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Book Excerpt: ‘Taken By Surprise: The Asbury Revival Of 2023’

Posted on 17/09/2023 by Religion Unplugged
Ashbury Revival

Religion Unplugged. It was an ordinary chapel service on Feb. 8, 2023, in Hughes Auditorium at Asbury University. But what happened next was anything but ordinary, taking almost everyone by surprise. While most left for class, some students remained. Several… Continue Reading →

Latest, News Christian news, Methodists, Revival

Wanted: apprentice ministers for Melbourne (and everywhere else)

Posted on 16/09/2023 by John Sandeman
Melbourne

James Hoey has a vision for Melbourne. “We’ve got a 5 million person city with many empty churches and empty parishes that we just need more people to proclaim the gospel,” he tells The Other Cheek. So he’s taking a… Continue Reading →

Latest, News Christian news, Ministers

Increase in abortions since conservative ‘victory’ on Roe V Wade

Posted on 15/09/2023 by John Sandeman
Restore Roe campaign

There has been an increased number of abortions in the United States since the overturning of the Roe v Wade ruling claiming abortion was a right protected by the US Constitution. In the first six months of 2020, before the… Continue Reading →

Latest, News Abortion, Christian news, United States
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Saving the white church on the mountain

Posted on 14/09/2023 by John Sandeman
MM Union Church - 2023-4

Mangrove Mountain, a small community in the NSW Central Coast hinterland, still has a church thanks to a bunch of Christians and atheists who banded together to save the “little white church at Mangrove Mountain.” Their Union church has been… Continue Reading →

Latest, News Anglicans, Christian news, Uniting Church

Figures show a gentle decline in Sydney Anglicans’ attendance plus three letter-writing campaigns and a call to support the Voice

Posted on 13/09/2023 by John Sandeman
Sydney Anglican Logo

In a quiet corner away from the hall where the Sydney Anglican Synod is taking place, a sheet of paper attached to the noticeboard contained disturbing news. A gentle decline in attendance figures is shown in a table compiled in… Continue Reading →

Latest, News Anglicans, Christian news, First nations

Three Indigenous leaders address the Sydney Anglican Synod on reconciliation and the Voice

Posted on 12/09/2023 by John Sandeman
Sydney Anglican Logo

An Obadiah Slope column Archbishop Kanishka Raffel asked three indigenous leaders, Larissa Minniecon, a Synod member from St John’s Glebe; Naville Naden, Indigenous Ministry Officer of Bush Church Aid; and Michael Duckett, pastor of Macarthur Anglican Church, to address the… Continue Reading →

Latest, News Anglicans, Christian news, First nations
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Acknowledgement Prayer opens Sydney Anglican Synod

Posted on 11/09/2023 by John Sandeman
Sydney Anglican Logo

After an opening hymn, Praise my Soul the King of Heaven, Michael Duckett, pastor of Macarthur Indigenous Church, led the Sydney Anglican Synod Opening Service in the Cathedral with a Prayer of Acknowledgement. “Our Lord and loving heavenly Father, we… Continue Reading →

Latest, News Anglicans, Christian news, First nations

Male led, Presbyterians work on hearing the voices of women

Posted on 10/09/2023 by John Sandeman
Presbyterian logo

The very male General Assembly of Australia (GAA), the peak body of the Presbyterian Church of Australia (PCA), received a report on how the church can listen more carefully to the voices of women at its meeting in Hurstville in… Continue Reading →

Latest, News Christian news, complementarianism, Presbyterians

The Anglican Marks of Mission and the Voice to Parliament

Posted on 09/09/2023 by Peter Sandeman
Three flags of Australia

Opinion: On The Other Cheek, we welcome “the other twin,” Peter Sandeman writing on the Voice. He is Canon for Social Justice in the diocese of Adelaide. Now that the referendum is approaching and the contending arguments have been coloured… Continue Reading →

Latest, News, Opinion Anglicans, Christian news, First nations, The Voice
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Awkward facts about ‘Sound of Freedom’ movie

Posted on 08/09/2023 by John Sandeman
Sound of freedom promo

Lauded as the latest Christian blockbuster movie, Sound Of Freedom was claimed to be the number two movie in Australia last weekend by some enthusiastic supporters. After who wouldn’t want to see an action-packed Christian movie based on a true… Continue Reading →

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