New York Times columnist David French has been canceled by the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA), a denomination rather like our own PCA, the Presbyterian Church of Australia. A seminar featuring French has been dropped from their PCA General assembly,… Continue Reading
Travelling North from Sydney towards Queensland, the Inland route by train or car takes you through Armidale, seat of the evangelical diocese of the same name, and the coastal route takes you through Grafton, the cathedral city of a progressive… Continue Reading
The Health Ministry in Gaza is claiming 35,091 people have been killed in the territory during more than seven months of war between Israel and Hamas as of May 13. The Health Ministry is run by Hamas, which is listed… Continue Reading
Charles Brammall on Sexual Energy A great one who trained my (all-male) cohort in ministry once said a sage thing to us: “Never stop making love with your wife, even as you age. It’ll have a disproportionately positive effect on… Continue Reading
This is not likely to be reported, Simon Gillham, Vice Principal of Moore College said during a talk he gave at the college’s open night last week. “I can see a few people with cameras around the newspapers haven’t got… Continue Reading
Richard Ostling via Religion Unplugged (ANALYSIS) Making history last week, delegates at a United Methodist Church General Conference in Charlotte agreed to allow same-sex clergy and marriages. Each UMC conference the past 52 years had upheld centuries-old heterosexual restrictions, most… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope column Let’s hear it for evensong: It was a busy evening – evensong for ascension day in the cathedral, then onto a play – that turned out to be a study of contrast.At Evensong, we prayed for a… Continue Reading
Church leaders faced intense questions at Victoria’s Yoorrook Justice Inquiry’s “Share Land, Sky and Water hearings” into First Nations’ dispossession. This truth-telling commission is the first major governmental response since the Voice referendum. The church leaders who appeared before the… Continue Reading
Today is Ascension Day, so named because Jesus has ascended—that is, he has gone up to live with his Father in heaven. As the Bible puts it, Jesus was speaking with the apostles when “he was taken up before their very… Continue Reading
Filling the vacuum left by the demise of the Christian Democratic Party in NSW, Lyle Shelton, former head of the Australian Christian Lobby, has announced that he will head the Family First Ticket for NSW. The Party has achieved registration… Continue Reading