Despite their General Synod (Church parliament) voting against Women’s Ordination five times, the Lutheran Church of Australia and New Zealand is working on a proposal that could mean they become one church with two ordination practices in 2024 to 2027.… Continue Reading
Charles Brammall’s column What I Learned by Making Every Mistake in the Book as A Christian When I was being trained in ministry, I visited a lovely elderly chap who I will call Gwynn, a retired British Army colonel. His home… Continue Reading
The Australian’s Greg Sheridan has been proving himself a great writer about Christianity, but his recent piece declaring Canadian Psychologist and academic Jordan Peterson to be a Christian is likely a clanger. Reporting from the recent major gathering of conservative… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope Column A tip of the hat to Jeannine Baird ### Babylon, babble on: When Obadiah reported the comments of apologist Max Jeganathan on “Babylon” at this week’s Freedom For Faith conference, it seemed to Obadiah that he… Continue Reading
Kel Richards, author, radio personality and more recently a Spectator columnist, has a secret identity as a tract – small gospel message leaflet –writer. The Other Cheek thinks he deserves credit, but also publicity for his excellent tracts. The Other… Continue Reading
This is a week of good news for the Diocese of the Southern Cross – a breakaway refuge for evangelical churches in progressive Australian Anglican dioceses (regions). Four new churches are being added to the Diocese of the Southern Cross… Continue Reading
Max Jeganathan, an experienced apologetics speaker returning to Australia to join the Centre for Public Christianity found that there’s a big increase of contempt in our society when he came back. He recalled a line from a Renée Zellweger character… Continue Reading
A speaker at the Freedom for Faith (FFF) national conference this week reported that Christian School principals received death threats for signing a letter about same-sex marriage. “In 2018, Anglican school leaders across Sydney signed a letter relating to our… Continue Reading
What I Learned by Making Every Mistake in the Book as A Christian – a column by Charles Brammall The great Peter Bolt (a Moore College lecturer now with the Sydney College of Divinity) was training me in how to chat… Continue Reading
Stan Grant was part of this year’s lineup at PreachFest, a unique celebration organised by the Uniting Church in NSW/ACT. The three-day festival was “created to inspire and enliven the craft, art and vocation of preaching across churches in Australia.”… Continue Reading