A collaborative website supported by the NCLS (National Church Life Survey) and church plant advocates Exponential Australia, newchurches.org.au, is designed to make it much easier to appreciate how much church planting is currently happening in Australia. 81 plants are listed… Continue Reading
Ministers and lay staff in a Church of England diocese (region) can now have union representation. The English midlands diocese of Leicester has signed an agreement with the “Unite” Trade Union. “Leicester diocese of the Church of England has signed… Continue Reading
The revelation by Melbourne talk radio host Neil Mitchell that he had been told our former PM had significant mental health issues has opened up discussion about the strain of high office. Psychologist Bianca Denny wrote in the Sydney Morning… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope Column Photo search: Anglican Futures, a website run by Susie and Dan Leafe, English evangelicals who are fed up with the Church of England have been busy doing a spot of photo analysis. This is the pic… Continue Reading
A paper that explains why social campaigning that seeks to reduce gendered violence might contain some useful lessons for the church, especially conservative evangelicals. “Rethinking Primary Prevention“, a paper by journalist/educator Jess Hill and Michael Salter, the Professor of Criminology… Continue Reading
Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel returned to his Christ the Good Shepherd church on the weekend – Psalm Sunday in the Eastern calendar – and revealed in his Arabic sermon that he had lost sight in one eye, according to a… Continue Reading
A “way forward framework” for the Lutheran Church in Australia New Zealand (LCANZ) to “operate as on”to operate as one church with two different practices of ordination” has been proposed as a response to a decades-long debate over Women’s Ordination.… Continue Reading
The trope that evangelical church networks grow while progressive denominations shrink is, sadly, a half-truth. Perhaps a three=quater truth. It is true that progressive denominations shrink. Political Scientist Ryan Burge does a good round-up of the religious experiment that is… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope column Now that Scott Morrison’s memoir Plans for Your Good: A Prime Minister’sTestimony of God’s Faithfulness has been given a more than decent plug in The Weekend Australian, the book’s readership has been given more of a… Continue Reading
The answer to the question “Is sexuality dividing the church in Australia?” is a decided “yes!” for Mark Durie, a Senior Research Fellow at the Melbourne School of Theology. He makes the case in his new book Double Minded: How… Continue Reading