Travelling North from Sydney towards Queensland, the Inland route by train or car takes you through Armidale, seat of the evangelical diocese of the same name, and the coastal route takes you through Grafton, the cathedral city of a progressive… Continue Reading
The Health Ministry in Gaza is claiming 35,091 people have been killed in the territory during more than seven months of war between Israel and Hamas as of May 13. The Health Ministry is run by Hamas, which is listed… Continue Reading
This is not likely to be reported, Simon Gillham, Vice Principal of Moore College said during a talk he gave at the college’s open night last week. “I can see a few people with cameras around the newspapers haven’t got… Continue Reading
Richard Ostling via Religion Unplugged (ANALYSIS) Making history last week, delegates at a United Methodist Church General Conference in Charlotte agreed to allow same-sex clergy and marriages. Each UMC conference the past 52 years had upheld centuries-old heterosexual restrictions, most… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope column Let’s hear it for evensong: It was a busy evening – evensong for ascension day in the cathedral, then onto a play – that turned out to be a study of contrast.At Evensong, we prayed for a… Continue Reading
Church leaders faced intense questions at Victoria’s Yoorrook Justice Inquiry’s “Share Land, Sky and Water hearings” into First Nations’ dispossession. This truth-telling commission is the first major governmental response since the Voice referendum. The church leaders who appeared before the… Continue Reading
Today is Ascension Day, so named because Jesus has ascended—that is, he has gone up to live with his Father in heaven. As the Bible puts it, Jesus was speaking with the apostles when “he was taken up before their very… Continue Reading
Filling the vacuum left by the demise of the Christian Democratic Party in NSW, Lyle Shelton, former head of the Australian Christian Lobby, has announced that he will head the Family First Ticket for NSW. The Party has achieved registration… Continue Reading
A statement from Gafcon (Global Anglican Futures) Chair Laurent Mbanda of Rwanda. To my dear Anglican brothers and sisters contending for the faith once delivered to the saints, Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord… Continue Reading
Shadow Attorney-General Michaelia Cash told a rally of Christian Schools supporters last night that new laws proposed by the Albanese government will adopt the Australian Law Reform Commission recommendations to reduce protections for schools. “The government has not released, as… Continue Reading