Brian Houston, the founder of Hillsong, has returned to court for final submissions in his trial on a charge of failing to report his father Frank Houston’s sexual assault of a child. Brett Sengstock, the victim, is also in court… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope column Coming in at number 27: Recently, The Other Cheek ran a story on reports that Crocodiles and reptiles have virgin births, all true, apparently. This was a clever response to the Reuters version. Obadiah loves a… Continue Reading
“Parents are choosing for this to be a part of a child’s, experience at school; Hundreds of thousands of parents are across the state, have said they want this,” David Baker, co-chair of the Multi-Faith RI Network Religious Instruction Network… Continue Reading
OPINION: Analysis by David Smith, University of Sydney from The Conversation. Ron DeSantis’s re-election as governor of Florida was one of the few bright spots for Republicans in an otherwise disappointing 2022 midterm election. DeSantis originally won the governorship by… Continue Reading
A video piece reflecting on baptism has won the Ramsay Art Prize, worth $100,000 for artists under 40. Ida Sophia’s video Witness is the first time a performance piece has won a major Australian art prize, according to The Sydney… Continue Reading
They don’t want to be put up as doing a spectacular job because they have a long way to go. Still, Minchinbury Anglican Church in Sydney’s West is having a real crack at making their church a place of welcome… Continue Reading
TV presenter Marc Fennell asks, “Who will inherit the Kingdom?’ as SBS examines the future of Pentecostalism beyond the Hillsong controversies and his personal journey out of faith. The doco, now available on SBS on demand and screening on their… Continue Reading
Not a crock: Obadiah was stopped in his tracks, reading a New York Times headline. “Scientists Discover a Virgin Birth in a Crocodile”. An incubated egg from a female Croc living alone produced a stillborn baby. But the story by… Continue Reading
David Bennett, whose journey from gay student activist to a celibate follower of Jesus is chronicled in his book A War of Loves, has called on the conservative Anglican movement Gafcon (Global Anglican Futures Conference) to dissociate itself from new… Continue Reading
The Other Cheek interviews Steve Dixon, who has just got behind the desk as CEO of the Baptist church’s Bedford College in north west Sydney. Steve, you have just become head of a unique institution – most Australian post-school education… Continue Reading