Gifts to voluntary Bible classes in schools will remain tax deductible, with the federal government rejecting a Productivity Commission recommendation that would have stripped Religious/Ethics Education in Public Schools from DGR status. Deductible gift recipients (DGR) status means that organisations… Continue Reading
Just a week apart, two of Australia’s theological schools, the School Of Indigenous Studies based in Melbourne and Wontulp-Bi-Buya in Cairns, have been closed by their funding bodies. In a statement titled “Budget Adjustment Advice” about the finances of the… Continue Reading
Dr Jereth Kok, a general practitioner from Melbourne, has been unable to care for his patients during a five-year suspension –which could be permanent, depending on a hearing before the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) late this month. Kok… Continue Reading
Kapow! Karmala Harris took on Donald Trump for her 2020 primary. You could run this ad today.
Obadiah has joined the “Churches in South Australia” Facebook group, where people post pictures of churches. And that’s where the name William Kingsnorth Mallyon came up. He was a bank manager with the National Bank, but as a peripatetic worker,… Continue Reading
Missionary Aviation Fellowship (MAF) pilot Dean Johnson tells the story of his search for the crash site, where his father, Jim Johnson – also a MAF pilot –died when Dean was a baby. On this day, 45 years ago, my… Continue Reading
There’s a common heartbreak for youth ministers – the heartbreak of seeing some young people not continue to follow Jesus. “You pour your life in your discipleship into these young people that they’ll, and hoping and praying that they will… Continue Reading
There have been many, but I can think of some notable examples. There have been many wins, often necessarily kept quiet, but maintaining religious freedom in our nation, I believe, undergirds all other wins. ACL has been, and continues to… Continue Reading
Corey Comperatore (1974 – 2024) a member of the Cabot Global Methodist church in Pennsylvania, and a volunteer firefighter, was hit by aassasin’s bullet that was intended for former President Donald Trump. Comperatore died shielding his wife Helen and daughter Allyson whom… Continue Reading
Reader Peter R. Green remembers a boy called Danny. In around 1957, someone tried to burn down our house. The evidence was a kerosene-soaked (and partly burnt) rag and some dead matches against a charred hardwood stud in the end… Continue Reading