Does Australia’s most conservative state need an extra conservative party? After all, it has One Nation and Katter’s Australian Party (KAP), both with a history of scoring seats in the state’s unicameral party. That’s the test facing Family First (FFP),… Continue Reading
The Other Cheek asked several Australians who took part in the gathering of 5,000 evangelicals at the Lausanne Conference in Seoul, South Korea to reflect on what they learned there. The Lausanne Movement aims to connect influencers and ideas for global mission.… Continue Reading
“Why write love poetry in a burning world?” Tim Winton began his Richard Johnson lecture in Sydney this week. The lecture presented by the Centre for Public Christianity (CPX) sold out the Concourse Concert Hall in Chatswood. Winton quoted the… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope column A mob of deists? Could the recent ARC (Alliance for Responsible Citizenship) Sydney conference, which featured John Howard and Tony Abbott and was headlined by Jordan Peterson, be just a warmed-up Rotary or Lions club? This… Continue Reading
Open Door reports. Extremists believed to be Boko Haram insurgents have released a graphic video depicting the beheading of four people abducted from Nigeria’s northeastern Borno State. This latest attack comes as authorities in Nigeria are resettling people who fled… Continue Reading
When Yulia, the mother of Staff Sergeant David Bogdanovsky who died in Gaza serving in the Israeli army visited his grave, she found his headstone had been covered. “Today, as I do every day, I visited Davidushka to light a… Continue Reading
A statement from Uphold, a non-profit, says it is “providing support for Gospel Workers who have been mistreated, abused or unfairly dismissed.” Sydney Anglican Synod passes groundbreaking motion into NDAs With over 600 parishes, organisations and schools under the umbrella… Continue Reading
86 members of the family of German WWII martyr theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer have issued a protest against the co-option of his name in the work of US-based controversial evangelical writer Eric Metaxas and political campaigners. A quick backgrounder on Bonhoeffer… Continue Reading
(From a report by Alliance Defending Freedom) A man charged for praying silently in an abortion “buffer zone” in Bournemouth, a town on the south coast of England, has been found guilty in a shock ruling from Bournemouth Magistrates’ Court. … Continue Reading
Simon Camilleri, who has trekked around Australian capital cities to read and recite the Bible, has produced a new book introducing children to prayers. It is literally a prayer book. And the sort of prayers are listed on the title,… Continue Reading