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Senators behaving badly, and a letter expressing hope in the English churches

Posted on 16/01/2025 by John Sandeman

Is this the best they can do: Responding to questions from Virginia Senator Tim Kaine about Peter Hegseth, the nominee for Secretary of Defence, about having fathered a child by the Fox News presenter who became his third wife while… Continue Reading →

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4,476 Christians killed for their faith in 2024

Posted on 16/01/2025 by John Sandeman
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4,476 Christians were killed, and 4,744 Christians were detained or imprisoned in 2025, according to the World Watch list compiled by Open Doors. “Though fewer Christians were killed for their faith in Nigeria compared to last year, it remains disproportionately deadly for… Continue Reading →

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A final blessing for Arthur Blessitt who carried a cross around the world

Posted on 15/01/2025 by John Sandeman

Arthur Owen Blessitt (1940–2025) Arthur Blessitt, who started carrying his (literal) cross around the world in 1968, has come to the end of his life’s journey. His cross was 3.6 metres of 100m square timber – with a wheel at… Continue Reading →

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Best of the Cheeks: What Aussie Christians should learn from majority world sisters and brothers

Posted on 14/01/2025 by John Sandeman
State of the Great commission report pages

The stand-out fact from The State of the Great Commission report from the evangelical Lausanne Movement is the exponential growth of Christianity in the two-thirds world. It rivals the stories of the early church: “Christian communities that had been planted in Asia, Africa,… Continue Reading →

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Is this a cultural moment as millions (maybe) hear the gospel

Posted on 14/01/2025 by John Sandeman
Joe Rogan with papyrus

The Not the Bee website – the serious partner to the satirical “Babylon Bee” – conveys the news Joe Rogan’s 14m listeners have been given a serious Christian apologetic from Wes Huff, a speaker from Apologetics Canada and a PhD student at the evangelical… Continue Reading →

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This Sunday is Aboriginal Sunday 2025

Posted on 13/01/2025 by John Sandeman
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Each year, Aboriginal Sunday is held on the Sunday before January 26, continuing the observance Christian Aboriginal leader William Cooper began in 1938, along with a Day of Mourning gathering he led 150 years after white settlement or invasion began… Continue Reading →

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Saved By Good Works.

Posted on 12/01/2025 by John Sandeman
Talking under a tree

A dear friend of mine (now Senior Minister of a church in Sydney) had been a regular churchgoer at a good church, 2-3 times a week since he was in utero (and now he’s about 6’4”!). Many years ago, we… Continue Reading →

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Why the period drama film ‘The Brutalist’ resonated so deeply with me

Posted on 12/01/2025 by John Sandeman
The Brutalist

Daniel Libeskind, the architect of the Jewish Museum in Berlin, reviews The Brutalist, for The Forward, New York via Religion Unplugged (OPINION) It is seldom that one enters a film that resonates with one’s own life. For me, “The Brutalist”… Continue Reading →

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Best of the Cheeks: Hope for Anglicans (and everyone else) and help for those of us nervous to talk about Jesus

Posted on 11/01/2025 by John Sandeman
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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 →

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On Religion: Carter’s piety and politics changed the role of evangelicals in public life

Posted on 11/01/2025 by John Sandeman

Terry Mattingly via Religion Unplugged (ANALYSIS) The young Jimmy Carter was a political nobody the first time he ran for governor of Georgia. That long-shot 1966 effort failed, leaving him wrestling with doubts about his future and his faith. But… Continue Reading →

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