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Mediawatch gives ABC a slap for gaps in reporting trans stories

Posted on 18/11/2025 by John Sandeman

Australia has had a problem with the one-sided non-reporting of the lives of people identifying as transgender by many media outlets. In the wake of the BBC crisis over its reporting of Trump’s January 6 speech, Mediawatch examined three reporting… Continue Reading →

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An Aussie Christian with a global impact: Warwick Olson

Posted on 17/11/2025 by John Sandeman
Warwick Olson

Vale Warwick Hood Olson AM (1936 – 2025) There are only a few Australian Christians who have impacted global organisations. Even fewer have massively changed three of them and created a household name in Australia as well. Warwick Olsen crammed… Continue Reading →

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End of an era as Poatina, the Christian town in Tasmania, will become more of a normal town

Posted on 16/11/2025 by John Sandeman
Poatina

The Christian youth-based charity Fusion is selling its town. Poatina, 60 km south of Launceston, Tasmania, borders the Great Western Tier Conservation Area. Poatina Village has been the ultimate company town, constructed in the 1960s to house the workforce of… Continue Reading →

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Church leaders, and we mean leaders, support bill to not have VAD in religious aged care facilities.

Posted on 15/11/2025 by John Sandeman
assisted suicide

The Other Cheek often notes how slippery the term “religious leaders” can be when applied to a political statement – usually used to imply widespread support or opposition among Christian or other faiths. Sometimes it is just a bunch of… Continue Reading →

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A myth busted about women’s ordination

Posted on 13/11/2025 by John Sandeman

“The modern push for women’s ordination did not emerge from careful biblical exegesis or development of doctrine within the Christian Tradition. Rather, it emerged from second-wave feminism, which itself borrowed heavily from Marxist ideology.” That’s a quote from a writer, Venerable… Continue Reading →

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A surprise as her hospital remembers my sister Sylvia’s service

Posted on 12/11/2025 by John Sandeman
Sylvia's Cabrini memorial

The rain was holding off as my twin Peter and I navigated the path through the gardens beside Cabrini Hospital in Melbourne’s Malvern. At the start of Cabrini week – and I’ll explain that name later – we had been invited to… Continue Reading →

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Adelaide Anglicans’ massive decline

Posted on 11/11/2025 by John Sandeman

Adelaide’s Anglicans deserve credit for openly reporting their stats, but sympathy for what they show. A reader pointed out to The Other Cheek that the attendance stats for each region of the diocese are included in the synod (church parliament)… Continue Reading →

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‘Obscene as cancer’ On Remembrance Day, a poem that says what WWI was really like

Posted on 10/11/2025 by John Sandeman
WWI Treches 1918

Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs,And towards our distant rest began to trudge.Men marched asleep. Many had… Continue Reading →

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Christian Schools Australia claims public school enrolments are declining. They are right.

Posted on 09/11/2025 by John Sandeman

My Christian School, a newsletter from Christian Schools Australia, makes the claim “public school enrolments are on the decline.” in an email dated 5 November. They provide two links to back this claim  • A Herald Sun Story that “Low… Continue Reading →

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Two more churches told to leave NSW Baptists

Posted on 08/11/2025 by John Sandeman

Two more churches have now formally left the NSW/ACT Baptist Association for not accepting a conservative view of marriage adopted by the Association. A long process of disaffiliation is now complete, and Seaforth Baptist and Avalon Peace Baptist, both in… Continue Reading →

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