A consultation paper from the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) recommends the removal of exemptions in the Sex Discrimination Act that some Christian schools have relied on for staffing and rules for students. Attorney General Mark Dreyfus is running a… Continue Reading
New Beginnings Church in Mandurah, Western Australia, is the first church in the new Diocese of the Southern Cross, (formed as a home for conservative Anglicans) to have a woman minister. The Revd Linley MatthewsWant was licensed as pastor by… Continue Reading
My twin received an AM, becoming a Member of the Order of Australia this week. It is worth discussing why. It was on April 15, 1971, at an event denounced by the crusty conservatives of our state upper house that… Continue Reading
Before You Lose Your Faith from The Gospel Coalition tackles a burning issue – the “deconstruction” of faith. Deconstruction is the pulling apart and examination of an object, an idea, or faith. And sometimes, as editor Ivan Mesa points out,… Continue Reading
Byron and Keira Hordyk (pictured) have won a case of religious discrimination after a welfare agency rejected the Christian couple as “unsafe” to foster 0-5-year-old children because of their Christian beliefs on sexuality and gender. John Steenhof, principal layer for… Continue Reading
“Claims of the Aborigines,” preached by Rev John Saunders in the Bathurst Street Baptist Church, Sydney, on 14 October 1838. John Saunders is regarded as the effective founder of the Australian Baptist movement.The Myall Creek massacre, the killing of at least twenty-eight… Continue Reading
Melbourne’s largest Pentecostal church, Planetshakers, has planted a local campus in the heart of Sydney’s North, on the Macquarie university campus. After six months, it has attracted a core group of several hundred attendees. Planetshakers and another large Pentecostal church… Continue Reading
In a sermon for Aboriginal Sunday (a name for the Sunday before January 26), Kanishka Raffel, the Anglican Archbishop of Sydney, honoured the work of William Cooper, a Christian First Nations man who called the Aboriginal people to observe a… Continue Reading
While the Sydney Anglican Synod voted last year urging that “church members to give generous consideration to the case to vote ‘Yes’ to the referendum question of whether the Constitution should establish a First Nations Voice, once the details have… Continue Reading
Picking a successor, maintaining integrity, mental health, women’s ordination and dealing with grief By Warren Cole Smith of Ministry Watch via Religion Unplugged For most people who have been around evangelicalism over the past 40 years, Rick Warren needs no… Continue Reading