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Author: John Sandeman

I bought a globe. You should too.

Posted on 19/03/2025 by John Sandeman
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Michael Kellahan Executive Director of Gafcon (Global Anglican Future Conference) Australia on being globally aware. I bought a beaten-up second-hand globe from a charity shop for $12. It looks a bit faded and fragile, but it does the job. It… Continue Reading →

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Jesus is in control – a new video for kids at Easter

Posted on 18/03/2025 by John Sandeman
Jesus in Control Quiz Worx

Quiz Worx, which has been introducing kids to Jesus through puppetry and gospel-focused scripting since 1998, have just launched their 2025 video Jesus is in Control. “How often do things around us feel out of control? People get sick, families… Continue Reading →

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This year’s big anniversary: 1700 years of the Nicene Creed

Posted on 17/03/2025 by John Sandeman

Jesus is “true God from true God,” “begotten not made,” and “of one substance with the Father.” These truths that lie at the heart of our Christian faith were formed into these words 1700 years ago, at Nicaea, now Izmir,… Continue Reading →

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A Bible-based condemnation of Trump’s foreign policy

Posted on 16/03/2025 by John Sandeman
Independence All created equal

Trump’s “might is right” foreign policy should concern Christians according to evangelicals, New York Times columnist David French and public theologian Curtis Chang, a consulting faculty of Duke Divinity School. They dug into a theology of foreign policy in a… Continue Reading →

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Missionaries: the flaw in J D Vance and the order of love

Posted on 15/03/2025 by John Sandeman

Re-lent: Canon Phillipa Lohmeyer-Collins preached at St Paul’s cathedral, Melbourne, on the “heart work” of Lent, which is the effort we owe in repentance. Lent, it strikes me as a person who attends a church which does not emphasise the… Continue Reading →

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3,000 dead in Goma, DRC; Anglican Aid reports

Posted on 15/03/2025 by John Sandeman
Goma, DRC

Tim Swan CEO of Angican Aid issues an urgent update. We have just heard from Bishop Martin Gordon in Goma. He said that at least 3,000 people have been killed in his city. Many thousands have been injured, and hospitals… Continue Reading →

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Christian political party wins a seat in the WA election

Posted on 12/03/2025 by John Sandeman
Maryka Groenewald

For the first time ever the Australian Christians  political party has won a seat in the WA election. Maryka Groenewald,the WA State Director of the party has won a seat in the state’s 37 member upper house, the Legislative council. The… Continue Reading →

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Melbourne Anglicans accused of submiting to conversion therapy law

Posted on 12/03/2025 by John Sandeman
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The Anglican Archdiocese of Melbourne (ADOM) has been alleged to have amended its Code of Conduct for Child Safety & Wellbeing in a manner which forces church workers to obey Victoria’s Change or Suppression (Conversion) Practices Prohibition Act (CSP ACT).… Continue Reading →

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Mark Leach, co-founder of ‘Never Again is Now’ on leaving church ministry.

Posted on 12/03/2025 by John Sandeman

When Mark Leach, then the senior minister of Rozelle Anglican Church in inner Sydney, heard of a pro-Palestinian demonatration being held in the CBD within a couple of days of the massacre and kidnappings of October 7, 2023 he protested… Continue Reading →

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Re-lenting: Praying in Melbourne

Posted on 10/03/2025 by John Sandeman
St Pauls Cathedral Melbourne

Un-expectedly in Melbourne, caring for a sibling who was rushed to hospital, Sunday morning saw me at St Paul’s Cathedral, challenged to take lent – the season of reflection and repentance leading up to Easter – very seriously. At the… Continue Reading →

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