Livestreams from Kigali day 2
Day two of the Gafcon conference This screen will run the official sessions live and on replay. Plus interviews from “The heart of Kigali” which go live before and after each official session.
Author: John Sandeman
Tennant creek, the voice, Kigali and the Jesus revolution
An Obadiah Slope column On the way to Kigali, I awoke as we passed over Tennant Creek and reached inside my bag to read a little more of Dean Ashenden’s Telling Tenant’s Story – his personal account of the town,… Continue Reading
Watch live: Global Anglicans come together in Kigali, seeking to define the denomination’s future
“We are excited to be here this week,” said Archbishop Foley Beach, Chair of the Gafcon Primates Council, at the media conference kicking off a meeting of the conservative Anglican group in Kigali, Rwanda. “We have about 1300 folks that… Continue Reading
I visited 250,000 dead people in Kigali
To fly into Kigali, Rwanda, is to be confronted with human evil while in town to meet with Christians. The Irony of this location is immense, the city where women and children who had fled into a church were slaughtered… Continue Reading
The first ex-Uniting Church joins the Diocese of the Southern Cross
At least a couple of ex-Uniting Churches have been pondering whether to join the new Diocese of the Southern Cross, an Anglican lifeboat set up to look after conservative churches in progressive dioceses (church regions). Now the first ex-Uniting Church… Continue Reading
Cornerstone: the Jesus Revolution went and lived in Bourke, and thrives today
A long-time member of the Cornerstone community, Paul Roe, unpacks the history of the Jesus people who went and lived in the bush, founding communities that live today Right now, the movie tracking the explosive arrival of the Jesus Movement… Continue Reading
The Other Cheek is off to Africa this weekend: the future of evangelicals in the Anglican Communion is at stake
The Other Cheek is going to Africa this weekend. Destination: Kigali, the capital of Rwanda. The reason: the meeting of Gafcon – the Global Anglican Futures Conference, which draws together the evangelicals, charismatics and conservative Anglo Catholics who make up… Continue Reading
An ex-Uniting Church gets a church plant – from another Uniting Church
The Uniting Church is closing churches, right? Well, actually, there’s also some church planting by evangelical groups in the Uniting Church, sometimes into old Uniting church buildings that have seen better days. Kurralta Park, an inner suburb of Adelaide, might… Continue Reading
Peter Dutton, Rehoboam, Jeroboam, Kanishka Raffel and ‘the voice’
An Obadiah Slope column. Obadiah is curious to know if Peter Dutton was away the week they studied 1 Kings or 2 Chronicles at his alma mater, St Paul’s Anglican School, Bald Hills. But Dutton would have learned a valuable… Continue Reading
The medical evidence for teen gender transition is weak
“Worryingly weak” is how the socially liberal Economist magazine describes the medical evidence for teen gender transitions. While America’s medical authorities support the “gender affirming care” system pioneered in the Netherlands, those in Britain, Finland, France, Norway and Sweden have… Continue Reading