An Open Letter calling for Bipartisan Poker Machine Reform in NSW. From: Stu Cameron, CEO and Superintendent, Wesley Mission and Sandy Grant, Anglican Dean of Sydney To: The Hon. Dominic Perrottet, MP, Premier of NSW, The Hon. Chris Minns, MP,… Continue Reading
Conservative Christianity is unpopular says Martyn Percy. He’s right, but Jesus predicted unpopularity, didn’t he? Martyn Percy was responding on Thinking Anglicans to my piece “Martyn Percy takes on Sydney Anglicanism” https://theothercheek.com.au/martyn-percy-takes-on-sydney-anglicanism/ My further response is below. Martyn Percy in… Continue Reading
The new King, Charles III has walked back a statement that troubled many Christians. Rather than be the defender of the faith – a title Defensor Fidei – that dates back to Henry VIII even before he defected from Catholicism,… Continue Reading
Paul Clark on being an evangelical who wants to stay IN the Uniting Church. Not a year seems to go by without the Uniting Church becoming the punching bag of conservatives for seemingly weird or heretical positions taken on an… Continue Reading
Martyn Percy, eminent English Academic and until recently Dean of Christ Church, Oxford has written a severe profile of Sydney Anglicanism. “In terms of character, the muscular, masculine Victorian- Edwardian Christianity comes through at every level, Percy writes of Sydney… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope column I love the word “radiance” It used of Jesus just once in the Bible. “The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word.… Continue Reading
A “Future Directions for the People of God” proposal to the 2021 Synod of the Uniting Church NSW/ACT gives the church attendance figure of 21,000. (The Synod wants to increase it to 30,000) The NSW and ACT are a third… Continue Reading
Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury preached this sermon at the funeral for Queen Elizabeth 2. The pattern for many leaders is to be exalted in life and forgotten after death. The pattern for all who serve God – famous or… Continue Reading
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Sydney Anglicans’ church parliament, the Synod, has apologised for “past failures in relationships with this nation’s First Peoples” and urges reconciliation through every church developing an Action Plan. These plans should “note the challenges provided” in “Australia – whose land?… Continue Reading