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Sex divides the Australian Church

Posted on 25/04/2024 by John Sandeman
Double minded how sex is dividing the australian church mark durie Detail

The answer to the question “Is sexuality dividing the church in Australia?” is a decided “yes!” for Mark Durie, a Senior Research Fellow at the Melbourne School of Theology. He makes the case in his new book Double Minded: How… Continue Reading →

Book Review, Latest, News Anglicans, Christian news, Presbyterians, Same-sex marriage, Uniting Church

Scott Morrison counts his blessings in a theological memoir

Posted on 02/04/2024 by John Sandeman
Scott Morrison

Scott Morrison is unafraid to add to his daggy suburban dad image. He begins his recently released memoir Plans for Your Good: A Prime Minister’s Testimony of God’s Faithfulness with the story of his family being blessed by their dog,… Continue Reading →

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Fresh thinking about youth ministry

Posted on 28/03/2024 by John Sandeman
Youth

I owe a youth movement called Christian Endeavour a big debt. Because it was at one Sunday meeting of Christian Endeavour that I fist declared myself to be a follower of Jesus Christ. You won’t find Christian Endeavour in many… Continue Reading →

Book Review, Latest, News Christian news, Youth

Surprisingly easy to read – a review of Biblical Critical Theory

Posted on 17/03/2024 by John Sandeman
Biblical Critical Theory image

Peter Bentley’s review of Christopher Watkin’s Biblical Critical Theory: How the Bible’s Unfolding Story Makes Sense of Modern Life and Culture Given the sheer volume of reviews around, I did wonder if I could say anything of use, and up… Continue Reading →

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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 →

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