied 1 Kings or 2 Chronicles at his alma mater, St Paul’s Anglican School, Bald Hills. But Dutton would have learned a valuable… Continue Reading →

Latest, News, Obadiah Slope Christian news, First nations, The Voice
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The medical evidence for teen gender transition is weak

Posted on 11/04/2023 by John Sandeman
worryingly weak text

“Worryingly weak” is how the socially liberal Economist magazine describes the medical evidence for teen gender transitions. While America’s medical authorities support the “gender affirming care” system pioneered in the Netherlands, those in Britain, Finland, France, Norway and Sweden have… Continue Reading →

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Religious leaders warmly respond to the Uluru Statement

Posted on 10/04/2023 by John Sandeman

A new book, Statements from the Soul, gathers essays that read as cries from the heart from religious leaders who back a positive response to the Uluru Statement from the Heart, including Indigenous Voice in some fo… Notable essays for… Continue Reading →

Book Review, Latest, News Christian news, First nations

A poem to honour the risen Christ

Posted on 09/04/2023 by John Sandeman

By Your Kingly Power, O Risen Lord A poem and hymn praising the risen Christ by James McAuley By your kingly pow’r, O risen Lord,All that Adam lost is now restored:In your resurrection be adored. Sing the joyful Easter cry,Sound… Continue Reading →

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Imprisoned spirit(s), an embarrassing leak, and unpredictable readers

Posted on 08/04/2023 by John Sandeman

Imprisoned spirits: As we remember Jesus’ body in the tomb, let’s pause to think also of sisters and brothers of the persecuted church, some literally imprisoned, others bound by acts of persecution. Morning Star News reported as Easter began that… Continue Reading →

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