Byron and Keira Hordyk (pictured) have won a case of religious discrimination after a welfare agency rejected the Christian couple as “unsafe” to foster 0-5-year-old children because of their Christian beliefs on sexuality and gender. John Steenhof, principal layer for… Continue Reading
“Claims of the Aborigines,” preached by Rev John Saunders in the Bathurst Street Baptist Church, Sydney, on 14 October 1838. John Saunders is regarded as the effective founder of the Australian Baptist movement.The Myall Creek massacre, the killing of at least twenty-eight… Continue Reading
Melbourne’s largest Pentecostal church, Planetshakers, has planted a local campus in the heart of Sydney’s North, on the Macquarie university campus. After six months, it has attracted a core group of several hundred attendees. Planetshakers and another large Pentecostal church… Continue Reading
In a sermon for Aboriginal Sunday (a name for the Sunday before January 26), Kanishka Raffel, the Anglican Archbishop of Sydney, honoured the work of William Cooper, a Christian First Nations man who called the Aboriginal people to observe a… Continue Reading
While the Sydney Anglican Synod voted last year urging that “church members to give generous consideration to the case to vote ‘Yes’ to the referendum question of whether the Constitution should establish a First Nations Voice, once the details have… Continue Reading
Picking a successor, maintaining integrity, mental health, women’s ordination and dealing with grief By Warren Cole Smith of Ministry Watch via Religion Unplugged For most people who have been around evangelicalism over the past 40 years, Rick Warren needs no… Continue Reading
Draft prayers released by the Church of England, intended to be used for blessing relationships including civilly married same-sex couple contain vows and include the use of rings, much like many marriage ceremonies. “Prayers of love and faith” redescribed as… Continue Reading
North Korea is back on top of The World Watch list, produced annually by Open Doors, as the worst place in the world to live as a Christian. “North Korea’s score of 98, the highest score that’s ever been recorded… Continue Reading
A response to the news that the Church of England bishops propose the blessing of same-sex civil marriages from Foley Beach, Chair of the Gafcon Primates Council – (Gafcon is a network of conservative Anglicans.) “I write to you with… Continue Reading
It took two world-level sporting careers, extreme highs and bitter lows, for Iona Rossely to be fully formed in her faith. Although she was one of the\fastest women in the world at her speed skiing, God outpaced her in the… Continue Reading