The long-time lead pastor at the multi-campus Inspire church, John McMartin has been sentenced to an intensive corrections order with 120 hours of community service. A breach of the order could land him in prison with a 16 months sentence… Continue Reading
Mark Latham got cancelled last night by a group that came out to demonstrate in support of him. An election meeting at St. Michaels Church in Belfield, in inner southwestern Sydney, was closed by the police after 500 back-clad counter-demonstrators… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope column In the rubble: Missionaries have come to have a unique role in the earthquake zone. When relief teams from other nations arrive to give aid in the earthquake zone – they can’t speak the language. That’s… Continue Reading
Gathered Together, a new book by SMBC lecturer and long-time pastor Karl Deenick is dedicated to the idea that church is where Christians should want to be. Yet with some surveys showing a good chunk of church members are not… Continue Reading
The key revelation in the Hillsong papers tabled by the member for Clark, Andrew Wilkie, might be the disclosure of details of what visiting big-name preachers have been paid. The papers lift the lid on the exclusive club of celebrity… Continue Reading
Questioning Christianity’s Dan Paterson has produced short videos for Easter that are open for anyone to share. Questioning Christianity is an Australian apologetics ministry based in Queensland that is building up a library of videos aimed at the curious outsider,… Continue Reading
Graham Stanton, a key researcher on youthwork, describes how churches can lower the dropout rate many of us experience. “If the church doesn’t listen, the church can’t understand. When young people realise they aren’t understood, church becomes a place where… Continue Reading
Count them: at least four conservative Christian groups are standing against each other in the NSW Upper House. Obadiah thinks that whether you are a fan of conservative Christian parties or not, this is quite striking, The four were all… Continue Reading
Peter Jensen did not just teach his students what to think but how to think. That’s the description given by Mark Thompson, the current Principal of Sydney’s Moore College. How Jensen produced a generation of thinkers has become a book,… Continue Reading
It’s not fair! “When my brother gets into trouble, but I don’t,” says one girl. “My brother has a big chocolate easter egg, and I can’t have any of it”, says a younger girl “When my siblings blame me for… Continue Reading