Unselfish praying for Valentine’s Day
Put away the chocolate and redeem the day! These are prayers that celebrate love, not just warmed-up romance and couples.
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Being the one who makes a small group special: ‘love your micro enemies’
Charles Brammall on being a good member of a small group My Commitment to Home Group – Being a good member If you’re married and your spouse is in a home group, encourage but don’t pressure them to attend it… Continue Reading
Would you like Maccabees with that? — I
A guest column by Lance Lawton, an Anglican minister retired to Crookwell. You know all those memes and opinion pieces that have been flooding the internet linking the 2023-4 Gaza war with the second century BC Maccabean revolt? Neither do… Continue Reading
Amalek enters the Israeli Gaza debate. ‘We want the theological debate’ says ABC podcast.
Chas Licciardello who hosts the PEP podcast – an offshoot of the ABC’s Planet America TV show, discussed the Bible story of the Amalekites with Dr David Smith of the University of Sydney US Studies Centre. Licciardello recounts the charges against… Continue Reading
A solution to Anglicare Sydney and the LGBTQIA foster carer court case
The case of “Daisy”, a pseudonym for a nine-month-old girl at the centre of a NSW Children’s Court case reported by The Guardian, puts a spotlight on the place Anglicare Sydney and other Christian agencies have in the welfare system.… Continue Reading
How a ex-Rastafarian’s talk at a Prayer Breakfast ended Boris Johnson’s Prime Ministership
Bishop Graham Kings, a Church of England evangelical leader, is serialising his memoirs in The Living Church, a US-based magazine that straddles the episcopal church and the Breakaway Anglican Church of North America. He’s up to writing about his first… Continue Reading
Doing More than Maintaining the Faith
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
An open letter from a Lutheran breakaway from Adelaide
“To leave the church of my childhood, my youth, and my life thus far is a very serious and painful matter for me—I have served this church as a pastor for 12 years.” writes Adelaide Lutheran pastor Stephen van der… Continue Reading
Stalinism of the right and the left, and Sydney turns Tokyo
An Obadiah Slope column Taylor Swift and the totalitarianism of the right: The Other Cheek can’t bear to be the only part of the internet, not to mention Taylor Swift. So Obadiah will oblige, pointing to the deluge of conspiracy… Continue Reading
On Religion: Life Inside The ‘God Made Trump’ Matrix
God endorsed Trump, according to this video that was shared by the man himself. If you can’t bear to watch the video here is the text: On June 14th, 1946, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, I… Continue Reading