A Finnish study following up the cohort of transgender referred adolescents between 1996 and 2019, against matched controls, “showed significantly higher psychiatric morbidity.” The study “Psychiatric Morbidity Among Adolescents and Young Adults Who Contacted Specialised Gender Identity Services in Finland… Continue Reading
Geoff Folland In the first article, I argued that Australia’s most effective outreach was never really about the stadium. In the second, I suggested that campaigns still matter — not because they replace relationships, but because they activate them. That… Continue Reading
Geoff Folland In the first article, I argued that Australia’s most effective outreach was never really about the stadium. The stadium functioned as a signal. The real work happened locally. That raises a reasonable leadership question: If evangelism is fundamentally… Continue Reading
Sydney Anglican Archbishop Kanishka Raffel Jesus came and stood among them and said, ‘Peace be with you!’ After he said this he showed themhis hands and side. The disciples were overjoyed when they saw the Lord. (NIV)John 20:19b-20One of the… Continue Reading
From C.S. Lewis’ 1963 Essay The Seeing Eye in the book Christian Reflections. The Russians, I am told, report that they have not found God in outer space… Looking for God—or Heaven—by exploring space is like reading or seeing all… Continue Reading
We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. 23 Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship,… Continue Reading
Queenslander and Christian war protester, Margie Pestorius, is in Melbourne/Naarm, and she sent The Other Cheek details of the action she is associated with. Her’s is a Christian voice not often heard, but The Other Cheek believes it should be… Continue Reading
Finnish MP Päivi Räsänen responds to the Finnish Supreme Court finding that a church pamphlet she co-wrote in 2004 was hate speech against gay people. The Supreme Court has today, 26 March 2026, issued its decision in a freedom of… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope column To the Newcastle Writers’ Festival, where The Mushroom Tapes authors Helen Garner, Chloe Hooper, and Sarah Krasnostein show a respect for the Baptist beliefs of the victim families in the Erin Patterson case. With a generally… Continue Reading
OPINION “Shield the joyous” is a line from an Anglican version of the ancient office of Compline. Compline is a service that marks the end of the working day, with quiet prayer. And the “shield the joyous” line calls for… Continue Reading