Government statistics on grooming gangs in the UK, the Complex and Organised Child Abuse Dataset published in 2023, which identified around 700 recorded offences of group-based child sexual exploitation, “is highly unlikely to reflect the true scale of the issue,” according… Continue Reading
The Liberal: Jonathan Clatworthy (pictured) is an English priest who formerly headed the main advocate for liberal theology in the Church of England, “Modern Church.” A recent post, The Word of God and the proposals of humans, struck Obadiah Slope as offering an insight into the… Continue Reading
Actually, there were two priests and a rabbi in the pub, but the rabbi more than held his own. Technically, there was one pastor, Barak Pauls from Hillsong Bondi, one rabbi, Rafi Kaiserblueth from Emanuel Synagogue, and a Uniting church… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope Column A great interview – or was it a conversation – between David Marr and Helen Garner on ABC’s treasured Radio National’s Late Night Live. The topic, the Erin Patterson murder trial, lends itself to discussing religion, and… Continue Reading
Following up The Other Cheek’s coverage of the sale of churches in Adelaide’s North, and a decline in the attendance in the diocese, Bishop Tim Harris engaged us in discussion and agreed to follow up. In a crucial comment on… Continue Reading
Australia has had a problem with the one-sided non-reporting of the lives of people identifying as transgender by many media outlets. In the wake of the BBC crisis over its reporting of Trump’s January 6 speech, Mediawatch examined three reporting… Continue Reading
Vale Warwick Hood Olson AM (1936 – 2025) There are only a few Australian Christians who have impacted global organisations. Even fewer have massively changed three of them and created a household name in Australia as well. Warwick Olsen crammed… Continue Reading
The Christian youth-based charity Fusion is selling its town. Poatina, 60 km south of Launceston, Tasmania, borders the Great Western Tier Conservation Area. Poatina Village has been the ultimate company town, constructed in the 1960s to house the workforce of… Continue Reading
The Other Cheek often notes how slippery the term “religious leaders” can be when applied to a political statement – usually used to imply widespread support or opposition among Christian or other faiths. Sometimes it is just a bunch of… Continue Reading
“The modern push for women’s ordination did not emerge from careful biblical exegesis or development of doctrine within the Christian Tradition. Rather, it emerged from second-wave feminism, which itself borrowed heavily from Marxist ideology.” That’s a quote from a writer, Venerable… Continue Reading