Senior Minister of Jamberoo Jodie McNeil has been named to a key role in the conservative Anglican movement, Gafcon (Global Anglican Futures conference). Here is the announcement by Paul Donison the Gafcon General Secretary and a Texas-based senior minister who… Continue Reading
What does it look like for a wide range of Christians to be “sharing hope in Jesus”? Australia is about to find out. Between Easter Sunday (April 20) and Pentecost (June 8, 2025) the Anglican Church “each parish to commit… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope column AI’s bias: Historian Stephen Chavura has done some useful contemporary research. AI “I just asked Meta to make up a joke about Jesus and a joke about Mohammed. This is what I got.” He posted on… Continue Reading
“I’m a survivor of domestic and family violence and I have not necessarily been safe to say that publicly because part of the perpetration has happened within church or people who are leaders of churches or religious spaces or Bible… Continue Reading
Australia and Tanzania, on opposite sides of the Indian Ocean, form a good test case (with a positive result) of whether Christianity is of earthy use. An Anglican Aid seminar asking, “Is education God’s answer to world poverty?” revealed the… Continue Reading
This week’s Faith Hope and Love conference confronting domestic violence, organised by the Anglican Church’s Families and Culture Commission and Common Grace, was just about wrapped up when a voice from the Northern Territory said they had something special to… Continue Reading
An excerpt from Mastered by the Word: A step-by-step guide to understanding and applying the Bible by. Craig Hamilton, which as the title says, is a guide to reading the Bible in everyday language. Reading the Bible is a huge… Continue Reading
The Jerusalem church leaders have issued a new call for “the urgent need to conclude the present war, to turn from the pursuit of death and destruction towards the promotion of life and peace.” The statement clearly avoids the sort… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope column A special visit to St. Andrews Cathedral: Obadiah went on something of a pilgrimage to his boyhood, travelling into the city last Sunday because all the cathedral songs were by Bishop Timothy Dudley-Smith, who died in… Continue Reading
New rules restricting the use of Non-disclosure Agreements (NDAs) have been recommended to the Sydney Anglican Synod (church parliament), which meets later this month. The proposals seek to limit the use of NDAs except in some very limited situations. Uphold,… Continue Reading