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Doing More than Maintaining the Faith

Posted on 06/02/2024 by Peter Bentley
Keeping Faith image

By Peter Bentley A Review of Keeping Faith: How Christian Organisations Can Stay True to the Way of Jesus (2023) by Stephen Judd, John Swinton, Kara Martin. One could think this is a perennial topic, but it has only had… Continue Reading →

Book Review, Latest, News Charities, Christian news, Religious Freedom

Raising Tech-Healthy Humans

Posted on 27/12/2023 by John Sandeman
Raising Teach-Healthy Humans

BOOK REVIEW by Penny Reeve Raising Tech-healthy Humans was a well-deserving shortlisted book in this year’s Australian Christian Book of the Year. Written by productivity consultant Daniel Sih, this book encourages families to pre-empt the screen/tech balance before things get… Continue Reading →

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How a new identity-focused ideology has trapped the left and undermined social justice

Posted on 26/11/2023 by John Sandeman
The Identity Trap

Fizkes/Shutterstock Hugh Breakey, Griffith University Yasha Mounk’s new book, The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time, explores a radical progressive ideology that has been taking the world by storm. From its unlikely beginnings in esoteric… Continue Reading →

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Oh Hell! Do people really go there? How long do they stay?

Posted on 08/10/2023 by John Sandeman

Most Christians are more concerned with heaven and the narrow path to get there, but what of the broad path that Jesus told us leads to destruction? (Matthew 7:13-14 KJV) What “destruction” means is at the centre of what the… Continue Reading →

Book Review, Latest, News Christian news, Hell.

Why not-yet-Christians can’t hear our message

Posted on 04/08/2023 by John Sandeman
David Rietveld launches Being Christian After Christendom

Launching his book “Being Christian After Christendom” Rietveld explained that one effect of the radical change in the social landscape after the fall of Christendom – the time when Christian assumptions pervaded society – has been to make Christianity less… Continue Reading →

Book Review, Latest, News Christian news, evangelism, Philosophy

Freeing people to be themselves

Posted on 03/08/2023 by John Sandeman
A Willing Spirit

“Freeing men and women to be who they were created to be” is how Marty Woods describes his 50 years of mentoring mostly young men, a form of ministry that has grown hundreds of disciples who make other disciples. Woods,… Continue Reading →

Book Review, Latest, News Christian life, Christian news, evangelism

Seek – a book of answers that will make you think

Posted on 14/07/2023 by John Sandeman
Seek book

Seek, a new book, not the employment website, comes with a subhead that promises “Real world questions / Real world answers.” That’s exactly what the author David Robertson, a Scott currently serving in the Sydney Anglican diocese, provides – he… Continue Reading →

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Amy Brown, who lost her job in the Barilaro scandal, on navigating life’s catastrophe

Posted on 01/06/2023 by John Sandeman
Sydney Prayer Breakfast

A very practical application for prayer in a time of crisis was recounted by Amy Brown, who lost her job as a result of the attempt by National Party leader John Barilaro get a top job as trade commissioner for… Continue Reading →

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Religious leaders warmly respond to the Uluru Statement

Posted on 10/04/2023 by John Sandeman

A new book, Statements from the Soul, gathers essays that read as cries from the heart from religious leaders who back a positive response to the Uluru Statement from the Heart, including Indigenous Voice in some fo… Notable essays for… Continue Reading →

Book Review, Latest, News Christian news, First nations

‘I had not read devotions like this before’

Posted on 27/03/2023 by Penny Reeve

Children’s book author Penny Reeve reviews A carer’s devotional journal: for carers of kids from tough places’ which like the name implies applies scripture to the lives of people whose lives are far from trouble free. If you’ve ever read… Continue Reading →

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