Four decades after the alarm was first raised, systematic abuse by a leader in the centre of a Church of England conservative evangelical network has been fully revealed in an official report. The Makin report into John Smyth QC (1941-2018),… Continue Reading
Terry Mattingly via Religion Unplugged (ANALYSIS) Forget the opinions of newspaper czars. The question many voters needed to know in this feverish White House race was simple: Who did Hell endorse? Writing in the style of “The Screwtape Letters” by… Continue Reading
Today the comment threads on my feeds have bifurcated – with strings of horror and chains of celebration according to people’s polical preferences. Or maybe your threads lean mostly or competely one way. We all have different webs on connection… Continue Reading
Barak Gurung journeyed from from Buddha to Jesus. Faithful persistence by his daughter helped Gurung find the way. “I’ve a Nepalese background. 90% of the population is Hindu, so they believe in Hindu, God and God. They have 33 million gods.… Continue Reading
The Other Cheek can’t even find a hint of where Anglican Minister Geoff Robson leans politically from this prayer about the US election. Which means it is a prayer we can all use. Father, I praise you as the sovereign… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope column All the jazz: Obadiah’s district has been the site of a jazz boomlet, with live jazz or blues at Miss Celies – a bar, and regular gigs in the Polish club and the Catholic club. So… Continue Reading
Charles Brammall tells the story of a niche ministry – ENTER, the Entertainment Bible Ministry – Reaching Sydney’s Entertainment Industry for Jesus Entertainment people can be prone to emotional fragility, and struggle with Mental Health issues. In my time with… Continue Reading
I was an accidental manager. I started out as a journalist but quickly became involved in bringing design to the Sydney Morning Herald under the eye of that paper’s best Editor, Eric Beecher, now chair of the company that runs… Continue Reading
Who would have thought a book with the formidable title Modern Genre Theory: An Introduction for Biblical Studies could be readable and even funny? And, importantly, help us – and face it, ministers, read the Bible. Author Andrew Judd, lecturer… Continue Reading
When award-winning author Naomi Reed finished her last but one book, Time of Hope, which is, in her words, “a devotional book trying to capture this week of the Bible from Genesis to Revelation”, she felt indeed finished. She added,… Continue Reading