“What is your servant, that you should notice a dead dog like me?” Mephibiboseth, the son of Jonathan and the last of the house of Saul pleads before a victorious King, David. (2 Samuel 9:8) Jonathan and his father, King… Continue Reading
Charles Brammall continues his story of setting up a ministry to entertainers in the leafy Sydney Suburb of Artarmon. North Ryde, where we initially set up church for our ENTER ministry, proved to be too far away for most entertainment… Continue Reading
“Our Christmas Party was not very peaceful,” Scruff the dog tells his friend Michael at the start of a new Christmas video from Quiz Worx, a children’s puppet ministry that tours schools and communities. “We had just finished eating dinner,… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope Column Anglicans so much better at cover-ups: Obadiah set through each day of the Brian Houston case, watching the accusation of cover-up fall apart. Now, having read and summarised the Makin report into the abuse committed by… Continue Reading
When The Other Cheek asked who was the most memorable or challenging speaker at the Lausanne conference of evangelicals held last month in Seoul, South Korea last month the name Sarah Breuel came up time and time again. Sarah Breuel… Continue Reading
So you know that Chris Watkin’s book, Biblical Critical Theory: How the Bible’s Unfolding Story Makes Sense of Modern Life and Culture is a must read but at 605 pages it is a high mountain to climb on your own.… Continue Reading
With help from another niche ministry pioneer, Dominic Steele of Christians in the Media, it’s time for Charles Brammall to launch his new ministry. Dominic Steele graciously helped us launch ourselves as a new, independent mission, “The Entertainment Bible Ministry”… Continue Reading
ANALYSIS Nathan Campbell on how the crazy cost of housing in major cities will hit churches. Campbell was reponding to this Sydney Morning Herald piece https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/fertility-obesity-productivity-the-crazy-cost-of-a-sydney-house-is-not-just-financial-20230221-p5cmcs.html Someone smarter than me should work out the implications of this sort of phenomenon… Continue Reading
ANALYSIS Peter Bentley (A sidebar piece by Nathan Campbell on the effects of housing cost on churches is here How the crazy increase in housing costs affects churches.) Does Australia have a cost-of-living crisis, or it is more a cost… Continue Reading
This is a prayer from Archbishop KanishkaRaffel for International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women – Monday 25th November 2024 Loving God, creator and sustainer of all, you created humankind in your image, female and male you created… Continue Reading