One of the three authors of a new book, The Gender Revolution, Presbyterian Minister Kamal Weerakoon, was asked at the book launch why write a book on transgender, a difficult, complicated subject. Kamal Weerakoon replied that for all three of… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope column Crumbs: Spotted in Bondi, the cockatoos being fed, and the pigeons gathering below for the crumbs. Is this a case of “Even the dogs pigeons eat the crumbs that fall from their master’s the cockie’s table?”… Continue Reading
You’ll know what I mean when I tell you about it: pick a social issue from mental health to agriculture. the ABC will have tackled the issue by finding an individual case study and telling the story through their voice.… Continue Reading
Matt Redman, a songwriter and worship leader best known for 10,000 reasons (Bless the Lord) has issued a public 500-word Facebook post revealing that he suffered from abuse when at Soul Survivor church in Watford outside London. “I have spent… Continue Reading
Seek, a new book, not the employment website, comes with a subhead that promises “Real world questions / Real world answers.” That’s exactly what the author David Robertson, a Scott currently serving in the Sydney Anglican diocese, provides – he… Continue Reading
The main thing that Gladesville in Sydney and Glenorchy on the northern edge of Hobart have in common is alliteration. G-L-. And a need for gospel ministry. Prompted by someone at Bible College planting the idea of ministry in Tasmania,… Continue Reading
The Anglicans of Armidale elected an evangelical bishop in 1964, a move led by John Chapman, best known as Sydney Anglican’s evangelist. The Professor of History at the University of New England, Thomas Fudge, gave a public lecture on the… Continue Reading
The Other Cheek gets strong encouragement about the future of country churches from leaders of regional dioceses. A comment on The Other Cheek: “Last Sunday my wife and I attended an Anglican Church Service in a Central Queensland town. Very… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope column Look, up in the sky: You finally get a chance to catch up with Obadiah – if you live in Sydney. Not to meet up, but to finally catch a great musical that Obadiah saw on… Continue Reading
By Anne Stych The artificial intelligence arm of Facebook parent company Meta has turned to widely translated religious texts like the Bible to provide data for its Massively Multilingual Speech project, which aims to expand text-to-speech and speech-to-text technology to… Continue Reading